Happy 80th, Camilla Jessel! (British photographer: "Ballet School: What It Takes to Make a Dancer," 2000)

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Aka Camilla Ruth Jessel and Camilla Jessel Panufnik, she lives in Twickenham.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/jessel-camilla-ruth-1937

Excerpt:

...Jessel was born in Kent, England, in 1937. Because of her father's career in the Royal Navy, her family was required to move, and by the time she was a teen she was living in South India and would soon spend a year in Paris studying French literature and civilization. "At the age of twenty," Jessel once noted, "I went to America with about one hundred dollars and had twenty-six different temporary secretarial jobs in six cities in one year: Princeton, Washington, New York, New Orleans, Dallas, and San Francisco."

Jessel's illustration career began by chance, after she shot some promotional photographs for the organization Save the Children, where she worked. The organization's press officer "liked the amateur shots I'd done of the organization's work. These fund-raising photos were followed by lots of hard work and lucky breaks." Working as a freelancer, Jessel sold photoessays to newspapers such as the Times Educational Supplement, and after two of her photographs made it to the pages of the London Guardian, she was offered her first book contract with Methuen, where she created Manuela Lives in Portugal for their "Children Everywhere" series.

Jessel's first books, as well as many of her books since, were inspired by her interest in child development. "Doing color slides for a lecture on the psychology of play of children in the hospital, I got the idea of doing a photographic book to overcome children's fears of the hospital," she once explained...

http://www.lutoslawski.org.pl/en/person,99.html
(brief bio and photo)

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1266&bih=811&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=tJIpWrXKJKTXjwSs07ywDQ&q=camilla+jessel+books&oq=camilla+jessel+books&gs_l=psy-ab.3...158758.159198.0.159341.5.5.0.0.0.0.163.483.4j1.5.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.zYw7kQMO-M0#imgrc=_
(some book covers)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/191948.Camilla_Jessel
(reader reviews)

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/arts/music/celebrating-panufnik-a-polish-composer-in-london.html
(2014 article about the centenary of her husband, Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik, 1914-1991 - she sometimes wrote lyrics for him)

http://culture.pl/en/article/asymmetries-of-the-20th-century-who-was-panufnik
(more about the couple, with photos)

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13413161.The_life_and_lush_music_of_Andrzej_Panufnik/
(more, from 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsxlMVS1pDc
(B&W video, mainly about Panufnik, but with Camilla)




WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
FOR CHILDREN; AND PHOTOGRAPHER

Manuela Lives in Portugal ("Children Everywhere" series), Hastings House (New York, NY), 1967.

Paul in Hospital, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1972.
Mark's Wheelchair Adventures, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1975.

Life at the Royal Ballet School, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1979, revised, 1985.
The Puppy Book, Methuen Children's Books (New York), 1980.
The New Baby, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1981.
Moving House, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1981.
Going to the Doctor, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1981.
Away for the Night, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1981.
Lost and Found, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1983.
At Playgroup, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1983.
Going to Hospital, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1983.
The Baby-sitter, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1983.
Learner Bird, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1983.

If You Meet a Stranger, Walker Books (London, England), 1990.
The Puppy Book, Walker Books (London, England), 1991, revised edition, 1993, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 1994.
The Kitten Book, Walker Books (London, England), 1991, revised edition, 1993, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 1994.

Ballet School: What It Takes to Make a Dancer, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1999, Viking (New York, NY), 2000.


"BABYDAYS" SERIES; AND PHOTOGRAPHER

Baby's Day, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1985.
Baby's Toys, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1985.
Baby's Bedtime, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1985.
Baby's Clothes, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1985.
Baby's Food, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1986.
Where Is Baby?, Methuen Children's Books (London, England), 1986.


PHOTOGRAPHER

Dorothy Shuttlesworth, The Tower of London: Grim and Glamorous, Hastings House (New York, NY), 1970.
Susan Harvey, Play in Hospital, Faber (London, England), 1972.
David Watkins, Complete Method for the Harp, Boosey & Hawkes (London, England), 1972.
Penelope Leach, Baby and Child: A Modern Parent's Guide, Knopf (New York, NY), 1978.
Sheila Kitzinger, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Knopf (New York, NY), 1980.
David Moore, Multi-Cultural Britain (booklet), Save the Children, 1980.
Miriam Stoppard, Fifty-plus Life Guide: How to Ensure Fitness, Health, and Happiness in the Middle Years and Beyond, Dorling Kindersley (London, England), 1983.
Esther Rantzen and Desmond Wilcox, Baby Love, Rainbird, 1985.


Lenona.