Britain 50s through the camera Thurston Hopkins Bashny.Net

In September 1953. Children playing with a camera Hopkins.

Unlike most photographers of the time, Hopkins little shot on medium format. While serving in fotopodrazdelenii Royal Air Force he acquired a German camera Leica, which was used until the end of a career. After demobilization he entered the London agency Camera Press, and in 1950 joined the famous magazine Picture Post. Picture Post, founded by Hungarian immigrant Stefan Lorant in 1938, in 1940-50-s considered the mouthpiece of "the British way of life." The journal published the illustrated reports on current issues. Circulation of more than one million copies. Thurston Hopkins took in Picture Post, after he had sent to the editor he had prepared bogus issue with your own text and photos.





One of the first works for Hopkins Picture Post - report "Cats London" about feral animals bred a lot after the war. Get more fame and social reportage about children's games in the street. Picture Post closed in 1957. Photo archives of the magazine was sold to the Air Force, and is now owned by Getty Images. In 1960, Hopkins was one of the most successful advertising photographers in the UK. The last decade of his life he devoted to teaching and painting.

A child in an Indian headdress looks out of the basement for storage of coal.



August 7, 1954. Girls watching the cows out of the van.



November 10, 1956. Baby sleeps in the Liverpool slums. 88 thousand of these homes were considered unfit for habitation.



Random couple on the bank of the Seine in Paris.



In July 1955. Children are tested for strength shoes from Clark's Shoe Company.



September 6, 1952. Filming a scene from the British comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt. Mannequins should die under the wheels of the locomotive 114-year-old, who once cruised through the Liverpool - Manchester.

February 12, 1955. Students at the University of Manchester.



January 29, 1955. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock near the building of the British Museum in London.



Portrait of unknown twins.



May 17, 1952. Students of the University of Oxford, after a rest of the school day in the boat.



April 27, 1957. British runner Paul Jung (Fulds) exercising in fencing with her husband - a professional athlete, fencer Paul Raymond.



August 16, 1952. Parisienne in a straw hat.



1953. Beauty contestant Holiday Girl Beauty Judy Dunlop Gallery King's library of the British Museum.



August 8, 1953. Contestants Beauty Holiday Girl Beauty ready to perform at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton.



1957. Trade Wearing shoes on the streets of Liverpool.



1953. Cattle drover and his horse stopped to drink water from the river near one of the Australian ranch.



1955. Scout troop camping equipment from coming off the ferry in Scotland Brodick on the Isle of Arran. Brodick village - the main tourist town of the island with a castle of the XV century, picturesque hills, lakes and rivers.



In August 1952. The man with the dog on the beach near Paraggi Italian tourist town of Portofino.



In June 1953. Residents of London's Fulham celebrate the coronation of Elizabeth II.



December 25, 1954. Anglican Bishop George Reyndorp baptizes a child in the church of St. Stephen in London.



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