Photography book review: John Chillingworth: Picture Post Photographer
With an introduction by Matthew Butson
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Your support makes all the difference.Picture Post, the UK’s best known illustrated magazine, was launched in October 1938 and ran until 1957. At its peak its circulation was almost two million. At 22, John Chillingworth was the youngest member of its star team of photo-journalists and worked alongside Bert Hardy, Kurt Hutton, Felix Man, Bill Brandt, Thurston Hopkins, Grace Robertson, and Leonard McCombe.
The magazine was anti-Fascist and populist. It covered politics, sport, fashion, music, theatre and film, society and everyday life in the UK and abroad.
Chillingworth stayed with Picture Post for seven years and produced a vast array of work which is still reproduced around the world but this is his first monograph.
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