Jon Naar, who has died aged 97, was a London-born photographer whose work ranged from portraits of Andy Warhol and prime minister Harold Wilson to a catalogue of New York graffiti dubbed the “bible” of the street art movement.
Naar came to professional photography relatively late in life, having previously worked in marketing for a pharmaceutical company. On a business trip to Mexico in 1962, however, he became transfixed by the “dazzling light from a not yet polluted Mexico City sky”. The photographs captured in his spare time during that trip – including a striking portrait of a cross-eyed man flanked by his wife and son – formed the basis of his first exhibition.
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