In the VF pantheon, no one has documented black-and-white nightlife quite like British lensman Dafydd Jones. In his new book, England: The Last Hurrah, he hails—and skewers—Thatcher-era Britannia. 📸: Dafydd Jones 🔗:
, attests, Jones, in the Thatcher ’80s, turned an unblinking, gimlet eye on the nocturnal proclivities of the UK’s upper class, from newbietyros to the so-called Bright Young Things. Indeed, on many a blurry evening, it was Jones alone who kept his focus, and, by dawn, he was often the last man or woman standing, camera in hand.
With the empire mired in deep Brexit doldrums, perhaps a nostalgic dose of time travel is in order. Please, have a gander atQueen Elizabeth II, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1983.Wedding guests at the marriage of Charles Fraser and Lucy Pearson, in Cowdray Park, West Sussex, 1988.By Dafydd Jones. Elizabeth Pulford being fed cotton candy at the Cambridge University Charity Ball in Guildhall, London, 1985.Guests dancing in a pond at the marriage of Ari Campbell-Mcnair-Wilson and Nick Ashley, Hampshire, 1984.By Dafydd Jones.At the Bobbin Ball, Sarah Gladders rides on the shoulders of William Verker while Juliette Aurthur sits atop Andrew Marsden, in the Empire Rooms, London, 1983.
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