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Smith also covered stories on British postwar austerity and recovery; refugees from Europe, and child evacuees returning to London. Revelers at [[Lambeth Walk]] celebrating [[Victory in Europe Day|VE Day]] the end of WWII in Europe; English castles; The archaeologist who found a large collection of 3rd century Roman pottery in the [[Alice Holt Forest]] of [[North Wessex Downs|North Hampshire]]; Britiain’s camouflaged pillboxes;<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9lIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23&dq=%22Ian+Smith%22+%22LIFE+photographer%22+-Rhodesia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjugsnhgczfAhWXHDQIHedpAY4Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=%22Ian%20Smith%22&f=false’ Speaking of Pictures: England’s Pillboxes Look Like a Lot of Other Things’. In LIFE, 12 Mar 1945, pps. 12, 13, 14, Vol. 18, No. 11, ISSN 0024-3019, Time Inc.]</ref> and the newly ordained Archbishop of Canterbury.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CUoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25&dq=%22Ian+Smith%22+%22LIFE+photographer%22+-Rhodesia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjugsnhgczfAhWXHDQIHedpAY4Q6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=New%20Archbishop%3B%20Ancient%20Canterbury%20sees%20England’s%2099th%20Primate%20solemnly%20enthroned’&f=false ’Religion: New Archbishop; Ancient Canterbury sees England’s 99th Primate solemnly enthroned’. In LIFE, 14 May 1945, p.79-80, Vol. 18, No. 20, ISSN 0024-3019, Time Inc.]</ref> |
Smith also covered stories on British postwar austerity and recovery; refugees from Europe, and child evacuees returning to London. Revelers at [[Lambeth Walk]] celebrating [[Victory in Europe Day|VE Day]] the end of WWII in Europe; English castles; The archaeologist who found a large collection of 3rd century Roman pottery in the [[Alice Holt Forest]] of [[North Wessex Downs|North Hampshire]]; Britiain’s camouflaged pillboxes;<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9lIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23&dq=%22Ian+Smith%22+%22LIFE+photographer%22+-Rhodesia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjugsnhgczfAhWXHDQIHedpAY4Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=%22Ian%20Smith%22&f=false’ Speaking of Pictures: England’s Pillboxes Look Like a Lot of Other Things’. In LIFE, 12 Mar 1945, pps. 12, 13, 14, Vol. 18, No. 11, ISSN 0024-3019, Time Inc.]</ref> and the newly ordained Archbishop of Canterbury.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CUoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25&dq=%22Ian+Smith%22+%22LIFE+photographer%22+-Rhodesia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjugsnhgczfAhWXHDQIHedpAY4Q6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=New%20Archbishop%3B%20Ancient%20Canterbury%20sees%20England’s%2099th%20Primate%20solemnly%20enthroned’&f=false ’Religion: New Archbishop; Ancient Canterbury sees England’s 99th Primate solemnly enthroned’. In LIFE, 14 May 1945, p.79-80, Vol. 18, No. 20, ISSN 0024-3019, Time Inc.]</ref> |
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== Recognition == |
== Recognition == |
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His 1945 picture |
His 1945 picture for a story ''Evacuees return to London'' was included in the 1955 [[Museum of Modern Art]] show [[The Family of Man|''The Family of Man'']] curated by [[Edward Steichen]] that toured the world and was seen by 9 million visitors; a tiny girl, barely more than a toddler, accompanied by a woman whose legs are the only sign of her presence in the picture, peers through a sturdy farm gate to bid farewell to a steer in the foreground.<ref>{{Cite book | author1=Steichen, Edward | author2=Sandburg, Carl | author3=Norman, Dorothy | author4=Lionni, Leo | author5=Mason, Jerry | author6=Stoller, Ezra | author7=Museum of Modern Art (New York) | title=The family of man: The photographic exhibition | publication-date=1955 | publisher=Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10809600 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.) | author2=Reitz, Anke, (editor.) | author3=Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) | title=The family of man revisited : photography in a global age | publication-date=2018 | publisher=London I.B.Tauris | isbn=978-1-78672-297-3 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Sandeen, Eric J | title=Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America | publication-date=1995 | publisher=University of New Mexico Press | edition=1st | isbn=978-0-8263-1558-8 }}</ref> |
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Little is recorded about Smith's personal life or later career. |
Little is recorded about Smith's personal life or later career. There is a [https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/photographer-ian-smith-news-photo/53372554 portrait] of him holding his Rolleiflex at Getty Images photo library. |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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Revision as of 12:24, 1 January 2019
Ian Smith was a Scottish photographer who was on the staff of LIFE magazine 1945-46.[1]
Photographer of politicians
Smith photographed mainly in the UK for LIFE magazine. Many of his subjects were Labour and Conservative politicians including British statesman Harold Macmillan, Minister for Education Ellen Wilkinson, Herbert Morrison, Barbara Ayrton-Gould, and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton. He photographed Brighton Vigilantes leader Harry Cowley speaking at a rally in Hyde Park to protest the housing problem. He produced an extensive series on British politician and Labour party leader Aneurin Bevan[2][3]; also Chairman of the Labour Party Professor Harold J Laski ; Lord Chancellor Lord William Jowitt; British President of the Board of Trade Stafford Cripps; Lord Beaverbrook; Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Ernest Bevin; Independent MPs Tom Driberg and Denis Kendall at the House of Commons; conservative Alexander V E P Montagu; Conservative Party General Director Sir Robert Topping; Conservative Party Vice-Chairman Marjorie Maxse; and Ralph Assheton.
