Picture Post sent Bert Hardy to photograph the Korean War. His photos resulted in the editor losing his job for negatively portraying an ally.
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David Douglas Duncan | Korean War
On the morning of 25 June 1950, when the North Korean tanks rolled across the 38th […]
Pusan by Bert Hardy, 1951
In 1950, editor of Picture Post Tom Hopkinson sent reporter James Cameron and photographer Bert […]
Veterans Korea
David Douglas Duncan’s motto for shooting war photographs was ‘‘Be close—be fast—be Lucky, Easy, always […]
Grief and Sorrow in Haktong
Rarely did such an emotional photo emerge from a war. It was taken in the […]
The Taedong Bridge, 1950
During the Korean War, across a destroyed bridge whose girders were still intact and connecting, people fled from the advancing Communists.