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James Austin (born 4 June 1940) is an Australian fine-art and architectural photographer. ==Biography== James Lucien Ashurst Austin was born in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest son of Lloyd James Austin (1915–1994) and of Jeanne-Françoise (''née'' Guérin).〔(Professor Lloyd Austin's obituary in the ''Independent'' ).〕 He is the older brother of the late Colin Austin (1941–2010), the scholar of ancient Greek.〔(Colin Austin's obituary in the ''Guardian'' ).〕 After studying architecture and fine art at Jesus College, Cambridge, he continued his education at the Courtauld Institute, London. He then travelled widely in France and Italy as a freelance photographer building up a library of photographs now in use worldwide in art history archives and numerous publications. Among his early clients were the Bollingen Foundation in New York and Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, for whom he provided photographs for twenty volumes of the ''Buildings of England'' series.〔〔The revised second edition of the Lincolnshire volume featured Austin's colour photographs on the cover; in his acknowledgements Nicholas Antram, the book's editor, singled out James Austin "for the professionalism and understanding with which he executed commissions undertaken for this volume" (Pevsner, Nikolaus, and John Harris (). ''Lincolnshire'' London: Penguin ISBN 978-0-14-071027-4, Preface, p. 19).〕 He was Ben Nicholson’s personal photographer for the last ten years of the painter’s life.〔 He went back to work at the Courtauld Institute for twelve years, travelling extensively around Europe to photograph historic architecture and sculpture for the Conway Library at the Courtauld.〔(James Austin's photographs for the Courtauld on line ).〕 On his retirement he transferred his collection of negatives of architectural and sculptural subjects to the Conway Library. He returned to freelance work in 1985, when he was commissioned to take all the photographs for the catalogue of the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection. His career broadened to encompass the photography of fine art. He worked for the National Trust, English Heritage, the Crafts Council, the Tate Gallery, Kettle's Yard in Cambridge and numerous other institutions, architects, artists, craftsmen and collectors.〔〔 He continued working for the Sainsbury collection – on several exhibition catalogues and photographing new acquisitions – right up to his retirement in April 2004, keeping a studio and darkroom at Wysing Arts Centre from 1997 until his retirement. In his review of the book ''Antique Woodworking Tools'' in which James Austin published more than 1,500 photographs, Mark Bridge wrote in ''Antiques Trade Gazette'': "(Austin ) has managed to capture the elusive qualities of balance, texture and patina which make the finest tools a pleasure to handle, frequently lifting them into the realm of folk art".〔Mark Bridge, "The young apprentice cabinetmaker who became a connoisseur", ''Antiques Trade Gazette'', 22 October 2011, p. 19.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Austin (photographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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