biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913–95)
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| biography:
| Photojournalist, born in London, UK. He started as a messenger in a photographic agency. Self-taught, he was one of the first to use a Leica 35 mm camera (1938). He was on the staff of Picture Post until 1957, except for service as an army photographer from (1942–6), during which he recorded the horrors of the concentration camps. His records of London under the Blitz rank among the finest of the period. Later assignments took him to the Korean and Vietnam Wars. After the closure of Picture Post he was in much demand for advertising photography until his retirement in 1967. |
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