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Arts > Photo > 20th, 21st century > UK > David Hurn
Six Bells. The last chapel walk. The congregation from various chapels join the walk as the singers pass their chapel. This was the last one I heard of in Wales. 1975
Photograph: David Hurn Magnum Photos
David Hurn is one of the UK’s most celebrated reportage photographers – and his images of his native Wales are full of wit, energy and love He also founded a respected documentary photography course, which he taught for 15 years in Newport. Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures G Wednesday 1 June 2016 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
Abertillery. Sarah enjoys the realities of never ending fantasies. 1974
Photograph: David Hurn Magnum Photos
David Hurn is one of the UK’s most celebrated reportage photographers – and his images of his native Wales are full of wit, energy and love He also founded a respected documentary photography course, which he taught for 15 years in Newport. Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures G Wednesday 1 June 2016 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
Cwm. Seniors dance in the local social club. 1998
Photograph: David Hurn Magnum Photos
David Hurn is one of the UK’s most celebrated reportage photographers – and his images of his native Wales are full of wit, energy and love He also founded a respected documentary photography course, which he taught for 15 years in Newport. Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures G Wednesday 1 June 2016 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
Six Bells. Children’s fun on site of old colliery. 1994
Photograph: David Hurn Magnum Photos
David Hurn is one of the UK’s most celebrated reportage photographers – and his images of his native Wales are full of wit, energy and love He also founded a respected documentary photography course, which he taught for 15 years in Newport. Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures G Wednesday 1 June 2016 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
Cwm. The women’s choir. 1998
Photograph: David Hurn Magnum Photos
David Hurn is one of the UK’s most celebrated reportage photographers – and his images of his native Wales are full of wit, energy and love He also founded a respected documentary photography course, which he taught for 15 years in Newport. Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures G Wednesday 1 June 2016 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
Abertillery. Children’s party. 1974
Photograph: David Hurn Magnum Photos
David Hurn is one of the UK’s most celebrated reportage photographers – and his images of his native Wales are full of wit, energy and love He also founded a respected documentary photography course, which he taught for 15 years in Newport. Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures G Wednesday 1 June 2016 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
Cwm. Easter Chapel walk and the placing of the cross on the top of the local mountain. 1999
Photograph: David Hurn Magnum Photos
David Hurn is one of the UK’s most celebrated reportage photographers – and his images of his native Wales are full of wit, energy and love He also founded a respected documentary photography course, which he taught for 15 years in Newport. Land of my fathers: Wales at work, rest and play – in pictures G Wednesday 1 June 2016 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/01/
Queen Charlotte’s Ball (London, 1967)
The highlight of what was called ‘the debutante season’ and ‘coming out’. It had its roots in the 18th century when, around 1780, the king, George III, held a ball for his wife’s birthday. It was proposed that the well bred and prettiest girls should be presented at court to the Queen, in order that they could meet a suitable marriage partner, known as the ‘debs’ delights’
Photograph: David Hurn
Dolly Partons and debutantes: a Welshman’s view of Arizona – in pictures Photograph: David Hurn/Magnum Photos
David Hurn moved from wet, socialist Wales to a scorching, rightwing state in the US – but his eye for life’s eccentricities remained unchanged G Tue 23 May 2023 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/23/
David Hurn
one of the UK’s most celebrated reportage photographers – and his images of his native Wales are full of wit, energy and love.
Hurn was born in Surrey but grew up and still lives in Wales.
He is dyslexic.
He joined the army, but eventually ended up working for the Reflex photo agency.
He began his career in the 1950s, covering current affairs such as the Hungarian revolution, but moved away from news journalism.
His breakthrough moment was, as he told Vice, ‘a photo in a copy of Picture Post.
In the army we were led to believe that all Russians ate their children, but I saw this photo of a Russian army officer buying his wife a hat in a department store.
And I started to cry ...
Suddenly I realised that I believed much more in the photo than I did in any propaganda.
I realised that photography really can move people, just by being accurate’.
He had various glamorous assignments, including photographing James Bond posters and Jane Fonda filming Barbarella, and hiding Ringo Starr from paparazzi.
But he also celebrated the less starry world of ordinary people in Wales.
‘I decided that if I went around Wales, and maybe made some books – one on the places people live, one on the way people live, one on the landscape they live in and so on – then maybe I could eventually come to understand what that culture is,’ he said.
‘And that’s basically what I do. I enjoy photographing the mundane’
He also founded a respected documentary photography course, which he taught for 15 years in Newport.
In the joy and warmth he depicts, he seems to take his own advice in his influential book On Being a Photographer:
‘Individual picture can be very important even when rationally, intellectually made, but the bodies of work, the lifetime achievements of a photographer, which impress me most are those based in love as well as knowledge’
‘In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art;
it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world’, he claims
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