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George Rodger Biography
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1921 - 1925 |
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St. Bee’s College, Cumbria, UK
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1947 |
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Rodger was invited to join Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and William Vandivert in founding Magnum Photos
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1985 |
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First Prize at "Peace in the World" exhibition in Moscow, U.S.S.R. (now Russia)
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1993 |
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Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society
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1993 |
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Honorary Fellow of Kent Institute of Art and Design
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1995 |
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Died in Kent on 24 July
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2004
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Retrospective – Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan
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2004
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The African Photographs (with Ian Berry) – Brunei Gallery, London, UK
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2000 - 2001
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George Rodger Retrospective – Doisneau Gallery, Paris, France; Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, Ca, USA; Leica Gallery, New York, USA
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1999
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Village of the Nubas – Focus Gallery, London, UK
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1999
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G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, California (exhibition with Peter Rodger)
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1998
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Amnesty International Speech in Honour of George Rodger – The Photographers’ Gallery Print Room, London, UK
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1996
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A Photographic Journey – Birmingham Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
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1996
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The African Photographs – National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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1996
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La Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France
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1996
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George Rodger, Photographer – Kent Library, Ashford, Kent, UK
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1994
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Lichtbild Gallery, Bremen, Germany; University of Kent; Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
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1993
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Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone and Rochester, UK; Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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1992
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Winston Churchill: Britain at War - Churchill House, London, UK
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1991
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Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery, New York, NY
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1990
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Le Port, Réunion Island, Africa
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1990
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The Blitz - Picto at Bastille, Paris, France; National Museum of Film, Photography and TV, Bradford, UK; Navy Museum, Washington D.C.
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1990
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Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, France; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; Astley- Cheetham Gallery, Stalybridge, UK; Stockport Arts Center, Manchester, UK
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1989
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Oriel Clywd, Wrexham, Wales; Bolton Art Gallery, Bolton, UK; Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield, UK
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1988
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Mid-Pennine Arts, Burnely, UK; Metropole, Folkestone, Kent, UK; Anthropological Museum, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
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1987
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Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
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1986
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Cyprus National Bank, Nicosia and Limasso, Cyprus
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1986
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Fifty Photos from the 50s - Amsterdam Foto, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1984 - 1986
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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
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1982
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London Faces the Blitz - Photogallery, St Leonard's-on-Sea, UK
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1982
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Contrast Gallery, London, UK
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1979
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The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK; FNAC, Montparnasse, Paris, France
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1978
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Tribal Africa - University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
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1975
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Photographer for Life - Canterbury City Library, Canterbury, UK
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1974
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Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
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1999
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George Rodger, Photographic Voyager (text by Carroll Naggar and Barry Singer), Barry Singer Gallery, USA)
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1994 - 1999
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Humanity and Inhumanity: The Photographic Journey of George Rodger (text by Bruce Bernard), Phaidon, USA
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1955 - 1999
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Village of the Nubas, Delpire, France/Phaidon, UK
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1997
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George Rodger: The African Photographs (text by Bruce Bernard), The British Council, UK
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1990 - 1991
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The Blitz: The Photography of George Rodger, Viking, UK/E Rutherford: Penguin, USA
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1987
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George Rodger, Magnum Opus: Fifty Years in Photojournalism, Dirk Nishen, UK and Germany
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1975
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World of the Horse (with Judith Campbell), Octopus and Ridge Press, UK/USA
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1974
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George Rodger, Gordon Fraser/Arts Council of Great Britain, UK
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1944
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Desert Journey, The Cresset Press, UK
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1943
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Red Moon Rising, The Cresset Press, UK
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1943
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Far on the Ringing Plains, The Macmillan Company, USA
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