RODGER~George. Humanity and Inhumanity.

€35,00

Author: Bruce Bernard, picture research by Peter Marlow, foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Year: 1994
Artist: RODGER~George
ISBN: 0-7148-3165-4

Hardcover with dust jacket, 320 pages, English, 290 x 250 cm, 230 duo tone images.
Condution: new copy

Humanity and Inhumanity. Subtitle : The Photographic Journey of George Rodger.
The first and only monograph of the complete career of George Rodger, co-founder of the Magnum photo agency.
Covers his work from Life magazine, the 1940 London Blitz and assignments in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Presents the pictures that define Rodger's long career, together with reflections by Bruce Bernard on each phase of his extraordinary life's journey
A foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson complements 230 powerful images

George Rodger (1908), together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and David Chim Seymour, was a founder member of Magnum, the greatest picture agency of the post-war era. Rodger's baptism as a photo-journalist came when he was appointed a 'stringer' for Life magazine during the Blitz on London in 1940. He then embarked on a series of adventures that took him to almost every battlefield of the Second World War in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In 1948, after co-founding Magnum, he began a campaign of photography to rediscover humanity, travelling from Cape Town to Cairo by road.
This book presents the pictures that define George Rodger's long career, together with reflections by Bruce Bernard on each phase of his extraordinary life's journey. With a foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson and 230 powerful images, it represents a fitting tribute to George Rodger and a celebration of his life's work.