Actors
Actors and movie stars also appeared before his lens, including Margaret Lockwood in her dressing room on the set of Hungry Hill; Actress Deborah Kerr; director Anthony Asquith; director David Lean; designer Roger Furze; director Carol Reed talking with columnist Hedda Hopper; Irish actor Dennis O'Dean in a scene from the movie Odd Man Out; actress Anna Neagle standing in front of a portrait of her during her portrayal of Queen Victoria; Ann Todd; Michael Redgrave, Ronald Shiner and Danny Green talking with Sidney Box and his wife on the set of the movie The Man Within; Irish actress Kathleen Ryan; Stewart Granger; Wendy Hiller; Sidney Gillat on the set of the movie Green for Danger; Jean Simmons; Patricia Roc; Emlyn Williams; and producers Herbert Wilcox and Frank Lander.
British society
Smith also covered stories on British postwar austerity and recovery; refugees from Europe, and child evacuees returning to London. Revelers at Lambeth Walk celebrating VE Day the end of WWII in Europe; English castles; The archaeologist who found a large collection of 3rd century Roman pottery in the Alice Holt Forest of North Hampshire; Britiain’s camouflaged pillboxes;[4] and the newly ordained Archbishop of Canterbury.[5]
Recognition
His 1945 picture for a story Evacuees return to London was included in the 1955 Museum of Modern Art show The Family of Man curated by Edward Steichen that toured the world and was seen by 9 million visitors; a tiny girl, barely more than a toddler, accompanied by a woman whose legs are the only sign of her presence in the picture, peers through a sturdy farm gate to bid farewell to a steer in the foreground.[6][7][8]
Little is recorded about Smith's personal life or later career. There is a portrait of him holding his Rolleiflex at Getty Images photo library.
External links
Getty Images holds a large number of Ian Smith images from the 1940s.
References
- ^ He is last listed on the title page as a staff photographer in LIFE, 30 Dec 1946, p.11, Vol. 21, No. 27, SSN 0024-3019, Time Inc.
- ^ LIFE, 7 May 1951, ISSN 0024-3019, Time Inc
- ^ Kynaston, David (2007), Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (1st ed.), Bloomsbury, p. 275, ISBN 978-0-7475-7985-4
- ^ Speaking of Pictures: England’s Pillboxes Look Like a Lot of Other Things’. In LIFE, 12 Mar 1945, pps. 12, 13, 14, Vol. 18, No. 11, ISSN 0024-3019, Time Inc.
- ^ ’Religion: New Archbishop; Ancient Canterbury sees England’s 99th Primate solemnly enthroned’. In LIFE, 14 May 1945, p.79-80, Vol. 18, No. 20, ISSN 0024-3019, Time Inc.
- ^ Steichen, Edward; Sandburg, Carl; Norman, Dorothy; Lionni, Leo; Mason, Jerry; Stoller, Ezra; Museum of Modern Art (New York) (1955). The family of man: The photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation.
- ^ Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.); Reitz, Anke, (editor.); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) (2018), The family of man revisited : photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-1-78672-297-3
{{citation}}:|author1=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Sandeen, Eric J (1995), Picturing an exhibition : the family of man and 1950s America (1st ed.), University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-1558-8