The disc jockey and entrepreneur Hal Jackson hired Mr. Jones as the photographer for his Talented Teens International Competition. In 1997, washing his car in front of his house in South Los Angeles, Mr. Jones was attacked by a neighbor with a baseball bat. “My wife didn’t like it that I was gone every night,” he told The Los Angeles Times in 2013. “My ultimate photo, I don’t know when it’s going to come, is to photograph all the black Academy Award winners,” Mr. Jones told The Los Angeles Times in 1997. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAfter leaving the Air Force, Mr. Jones moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a master’s degree in business from California State University, Los Angeles, in 1976.

Source: New York Times July 13, 2016 01:18 UTC