Screen Time
Smartphones – almost everyone uses one, and most of us are addicted. In this book, photographer Dafydd Jones shows us just how pervasive our screen addiction has become. His standing as one of the world’s leading social photographers has given him unique access to an extraordinary range of social events – from exclusive parties, to the races, to fashion shows, film festivals and débutante balls. His keen eye, and an instinct for the absurd, has allowed him to capture the behaviour of people who are either unaware of, or indifferent to the camera. Screen Time explores a variety of social situations, from the mundane to the exalted, and features celebrities, actors, models – and even the occasional princess – all glued to their phones.
‘Dafydd Jones focuses on one of the most dominant elements of the social life of our times – how the smartphone has taken over. A timely and sobering look at this phenomenon, it is done with his usual eloquence as a photographer.’
— Martin Parr
‘A little gem of a book chronicling that most gullible of all species, the human being’
— Craig Brown, Books of the Year 2019, Mail on Sunday
Dafydd Jones (b. 1956) was the social photographer for the Tatler and Vanity Fair, and his work has been featured in most of the broadsheet newspapers, including the Times, and the Sunday Telegraph. His work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Hyman Collection of British Photography, in London, the Martin Parr Foundation, in Bristol, the Opsis Foundation, in New York, and the Yale Museum of British Art, in New Haven.
- Introduction
- Dafydd Jones
- Photographer
- Dafydd Jones
- Designer
- Jean-Michel Dentand
Hardcover
16 × 21cm
6 ¼ × 8 ¼ in
160pp
100 colour photographs
£14.95
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$19.95
ISBN 978-1-911422-28-0
Press
- The best new photography books in 2019
Digital Camera World, 27 December 2019 - A High-Society Photographer Has Captured the Way Smartphones Have Made Zombies Out of Guests at Elite Parties. It’s Disturbing
artnet, 16 December 2019 - Screen Time With Dafydd Jones
Digital Mindfulness Podcast, 08 December 2019 - Society Photographer Turns His Lens on Smartphone Addiction
WIRED, 02 December 2019 - Screen Time: Photographs by Dafydd Jones that reveal our complete addiction to smartphones
Creative Boom, 22 November 2019 - RUSSH round-up: going offline, seeing green and the music to soundtrack your weekend
RUSSH, 18 November 2019 - Dafydd Jones Captures Society's Dirty Secret: Everyone Is On Their Phones
Guest of a Guest, 29 October 2019 - What the society photographer saw (we’re always on our phone)
The Times, 17 October 2019 - Society’s screen fixation captured by photographer Dafydd Jones
Tatler, 17 October 2019 - Screen Time: These thought-provoking images show celebrities can't put down their phones either
London Evening Standard, 14 October 2019 - Snapped in secret, the phone-mad stars: From a VERY glamorous Geri Halliwell to rocker Ronnie Wood and actress Naomie Harris, photographer reveals celebrities' mania for mobiles in stunning new book
MailOnline, 11 October 2019 - Dafydd Jones in Conversation With Martin Parr
Ffoton, 01 February 2019