Silver gelatin print of a Mildred Grant Rose by Charles Jones

Charles Harry Jones (1866-November 15 1959) was a gardener and photographer, noted for his still lifes of fruit and vegetables. 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... A gardener is any person involved in the growing and maintenance of plants, notably in a garden. ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... A still life is a work of art which represents a subject composed of inanimate objects. ...

Born in Wolverhampton, Charles Jones became a gardener working on a number of private estates in England from the 1890s. His gardening was noted for the quality of his flowerbeds and cultivation of fruits and vegetables. As a photographer, Jones was noted for his documentation of the fruits of his gardening labours. Jones also offered his services as a photographer to other gardeners. Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the English West Midlands, traditionally part of the county of Staffordshire. ...

His work was never exhibited in his lifetime and was largely was unknown (even to his family) until it was discovered by accident in 1981 at an Antiques Market in Bermondsey by Sean Sexton. Since then it has been displayed widely across the world and a monograph The Plant Kingdoms of Charles Jones was published in 1998. Bermondsey is a place in the London Borough of Southwark. ...

His work is reminiscent of that of other photographers such as Edward Weston and Josef Sudek. Edward Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958) was an American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. ... Josef Sudek (March 17, 1896 - September 15, 1976) was a legendary Czech photographer. ...

Bibliography

• The Plant kingdoms of Charles Jones Sean Sexton and Robert Flynn Johnson Thames and Hudson, 1998. ISBN 0-500-54222-8