Post-war Britain in the photos Thurston Hopkins

28 October 2014 at 102‑m to year of life died a British photographer Thurston Hopkins. It fotocamera lasted only ten years, but during that time he managed to take pictures (there are about 800), which became the pride of the world photo archive. Thurston Hopkins studied at Brighton College of art for drawing class. Illustrated books his father, Robert Hopkins, author of Ghost stories and biographies of British writers: Oscar Wilde, H. G. wells and Rudyard Kipling. He earned a living by painting the frames for the portraits of king Edward VII, and after his abdication on 10 December 1936 and remained idle. Took up photography...

Unlike most photographers of the time, Hopkins little shot on medium format. During his service in vodopoglaschenie Royal air force, he acquired German camera is the Leica, which was used until the end of his career. After demobilization I entered the London Agency Camera Press, and in 1950 came the famous magazine Picture Post. Picture Post, founded by Hungarian immigrant Stefan Loranto in 1938, in the 1940‑50s was considered the spokesman of the "British way of life". Were published in the magazine illustrated reports on the topics of the day. The circulation exceeded one million copies. Thurston Hopkins took in Picture Post after he sent the editors prepared a bogus issue of the magazine with its own texts and photos.

One of the first works Hopkins for Picture Post — report "Cats of London" on feral animals, many of which are bred after the war. Gained great fame and social report about the children's games in the street. Picture Post was closed in 1957. Photo archive of the journal were sold to the air force, and is now owned by Getty Images. In the 1960s, Hopkins became one of the most successful advertising photographers in the UK. The last decade of his life he devoted to teaching and painting.

1. Child in an Indian headdress looks out of the basement for storage of coal.

2. 10 November 1956. Baby sleeps in the Liverpool slums. 88 thousand such houses was considered uninhabitable.

3. A random pair on the banks of the Seine in Paris.

4. July 1955. Children test the strength shoes from Clark's Shoe Company.

5. September 6, 1952. Shooting scene from the British Comedy the Titfield Thunderbolt. Mannequins have to die under the wheels 114-year-old locomotive that once ran on the line from Liverpool to Manchester.

6. 12 Feb 1955. Students at Manchester University.

7. September 1953. Kids play with camera Hopkins.

8. On 29 January 1955. Director Alfred Hitchcock near the building of the British Museum in London.

9. Portrait of an unknown twins.

10. 7 August 1954. Girls watching cows out of the van.

11. On may 17, 1952. Students of the University of Oxford relax after a school day in the boat.

12. 27 April 1957. British runaway June Paul (Folds) he trained in fencing, with her husband, professional athlete fencer Raymond Floors.

13. On 16 August 1952. Parisian woman in a straw hat.

14. 1953. Contestant beauty Holiday Girl Beauty Judy Dunlop gallery in the King's library of the British Museum.

15. On 8 August 1953. Contestants of beauty, Holiday Girl Beauty preparing to speak at the Royal pavilion in Brighton.

16. 1957. Trade of used shoes on the streets of Liverpool.

17. 1953. A herder and his horse stopped to drink water from the river near one of the Australian ranch.

18. 1955. A squad of scouts with Hiking equipment off the Scottish ferry to Brodick on the Isle of Arran. The village of Brodick is the main tourist resort of the island with the castle of the XV century, picturesque hills, lakes and rivers.

19. August 1952. A man with a dog on the beach of Paraggi near the Italian tourist town of Portofino.

20. June 1953. Residents of the London district of Fulham celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

21. 25 Dec 1954. Anglican Bishop George Reindorp baptizes a child at St. Stephen's Church in London.