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George Rodger George Rodger: Born 19th March, 1908, England, Hale. Part of the British Merchant Navy before he became a photographer. Whilst sailing around the world with the Navy, George had wrote about his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate his travelogues. He worked with the BBC’s ‘The Listeners’ magazine, ‘Black Star Agency’ and a war correspondent during the second world war for ‘Life’ magazine. Two years after World War 2 ended formed the photographic agency called Magnum Photos 1947. Rodgers was invited to join Cartier-Bresson, Seymour, Capa and Vandivert to form the most prestige photography agency at this time. Took the first photographs at the death camps at Bergen-Belsen which were Nazi concentration camps back in World War 2. George Rodgers was known as an adventurous photographer. He captured photographs all over Africa which became his main focus for thirty years. |  |
  Man Jumping Over Puddle, Paris, France,
Gare Saint Lazare 1932. Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum | Henri Cartier-Bresson Born: August 22, 1908, Chanteloup-en-Brie, France. Bresson had developed a strong interest with painting before photography at a young age. His main interest surrealism. In 1932 he spent a year in the Ivory Coast. This is were he had found he discovered the Leica. (insert image of camera) After this he had taken the first steps to what would be his life-long passion, photography. In 1933 Henri had his first exhibition in New York at the Julien Levy Gallery. Later
after Bresson started to make films with Jean Renoir. Theses films were propaganda
filmed that Louis Aragon had commissioned for the communist party. The film was
called, La vie est à nous (‘Life is Ours’). The film had attacked the 200
leading families who controlled France. They went on to film La Regle du Jeu
(‘The Rules of the Game’) as well. In
1945 Henri had photographed the liberation of Paris with a group of
professional journalists and then filmed the documentary Le Retour (The
Return). It
is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression." He died at his home in Provence on 3 August 2004, a few weeks short of his 96th birthday.
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John Harrison: Landscape Photographer John Harrison is a landscape
photographer who uses an emotive style by capturing vibrant colours in
sunrises and sunsets, textures in nature, the moon, flowing water and
waterfalls.
John became interested in photography by experimenting with a Kodak Instamatic Camera when he was a young child. He received his first 35mm camera as a present from his father and learned the art of working with fully manual cameras. Both his father and grandfather were photography enthusiasts, and both owned with darkrooms. In secondary school, Harrison got his first Nikon FM SLR and he then became the school's lead yearbook photographer. His first modern camera was a Nikon N70 SLR that he used for many years. He shoots today with a Nikon D300 DSLR, almost always with a tripod (the secret to great images) and a variety of lenses. His achievements, accolades and awards include winning a national photography competition (Aperture Nature Photography Workshop Contest – ANPW www.f64.com). Has been juried into prestigious North America Nature Photography Association (NANPA www.nanpa.org) “Members Showcase." |  |
  The arrival of the Beatles in the U.S. New York 1964 with photographer Harry Benson.  President John F. Kennedy, Paris, 1961. Harry Benson. |
Harry Benson Internationally well known Harry Benson has he own story with over fifty years a photographer. Benson was born in Knightswood, Glasgow, Scotland in 1929. Growing up in the aftermath of World War Two, he started working for the Hamilton Advertiser in 1954 before moving to London to begin working for the Daily Sketch and then the Daily Express. His experience grew as he took a trip to the United States in 1964,
where he became famous for photographing the arrival of the Beatles in
America. Since his success of capturing the Beatles, he has been based in the U.S. where he shoots most of his work. He has worked for a number of companies such as Life, People, Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair. Benson has photographed every U.S. president since Eisenhower to Obama, that is eleven U.S presidents over fifty years worth of experience. He also photographed some extraordinary events such as the assassination of Robert Kennedy when he was right next to him at the time, the resignation of Richard Nixon and the funeral of Dr Martin Luther King. Benson had recorded all these events through the eye of a lens. He was present at the Watts riots in Los Angeles,
I.R.A. hunger strikes, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first U.S.
casualty in Bosnia. He has also photographed conflict in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, Israel and the West Bank. British politicians photographed by him include Margaret Thatcher, during her time as Prime Minister, and Sir Winston Churchill. In 2009, Harry Benson received a
CBE. In 2007, he received a Doctor of Letters from the Glasgow School
of Art and Glasgow University. He has won numerous awards for his
photography over the years, including being twice named NPPA Magazine
Photographer of the Year, the LUCIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in
Portrait Photography (2005), the Scottish Press Photographers
Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), and has twice received
the Leica Medal of Excellence. |
