Creator: George Rodger

  • Birth date: March 18, 1908.
  • Birth place: Hale (Greater Manchester)✈.
  • Death date: July 25, 1995.
  • Death place: Ashford (Kent)✈.
  • Field: Photography.
  • Main interests: Photojournalism, Documentary photography.
  • Main subjects: Travel, War.
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Rodger was one of many photographers to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, the first being members of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit. His photographs of the survivors and piles of corpses were published in Life and Time magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps.…
Discipline History of photography • Photography
Subject Travel • War

George Rodger

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