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This is a rare signed print from the important photographer and founding magnum member George Rodger titled RAF Bomber Station 1940 which became a famous photo from world war two showing a snapshot of often overlooked aspects of life for soldiers on the frontline.  This print beautifully captures a station commander in London catching some sleep while awaiting the return of his night bomber crew during World War II and is in excellent condition.  The work measures 33.2cm x 48cm while the image measures 35.7cm x 24.5cm and is signed by George Rodger in ink to the lower right.

Born in Cheshire in 1908, George Rodger served in the British Merchant Navy. After a short spell in America, he worked as a photographer for the BBC’s The Listener magazine, followed in 1938 by a brief stint working for the Black Star Agency.  His pictures of the London blitz brought him to the attention of Life magazine, and he became a war correspondent. He won 18 campaign medals covering Free French activities in West Africa and went on to document the war front in Eritrea, Abyssinia and the Western Desert. He traveled to Iran, Burma, North Africa, Sicily and Salerno, Italy, where he met and befriended Robert Capa.

Having covered the liberation of France, Belgium and Holland, Rodger was the first photographer to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. In May, he photographed the German surrender at Lüneburg for Time and Life. Traumatized by the experience of looking for “nice compositions” in front of the dead, Rodger embarked on a 28,000-mile journey all over Africa and the Middle East, focusing on animal life, rituals, and ways of life that exist in a close relationship with nature.

In 1947, Rodger was invited to join Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David “Chim” Seymour and William Vandivert in founding Magnum. His next major trip was a Cape-to-Cairo trans-Africa journey, during which he made extraordinary pictures of the Kordofan Nuba tribe which first appeared in National Geographic in 1951. Africa remained a preoccupation for him for over 30 years.

Enormously successful during his lifetime, George Rodger died in Kent on July 24, 1995.

Please note this item will be carefully packed and ship from the United Kingdom and the buyer is responsible for any applicable import taxes and duties.  




 


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