A highly accomplished gardener, Charles Jones plied his trade on a number of private estates in England in the 1890s including Ote Hall in Sussex, where the images in this lot were likely taken. Jones had a great deal of success as a propagator of flowers and vegetables, and he documented the results photographically. Jones’s visual style was admirably straightforward, and he leaned into photography’s ability to capture volume and texture. Working almost exclusively with a plain background, his photographs possess a Modernist precision well ahead of their time. Produced primarily for his own use, Jones’s prints were produced in very limited quantities, and many are unique.
