About this artwork
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artist:Bert HardyEnglish (1913 - 1995)
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title:Boy leap-frogging gravestone
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Silver gelatine print
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measurements:19.50 x 29.10 cm
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object type:
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accession number:PGP 90.7
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Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy
London-born Hardy was a Cockney who had a great talent for getting on with the people he had to photograph. In 1942 the editor of Picture Post, Tom Hopkinson, took him on after testing him on an assignment to photograph London during the Blitz. Hardy went on to cover more of the Second World War,...
