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George Rodger
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British
, 1908–1995)
George Rodger
Post War Life,
1946
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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
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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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