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Thurston Hopkins

Diana Dors On Location by Thurston Hopkins

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Getty Images Gallery ( London, UK)
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  • Artwork Info
  • About the Artist
  • 1951
    Silver gelatin print
    Signed, in ink, au recto 
    Signed, titled, dated, and editioned, in pencil, au verso
    Edition of 50 (#1/50) 
    Matted and framed
    Image Credit: © Estate of Thurston Hopkins / Getty Images Gallery

  • Thurston Hopkins was born in South London in 1913. Trained as an illustrator at Brighton College of Art, he began work as a commercial illustrator upon graduation. He found the work sporadic, and as newspapers transitioned from illustration to photographs in the 1930s, he soon discovered, “the camera paid better than the brush.” In 1936 he began full time work as a Fleet Street photographer but soon found the clichéd imagery and ruthless tactics required of press photographers tiresome. Picture Post,a new weekly illustrated magazine based on a European editorial formula, launched in 1938 and soon became a creative base for Hopkins. The magazine’s pioneering practice of partnering photographers with writers was particularly inspiring and fit with his progressive ideals.