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Audrey Hepburn Breakfast At Tiffanys (Silver Gelatin Print)

1961

Last Bus In London by Bert Hardy Limited Edition silver gelatine print A couple saying goodbye on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue in London, July 1953 . Original Publication: Picture Post - 6576 - Known Your Piccadilly - pub. 4th July 1953 (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Archive London England) Paper size 12x16 inches / 31 x 41 cm Produced utilising the original negative Numbered and stamped by the Getty Archive London Limited edition to 300 only Silver gelatine fibre based baryta paper print Certificate of authenticity included printed 2024 Ships securely from London. Other sizes and Framing available on request. Bert Hardy Bert Hardy Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995) was an English documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the Picture Post magazine between 1941 and 1957. Life and work Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy rose from humble working class origins in Southwark, London. The eldest of seven children, he left school at age 14 to work for a chemist who also processed photos. His first big sale came in 1936 when he photographed King George V and Queen Mary in a passing carriage during the Silver Jubilee celebrations, and sold 200 small prints of his best view of the King. His first assignment, at age 23, was to photograph Hungarian actor Sakall at the Mayfair Hotel. Hardy freelanced for The Bicycle magazine, and bought his first small-format 35 mm Leica. He signed on with the General Photographic Agency as a Leica photographer, later founding his own freelance firm, Criterion. General Photographic Agency General Photographic Agency a Fleet Street, London agency, sold photos at least between 1880-1950. Picture Post and World War II In 1941, Hardy was recruited by the then editor Tom Hopkinson of the leading picture publication of the 1930s to the 1950s, Picture Post. Founded in 1938 and funded by publisher Edward Hulton, the magazine's first editor was Hungarian émigré Stefan Lorant (1901–97) assisted by Hopkinson, who took over as editor from 1940. The picture-centric, left-leaning and reasonably-priced publication was highly successful and circulation soon rose to over a million. Hardy's photographer colleagues included Felix H. Man (aka Hans Baumann...

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