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Contents:

• JOHN GAY
• JOHN GAY RETROSPECTIVE
• JOHN GAY
• DR. JOHN GAY, FOUNR AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATNAL RILIENCY CENTER CREATED AS A ROURCE FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY THE AURORA THEATER SHOOTG.
• JOHN GAY: LONDON PTURED THROUGH A LENS
• JOHN GAY OBUARY
• ENGLAND OBSERVED: JOHN GAY (1909 - 99)
• JOHN GAY

JOHN GAY

As the sun beats down on , seems like a good time to choose a llectn that particularly evok the perfect summer idyll of mid-century England, as ptured through the mera of John Gay (1909-1999). Like many photographers begng to work the 1930s and '40s, John Gay was part of a creative German diaspora who chose to move to, and fe reers , Bra followg Hler's rise to power.

JOHN GAY RETROSPECTIVE

Gay's extensive photography llectn to via our reprentatn of the Historic England archive, where his visn of this untry through s archecture, towns, villag and people feels tly at home. Wherever he poted his mera, Gay was apt at pturg the very sence of England; om still, sleepy villag to thedral-like railway statns; Cornish fishg boats to Chelsea Flower Show; a btlg Blackpool beach to the wdow of a village ke shop, wh the nos of children prsed upon . Bat, yet Gay's skilful e of light and shadow, and his crisp executn prevents his imag scendg to sentimentaly, pl there are many other imag documentg multi-faceted London and morn archectural velopments of the perd.

Summer and wter, ra or she, ral and urban, north and south; John Gay's elegant photographs are a movg love letter to Bra's social and archectural past. Click here for an eded selectn om the 5000 John Gay imag we have onle. John Gay, (born June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.

JOHN GAY

A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was ted at the ee grammar school Barnstaple. Gay’s journalistic terts are clearly seen a pamphlet, The Prent State of W (1711), a survey of ntemporary perdil publitns.

It is such lite probg of the surface of social life that Gay excels.

Gay was a member, together wh Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Arbuthnot, of the Scribles Club, a lerary group that aimed to ridicule pedantry. The iends ntributed to two of Gay’s satiril plays: The What D’ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717) most succsful play was The Beggar’s Opera, produced London on Jan.

DR. JOHN GAY, FOUNR AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATNAL RILIENCY CENTER CREATED AS A ROURCE FOR THOSE AFFECTED BY THE AURORA THEATER SHOOTG.

“Hont” John Gay lost most of his money through disastro vtment South Sea stock, but he nohels left £6, 000 when he died. 29 January 2009: For 60 years, photographer John Gay ptured the reali of daily English life. Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay.

Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to apprentice as a draper stead. By 1714, Gay had started rrpondg wh Alexanr Pope and bee a member of the Scribles Club, a group that clud Jonathan Swift, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Parnell, and Lord Oxford. Gay’s publitns datg om this time clu the poems Trivia: Or, the Art of Walkg the Streets of London (1716) and The Shepherd’s Week (1714).

JOHN GAY: LONDON PTURED THROUGH A LENS

The Scribles Club fluenced Gay’s major plays of this perd, The What D’Ye Call It (1715) and Three Hours After Marriage (1717), which was equently lked to Pope. Gay was more or ls pennt on patronage his whole life and lived var semi-employed stat wh a number of aristocrats.

Though relyg on the generosy of patrons such as the Duchs of Queensberry, Gay also earned money om his plays, pecially The Beggar’s Opera (1728), which enjoyed unprecented succs. Allegedly satirizg then-prime mister Sir Robert Walpole, Gay’s play gaed notoriety and ma stagg s sequel, Polly, impossible until 1777.

The Beggar’s Opera was some ways the culmatn of Gay’s reer.

JOHN GAY OBUARY

Pope was a pallbearer and ntributed an epaph to Gay’s memorial. Above are Gay’s own words: “Life is a jt; and all thgs show / I thought so once; but now I know . Poems by John Gay.

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ENGLAND OBSERVED: JOHN GAY (1909 - 99)

John Gay, Founr and Executive Director of the Natnal Riliency Center created as a rource for those affected by the Aurora Theater, CO - MARCH 8: Dr. John Gay pos for a portra at his home on March 8, 2017 Aurora, Colorado. Gay is the founr and executive director of the Natnal Riliency Center that was created the aftermath of the Aurora Theater shootg as a rource to other muni alg wh mass shootgs.

00DETAILSRtrictns:Contact your lol office for all mercial or promotnal created:March 08, 2017Object name:Natnal-Riliency-Center-Dr-John-Gay-Founr_2HR0708Max file size:4176 x 2784 px (13. 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.

JOHN GAY

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. I was given a brand new py of Gay's magil London's Historic Railways Statns (1972) wrten by John Betjeman.

Perhaps Gay's perspective was so particular bee he was not origally om this untry.