<p>From childhood Jonathan Glancey has been fascated by the work John Gay, the German-born photographer whose objective eye ught the spir of London and a untry transn</p>
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JOHN GAY: LONDON PTURED THROUGH A LENS
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Shortly before he died 1999, the photographer John Gay sent me a pair of prts he'd taken of Le Corbier's pilgrimage chapel at Ronchamp the Hte-Saône.
This send shot is both funny and movg: funny bee om some aspects the chapel do remble an outsized wimple; movg bee is also a eply spirual buildg, and the nun Gay's picture nveys a sense of serene spirualy. Both pictur are black-and-whe – Gay never shot lour – and I'm lookg at them while I wre this my study at photographs mean a lot to me, as om early childhood I'd been ptivated by Gay's work. Gay was rerdg a way of life that was vanishg almost as fast as he uld prs the shutter releas of his large-format meras.
JOHN GAY RETROSPECTIVE
I was given a brand new py of Gay's magil London's Historic Railways Statns (1972) wrten by John Betjeman.
APRIL : THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF JOHN GAY
Perhaps Gay's perspective was so particular bee he was not origally om this untry.
Gay was born Hans Gohler, Karlshe, southwt Germany, 1909.
Upon arrivg England, he took an adopted name om the 18th-century poser John Gay, most famo for his Beggar's Opera, a wickedly satiril portra of polil and social rptn.