New York: High Life, Low Life
Dafydd Jones made his name photographing Oxbridge swells and debutante balls in the 1980s. Looking back, their fresh faces seem strangely dated, their taffeta and askew bow ties as distant as 1920s Flapper parties. Yet this celebrated lensman with impeccable manners (a million miles from the jostling paparazzi) was the photographic zeitgeist of the times.
Now we have his New York years, the early 1990s,; the parties Jones covered would give you heartburn. There were galas and louche openings, guest lists including the likes of ‘The Donald’ and Jeffrey Epstein, wealth and ‘glamour’. His pictures make you feel as if you were there and rather glad you weren’t.
