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She photographed everyone from John Lennon to Cilla Black

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Bette Davis, Winston Churchill, The Beatles. Just a few of the many famous faces captured on film with understated drama by photographer Jane Bown during her time at The Observer .

This gentle, no-frills doc eschews music to let the images do the talking – Bown’s striking snaps are the real stars.

Through interviews with a frail-looking Bown (she’s now 89), we’re also given insight into her fascinating personal history, which suggests just why she was so good at capturing people at their most vulnerable and interesting.

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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.  

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