A new exhibition has just opened at the Photographers’ Gallery in London celebrating the career of photojournalist Bert Hardy (1913-1995).
Hardy is best-known for his work with the ground-breaking Picture Post and for images that still appear in newspapers, magazines and online.
What is exciting about the Photographers’ Gallery exhibition is that it offers an opportunity to see a range of photographs drawn from his entire career.
One of the first Pressphotoman blogposts (15th December 2022) concerned The Picture Post Album, a copy picked up for a few pounds in a second-hand bookshop.
Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the paper’s founding, two of Hardy’s best-known shots were deployed front and back.
Like a songwriter being asked in every interview about one or two of their hits, I wonder if Hardy ever tired of talking about those ‘classic’ shots of the women on Blackpool seafront and the young boys in Glasgow’s Gorbals?
The exhibition website features less well-known examples of his work, and anyone interested in photojournalism and social history will want to see the show in person before it closes on 2nd June 2024.
https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/bert-hardy-photojournalism-war-and-peace
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