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On his 100th birthday this week, one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century, Thurston Hopkins, talks about his career as a photographer at Picture Post Jim Powell theguardian.com.


Thurston Hopkins obituary Photography The Guardian

The great British photojournalist Thurston Hopkins has died at the age of 101, after a short illness. An unsung hero in British photography culture, few people captured the spirit, character and contradictions of Britain in the years immediately following the Second World War.


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Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014) studied under Morgan Rendle at Brighton College of Art in graphic art and taught himself photography.


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British photographer and photojournalist Thurston Hopkins looking at his 1956 photograph of model Andria Loran in Seaford, East Sussex, UK, 10th. British photographer and photojournalist Thurston Hopkins , 1953.


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Unsung hero of photography Thurston Hopkins turns 100. This Picture Post photojournalist may not have a Wikipedia entry, but his humanist eye helped the British public through the worst days of.


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Reportage for Picture Post in the 1950s was at the heart of the career of Thurston Hopkins, who has died aged 101. His long professional life also included book illustration, commercial.


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Godfrey Thurston Hopkins (16 April 1913 - 27 October 2014), known as Thurston Hopkins, was a well-known British Picture Post photojournalist and a centenarian . Education


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Thurston Hopkins obituary Photography The Guardian

Photographer Thurston Hopkins passed away peacefully on 27th October at the age of 101. This in from Getty Images Vice President for the Hulton Archive, Matthew Butson on the life of Thurston Hopkins:


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Godfrey Thurston Hopkins the great Picture Post photographer talks to Derek Smith about his life as a photographer, filmed in his 99th year.


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Thurston Hopkins, who has died aged 101, was one of Britain's greatest photojournalists, capturing the humanity and social inequality of British life in the 1950s. The Picture Post pioneer was.


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Thurston "Godfrey" Hopkins was born in South London in 1913, and was initially trained as an illustrator at Brighton College of Art. However, he soon figured out "the camera paid better than the brush" and began working full time as a photo journalist. In 1940, Hopkins joined the RAF Photographic.


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Thurston Hopkins was a photojournalist for Picture Post who captured a poodle in a passenger seat and an urchin down a coal hole. Although a versatile and reliable staff photographer on the.


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Thurston Hopkins was born in South London in 1913. Trained as an illustrator at Brighton College of Art, he began work as a commercial illustrator upon graduation. He found the work sporadic, and as newspapers transitioned from illustration to photographs in the 1930s, he soon discovered, "the camera paid better than the brush."


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As one of the great British photojournalists, Thurston Hopkins, now 94, photographed people and communities all over the world for Picture Post. His wife, Grace Robertson, used a male pseudonym.

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