Birth date : March 18, 1908. Birth place : Hale (Greater Manchester)✈ . Death date : July 25, 1995. Death place : Ashford (Kent)✈ . Field : Photography .Main interests : Photojournalism, Documentary photography. Main subjects : Travel , War . Rodger was one of many photographers to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, the first being 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 highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps. Rodger later recalled how, after spending several hours at the camp, he was appalled to realise that he had spent most of the time looking for graphically pleasing compositions of the piles of bodies lying among the trees and buildings. This traumatic experience led Rodger to conclude that he could not work as a war correspondent again.1
A few pictures
BURMA. Emergency hospital run by Doctor Seagrove set up in a school building. Wounded soldiers from the Chinese Army are treated by Burmese nurses. 1942.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1942
G.B. ENGLAND. London. Steel helmets were worn by all who could get them. Life in London during The Blitz of World War II in1939-40. 1940.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1940
G.B. ENGLAND. London. Westminster. Whitehall. Hitler’s Doom effigy outside the Free French headquarters at 4 Carleton Gardens. Life in London during The Blitz of World War II in 1939-40. 1940.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1940
UGANDA. Pygmies. “Dance of the forest people”. The Bachimbiri and Wagasero dance their own version of a courting dance, the “Kamundere”, before a semi-circle of men of the tribes who kneel before them. 1948.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1948
SOUTH AFRICA. Basutoland(Lesotho). Young Basuto boy wrapped in blankets against the cold on the Thaba Bosiu (Mountain of the Night). 1947. In 1868 Sir Philip Woodehouse, Govenor of of the Cape Colony was authorised to recognise King Moshesh and his Basuto followers as British Subjects. Therby Basutoland became the first of the High Commission territories in South Africa to some under colonial rule. In the past Basutoland was the scene of much tribal fghting, centering around the mountain of Thaba Bosieu (Mountain of the Night).
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1948
SUDAN. A gathering of the Nuba tribe in the Korongo Jebels (mountians). The Nubas pride themselves as wrestlers, their tribal sport. They are powdered in wood ash so they can get a grip of each other. 1949.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1949
HAITI. Port-au-Prince. Young Haitian girl. 1950.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1950
INDONESIA. BALI. Ubud. Young girl in Ubud marketplace. 1953
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1953
JORDAN. Emir Abdullah playing chess.1941.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1941
Africa. Sudan. Aluma Plateau. 1954. Line of Bari women.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos XY-15 March 29, 2006
ALGERIA, 1957. Through the windscreen on route to In-Salah.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1957
ALGERIA. Sahara. Palmeries of Kerzaz near the Great Western Erg. 1957.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1957
BURMA. Shan States. World War II. A bamboo house built on stilts on Inle Lake. 1942.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1942
INDONESIA. Bali. Two young Balineese girls rest by rice paddies under the sacred mountain Gunung Agung near the village of Iseh. 1953.
© George Rodger / Magnum Photos June 15, 1953
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[ 1 ] - Wikipedia - George Rodger [English]