Artworks by George Rodger at Trimper Gallery on artnet

George Rodger

(British, 1908–1995)

George Rodger

Moran Warrior, 1979

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George Rodger

The Champion, 1949

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George Rodger

Bracelet Dancers, 1949

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George Rodger

Moving a House, 1953

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George Rodger

Reconstruction, 1945

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George Rodger

Winston Churchill with General Montgomery, 1945

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George Rodger

Running Home, 1945

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George Rodger

Skeins of Cotton, 1958

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George Rodger

Two Men, 1942

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George Rodger

The Arab Legion Desert Patrol (Square), 1941

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George Rodger

American GI, 1943

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The Hausa, 1940

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George Rodger

Suqs of Baghdad, 1952

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George Rodger

Soldiers from the Arab Legion Desert Patrol, 1941

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George Rodger

Tulips are growing again, 1946

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George Rodger

The Via Dolorosa, 1952

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Biography

Timeline

1908: Born in Cheshire
1921 - 1925: St. Bee’s College, Cumbria, UK
1947: Rodger was invited to join Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and William Vandivert in founding Magnum Photos
1985: First Prize at "Peace in the World" exhibition in Moscow, U.S.S.R. (now Russia)
1993: Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society
: Honorary Fellow of Kent Institute of Art and Design
1995: Died in Kent on 24 July

Exhibitions

2004: Retrospective – Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
: The African Photographs (with Ian Berry) – Brunei Gallery, London, UK
2000 - 2001: George Rodger Retrospective – Doisneau Gallery, Paris, France; Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, Ca, USA; Leica Gallery, New York, USA
1999: Village of the Nubas – Focus Gallery, London, UK
: G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, California (exhibition with Peter Rodger)
1998: Amnesty International Speech in Honour of George Rodger – The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room, London, UK
1996: A Photographic Journey – Birmingham Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
: The African Photographs – National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
: La Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France
: George Rodger, Photographer – Kent Library, Ashford, Kent, UK
1994: Lichtbild Gallery, Bremen, Germany; University of Kent; Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
1993: Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone and Rochester, UK; Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992: Winston Churchill: Britain at War - Churchill House, London, UK
1991: Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, New York, NY
: Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, France; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; Astley- Cheetham Gallery, Stalybridge, UK; Stockport Arts Center, Manchester, UK
1990: Le Port, Réunion Island, Africa
: The Blitz - Picto at Bastille, Paris, France; National Museum of Film, Photography and TV, Bradford, UK; Navy Museum, Washington D.C.
1989: Oriel Clywd, Wrexham, Wales; Bolton Art Gallery, Bolton, UK; Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield, UK
1988: Mid-Pennine Arts, Burnely, UK; Metropole, Folkestone, Kent, UK; Anthropological Museum, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
1987: Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
1986: Cyprus National Bank, Nicosia and Limasso, Cyprus
: Fifty Photos from the 50s - Amsterdam Foto, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1984 - 1986: Tribal Africa - FNAC Montparnasse, Paris; Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque, France; Magnum Gallery, Paris, France; Espace Image Gallery, Marseille, France; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angouléme, France
1982: London Faces the Blitz - Photogallery, St Leonard's-on-Sea, UK
: Contrast Gallery, London, UK
1979: The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK; FNAC, Montparnasse, Paris, France
1978: Tribal Africa - University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
1975: Photographer for Life - Canterbury City Library, Canterbury, UK
1974: Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

Literature

1999: George Rodger, Photographic Voyager (text by Carroll Naggar and Barry Singer), Barry Singer Gallery, USA)
1997: George Rodger: The African Photographs (text by Bruce Bernard), The British Council, UK
1994 - 1999: Humanity and Inhumanity: The Photographic Journey of George Rodger (text by Bruce Bernard), Phaidon, USA
1990 - 1991: The Blitz: The Photography of George Rodger, Viking, UK/E Rutherford: Penguin, USA
1987: George Rodger, Magnum Opus: Fifty Years in Photojournalism, Dirk Nishen, UK and Germany
1975: World of the Horse (with Judith Campbell), Octopus and Ridge Press, UK/USA
1974: George Rodger, Gordon Fraser/Arts Council of Great Britain, UK
1955 - 1999: Village of the Nubas, Delpire, France/Phaidon, UK
1944: Desert Journey, The Cresset Press, UK
1943: Red Moon Rising, The Cresset Press, UK
: Far on the Ringing Plains, The Macmillan Company, USA

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Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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