Personal Life
Bown was born in Dorset, and first worked as a chart corrector, which included a role in plotting the D-Day invasion. She studied photography at Guildford College under Ifor Thomas. She started out as a child portrait photographer, but got a break in 1949 when she met Mechthild Nawiasky, an Observer picture editor, who asked her to photograph the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Bown married Martin Moss, CBE, the fashion retail executive, who died in November 2007.
In 1985, she was awarded an MBE and in 1995, she was "upgraded" to the CBE.
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