The Most Travelled Correspondent

Posted: December 15, 2009 
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George Rodger was one of the 20th century’s most important photojournalists. In 1949 he founded Magnum together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and David “Chim” Seymour.With the outbreak of the Second World War, Rodger decided to chronicle it. His now famous images taken during The Blitz gained him a job as a war correspondent for Life magazine and he became the war’s most travelled photographer, covering battles in Africa, Italy and Burma, as well as the liberation of France, Belgium and Holland. an exhibition of his work is being held at the Diemar / Noble photography gallery in London until 16 Jan 10