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My Father Adam Kreb and his brother Reinhold Kreb were reunited with my grandfather Johannes June 7 1947 after WWII in Berlin Johannesstift. The Picture Post covered the story in an issue 1947. There…Continue
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Hello,I am currently working on my thesis in the Photographic Preservation and Collections Management (PPCM) program at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, working with original issues of the…Continue
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With the recent death at the age of 101 of former staff photographer Thurston Hopkins, another milestone has been passed in the memory of those who knew and worked with him. Of all my highly individual colleagues on the photographic staff of Picture Post, G Thurston Hopkins was the most sensitive observer of the human estate, wherever he worked on assignments around the world. His Leica camera, which went with him wherever he went, was a natural extension of his creative eye. I am told that in retirement, his artistic background came to the fore and his love of painting must have contributed to his well-deserved longevity.
There is a renewed interest among British publishers in Picture Post and its photographers. Published recently by the Liverpool based Bluecoat Press is a book entitled 'Bert Hardy's Britain' and Dewi Lewis Publishing has produced a monograph called ' John Chillingworth - Picture Post Photographer' which is generating great interest in the UK and the US. Both books, with their images from the 'golden age' of photo-journalism, provide an insite into the magazine's influence upon photographers working today.
There is a fully searchable archive of Picture Post here published by Gale:
http://gale.cengage.co.uk/product-highlights/history/picture-post-h...
unfortunately it is only available to institutions.
Hello,
I am particularly interested in finding out what photographs or essays on China and Hong Kong were published in Picture Post up to 1960?
And I am wondering what happened to the late Colin Osman's research into early photojournalism, and if any of it is available for study on or off line?
Kind Regards,
John Turner
Thank you John for the plug about my Stefan Lorant biography which is still available by Scarecrow. And I know the material which is now at Getty very well as I was working with Lorant in the early-90s as he was assembling the content for Getty. And that was the basis for many of our conversations.
On another tack, can I use this opportunity to note that John Chillingworth has an exhibition of his own photography on show through October 2011 at the Royal Photographic Society, Fenton House, 122 Wells Road, Bath. It will be well worth seeing!
I have only a small reminiscence to add....
About 25 years ago I was interviewed for a place at the Cardiff Journalism School, founded by Tom Hopkinson, former editor of Picture Post. He had long since retired from the school at this point, but liked to stay involved and sat in on my interview. Among my sheaf of cuttings, which were aimed at impressing enough to get me a place, were a number of pictures I'd taken for various student publications and local papers. He spotted the images, and interrupted the interviewer to talk photography. This took up the remaining 25 minutes of the 30 minute interview, and while we had a great chat, it did little to prove my worth or otherwise as a journalist.
I'm not complaining; I got in!
A wonderful man and a great journalist.
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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