Picture Post Photographer Thurston Hopkins dies aged 101 Photoarchivenews
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 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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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.
Fertile Minds Thurston Hopkins, 1956.
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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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.
50 Extraordinary BlackandWhite Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Postwar 1950s Britain
Thurston Hopkins was born in 1913 in Sleaford in Sussex and died in October 2014. As a younger man he was Godfrey Thurston Hopkins but dropped the Godfrey while at school.. When the second world war came along, he joined and served with the RAF photography unit. After the war Thurston Hopkins travelled around Europe, hitch hiking and taking.
British photographer and photojournalist Thurston Hopkins , 1953.... News Photo Getty Images
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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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
Another extraordinary picture taken by my uncle Godfrey Thurston Hopkins, this time I think in
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.
Picture Post Photographer Thurston Hopkins dies aged 101 Photoarchivenews
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.
Thurston Hopkins obituary Photography The Guardian
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 Hopkins, one of Britain's greatest photojournalists, created brilliant works of art throughout his 101 years of life, but it was 1951 Cats of London that gave him recognition as a very talented and unique photographer. Nowadays the depth and the intriguing story telling in his black and white pictures of felines are appreciated not only by art-lovers, but also by cat-lovers worldwide.
Thurston Hopkins truth, beauty pageants and poodles in pictures Art and design The Guardian
Late last year, the photojournalist Thurston Hopkins crossed my mind. I checked him out on Wikipedia and was surprised to find no entry. In fact there is very little detail online, but you can.
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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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Godfrey Thurston Hopkins the great Picture Post photographer talks to Derek Smith about his life as a photographer, filmed in his 99th year.
