How Picture Post, the UK's best-selling weekly magazine during WWII, revolutionised British photography - available to rent/buy on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube.
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#PictureStoriesFilm is out now on DVD, iTunes, Google Play & YouTube
★★★★ "Inspiring documentary" The Guardian
The life & legacy of Picture Post, the magazine that changed the face of British Photography
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We took a trip with exhibition collaborator, Dr Tom Allbeson (Senior Lecturer in Media History) to the Special Collections & Archive at Cardiff University to explore the Bert Hardy collection!
In this video, Tom introduces us to some ephemera from his early career!
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✍️“Las guerras son comenzadas por hombres asustados”, Tom Clancy
📸Kurt Hutton
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Must-See Exhibitions Across the UK: Bert Hardy at @TPGallery
Get to know London-born press photographer & documentarian Bert Hardy, who captured the life of people across the UK & in post-war Europe, in this extensive survey show.
Full feature here: artrabbit.com/network/featur…
ALT Bert Hardy, Robinson and fans, 1951.
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Rethink existing narratives on post-war photography & its legacies in our day-long conference on 10 May!
'Photographing Britain' focuses on the work of Bert Hardy, examining the formal qualities of his photographs & the conditions in which they were made
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Giving instruction to a group of nurses from Commonwealth nations, gathered around a patient's bed at Hackney General Hospital Homerton London, 26th Dec 1953. Original Publication: Picture Post - (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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London-born Bert Hardy (1913-1995, UK) was an influential English press and documentary photographer known for his work for Picture Post magazine. Born into a working-class family in Blackfriars, Hardy was self-taught and worked as both a combat and an advertising photographer.
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Nostalgic photos of post-war Britain showcase career of photojournalist Bert Hardy mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ga…
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More from the marvellous Bert Hardy exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery.
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Bert Hardy was a genius. And if you are a historian you already know every photograph. On now at @TPGallery
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About to do that classic Glasgow Easter thing; vanish for three days, only to reappear on Sunday...
Pic: Gorbals, 31st January 1948, by Bert Hardy, for Picture Post.
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Same gentleman here in this photo
8th October 1938: Chelsea Pensioners serving and collecting food at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 29 - The Life Of A Chelsea Pensioner - pub. 1938 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Nice exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery on Bert Hardy: Photojournalism in War and Peace. Some of these are familiar images to me but I’ve never seen as full a retrospective of his work as this before.
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We've got a film screening of Picture Stories (2021, dir.Rob West) on 11 April – a unique documentary that tells the story of Picture Post, the best-selling magazine that revolutionised the way photographers portrayed the lives of British people.
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Enjoyed a recent visit to the Bert Hardy exhibition at the @TPGallery in London.
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Reviews of the brilliant exhibition of Bert Hardy's photojournalism at the Photographers' Gallery - astrofella.wordpress.com/202…
