Marc Chagall, 18 November 1967, by Jane Bown. 'I was living in Sevenoaks, Kent, when I somehow found out that Marc Chagall was going to be visiting Tudeley, which was close by. A young woman had drowned in a boating accident and her father had donated a stained-glass window to the church in her memory. It was a Chagall design, so he came for its unveiling. I went along and was about to photograph him when the people with him told me not to. I wasn't pushy, and had a rule that I would only photograph people who wanted me to. I was eventually allowed to shoot him later that day but it wasn’t the same. Before, he had been coming up the path towards me, looking like a very sweet and beautiful man with white hair. The pictures afterwards were boring. They were all standing there waiting for me to do it. It was no good at all.'

Photograph: Jane Bown