British Photographers

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I was interested to read Snapper's comments on the British press presence in Normandy on the 1944 thread. Earlier in the war, there seems to have been very much a reliance on official photographers with unwieldy equipment.

 

The IWM on-line archive rather handily allows searching on the basis of photographer.

 

I came across this picture (presumably a self portrait) of the then Lieutenant (later Captain) Keating taken in France in 1940 where many of the well-known pictures were taken by him. Is that his light-meter in his hand ? He seems to have had a particular interest in vehicles in general and motorcycles in particular (Top Man in my opinion !) By searching under his name, it is possible to follow his progress in France, Norway, North Africa and Italy (don't know what happened to him after that).

 

 

 

 

 

He seems to have been closest to the action in Tunisia. His pictures are useful for restorers but rarely make much impression as photo journalism.