1000 words behind the photo
Behind the camera: Fred Morley Where: Streets of London Photo Summary: A man carries the milk over rubble while firefighters battle the aftermath of the 32nd straight night of bombing Picture Taken: October 9, 1940Published October 10, 1940 During the opening years of World War II Britain was all that was left against Hitler’s military […]
Behind the camera: Officially Colonel Robert Wilson but later revealed to be Ian Wetherell Where: Northern shoreline of Loch Ness in Scotland, UK Photo Summary: The supposed Loch Ness Monster Picture Taken: April 19, 1934 The story goes that on April 19, 1934, Colonel Robert Wilson, a respectable surgeon, was driving along Loch Ness when […]
Behind the camera: Martin Elliot Where: Birmingham University’s tennis courts in Edgbaston, United Kingdom Photo Summary: Then 18-year-old Fiona Butler (Married and now Fiona Walker) Picture Taken: September of 1976 In September of 1976 aspiring photographer, Martin Elliot convinced, his then-girlfriend, Fiona Butler to pose for a series of cheeky pictures in hopes of creating […]
Behind the camera: Where: Vacanti’s Boston Lab Photo Summary: The Vacanti mouse Picture Taken: August 1997 In August 1997, Joseph Vacanti (now the Director of the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a group of scientists published a ground-breaking paper in the journal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. In […]
Behind the camera: BBC footage Screen Capture Where: Iranian Embassy – 16 Princes Gate, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom Photo Summary: John ‘Mac’ McAleese leading SAS Team 1 into the building Picture Taken: May 5, 1980 The Siege of the Iranian Embassy, located at 16 Princes Gate London, began at 1130 AM on April 30th, […]
Behind the camera: Where: Tour of the coastal defence positions near Hartlepool, UK Photo Summary: Winston Churchill with a Tommy Gun Imperial War Museum, photo no. H2646A Picture Taken: July 31, 1940 With France and its other European Allies out of the war, the UK and its Empire stood by itself against a triumphant Hitler. […]
Behind the camera: Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) He signed his photos ‘Karsh of Ottawa’ Where: Speaker’s chamber in the Canadian House of Commons Photo Summary: A glowering Winston Churchill then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Picture Taken: December 30, 1941 after a speech given to the Canadian House of Commons Most reproduced portrait in history […]
Behind the camera: Herbert Mason Where: St Paul’s Cathedral in London Photo Summary: St Paul’s Cathedral during the German bombing campaign called the Blitz Picture Taken: December 29, 1940 published on December 31, 1940 During the opening years of World War II Britain was all that was left against Hitler’s military Juggernaut. France had already […]