George Rodger (19 March 1908 – 24 July 1995) was a British photojournalist noted for his work in Africa and for photographing the mass deaths at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the Second World War.
Table of Contents
- 1 Life and career
- 1.1 George Rodger Nuba & Latuka: The Color Photographs
- 1.2 Ruby Braff; George Barnes Quartet Salutes Rodgers and Hart; 1975 vinyl LP
- 1.3 Plays George Gershwin and Rodgers and Hart
- 1.4 Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology
- 1.5 Laboratory Hemostasis: A Practical Guide for Pathologists
- 1.6 Chabrier - Briséis / Padmore, Rodgers, Harries, Keenlyside, George, Glasgow BBC Scottish SO
- 1.7 Favorites Of The George Rodgers Trio
- 1.8 Float On With Us ((Instrumental Plus Mix))
- 1.9 Humanity and Inhumanity (PHOTOGRAPHY)
- 1.10 Reader's Digest The Golden Age of Melody Irving Berling, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter 4 CD set
Life and career
Born in Hale, Cheshire, of Scottish and German descent, Rodger went to scholarly at St. Bees School in Cumberland. He united the British Merchant Navy and sailed in this area the world. While sailing, Rodger wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate his travelogues. He was unable to get his travel writing published; after a quick spell in the United States, where he failed to find work during the Depression, Rodger returned to Britain in 1936. In London he found affect as a photographer for the BBC’s The Listener magazine. In 1938 he had a brief stint lively for the Black Star Agency.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Rodger had a mighty urge to chronicle the war. His photographs of the Blitz gained him a job as a charge correspondent for Life magazine, based in the United States. Rodger covered the prosecution in West Africa extensively and, towards the terminate of the war, followed the Allies’ liberation of France, Belgium and Holland. He after that covered the retreat of the British forces in Burma. He was probably the isolated British feat reporter/photographer allowed to write a story on the Burma Road by travelling upon it into China, with special entry from the Chinese military.[citation needed]
Rodger was one of many photographers to enter the incorporation camp at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, the first swine members of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit. His photographs of the survivors and piles of corpses were published in Life and Time magazines and were deeply influential in showing the truth of the death camps. Rodger forward-looking recalled how, after spending several hours at the camp, he was amazed to realise that he had spent most of the time looking for graphically gratifying compositions of the piles of bodies lying accompanied by the trees and buildings.
This traumatic experience led Rodger to conclude that he could not sham as a achievement correspondent again. Leaving Life, he travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these areas’ wildlife and peoples.
Last update 2021-08-06