Images made for 'Bert Hardy at Work: The Picture Post Years'

Made:
1938-1956
maker:
Bert Hardy

A collection of contact sheets and prints, 1938-1956, incorporated in the exhibition `Bert Hardy at Work: The Picture Post Years', NMPFT, 1985.

Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Contact sheet cut into two strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Contact sheet cut into two strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Night of the Blitz:." Originally published in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Story titled "Fire-Fighters!", about fire fighters during the London Blitz. Caption in magazine reads: "The night is dark. The city is silent. On the roofs of high buildings stand the spotters. Overhead the pulsing drone of enemy bombers. Suddenly a bomb falls, then another. Somewhere, a burning building starts to light up the sky. Immediately the warning is given."

The Night of the Blitz

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Firemen Rush Down to Man the Engines." Originally published in Picture Post, February 1, 194. Story titled "Fire-Fighters!", about fire fighters during the London Blitz. Caption in magazine reads: "The bells ring. The indicators light up. In a few seconds the firemen are in the Appliance Room and manning their engines."

Firemen Rush Down to Man the Engines

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Man on the Ladder: In Clouds of Smoke and Steam He Faces the Fire Alone." Originally published in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Story titled "Fire-Fighters!", about fire fighters during the London Blitz. Caption in magazine reads: "All night long they have fought the fire. They have fought in the streets streaming with water. They have fought it within buildings blazing like a furnace. On to the flames they have poured a hundred thousand gallons of water, concentrated at colossal pressure. And still the fight goes on. From our rule of anonymity we except these pictures. They were taken by A. Hardy [sic], one of our own cameramen."

The Man on the Ladder

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Details of the Call Are Charted Up." Originally published in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Story titled "Fire-Fighters!", about fire fighters during the London Blitz. Caption in magazine reads: "On the Mobilising Board at District Control, a girl moves a pin. Each pin means a pump. Each move means another engine at the fire."

Details of the Call Are Charted Up

1941
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "A Drop." Originally published in Picture Post, August 1, 1953. Story titled "Picture Post Takes a River Trip to Southend". Image shows a group of four men enjoying beer during a pleasure boat cruise along the Thames to Southend. Caption in magazine reads: "A drop or two of what you fancy, you can keep all your concert party artistes."

A Drop

1953
Chromogenic print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "As the Sun Sets." Originally published in Picture Post, September 15, 1956. Story titled "Where the Rice is Sweet", about rice harvesting in Portugal. Caption in magazine reads: "As the sun sets the last rice is carried onto the wagons. Once its cultivation, thought to spread malaria, was banned. Now it is a major item in the trade balance."

As the Sun Sets

1956
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "Millions Like Her." Originally published in Picture Post, January 13, 1951. Story titled "Millions Like Her". Image shows Birmingham shop girl Betty Burden, speaking to a neighbourhood boy from the window of the family home.

Millions Like Her

1951
Contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Is There a British Colour Bar?" Picture Post, July 2, 1949.

Is There a British Colour Bar - Contact sheet

1949
Contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Is There a British Colour Bar?" Picture Post, July 2, 1949.

Is There a British Colour Bar - Contact sheet

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "And No-one's Taking a Chance." Image shows civilians coming out of a house with their hands up, following the liberation of Incheon during the Korean War. Originally published in Picture Post, October 7, 1950.

South Korean Civilians After Liberation of Incheon

1950
Silver gelatin contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985.Photos taken with a Box Brownie camera in Blackpool. Originally published in Picture Post, July 7, 1951.

Blackpool - Taken on a Box Brownie

1951
Silver gelatin contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Photos of Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Philip. Printed in Picture Post, November 29, 1947.

Wedding of Princess Elizabeth

1947
Contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image shows how Hardy produced the panoramic photo of Queen Elizabeth II's visit to the Paris Opera in 1957. Hardy had no wide-angle lens, so he took consecutive photographs of different sections of the scene. These separate shots were joined up in a jigsaw to create the picture below. Originally published in Picture Post, April 20, 1957.

How Bert Hardy Photographed the Queen's Visit to Paris

20 April 1957
Contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Is There a British Colour Bar?" Picture Post, July 2, 1949.

Is There a British Colour Bar - Contact sheet

1949
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image shows two young boys in the Gorbals slums in Glasgow. Published in Picture Post, January 31, 1948.

The Gorbals

31 January 1948
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image from the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Published in Picture Post, November 29, 1947.

Wedding of Princess Elizabeth

1947
Contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image shows Queen Elizabeth II visiting the Paris Opera. Originally published in Picture Post, April 20, 1957.

The Queen's Visit to Paris

20 April 1957
Silver gelatin print by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985, titled "The Overcrowding that is Typical of Conditions in the Coloured Quarters of Some British Towns." Originally published in Picture Post, July 2, 1949. Story titled "Is There a British Colour Bar?", about racism in Britain. Caption in magazine reads: "Mrs. Johnson lives with two daughters, whose husbands are seamen, and eleven grandchildren. She and six grandchildren sleep in three beds in this room: Mrs. Johnson and two children in the bed, top right, three children in the bed on the left, and an older grand-daughter in the bed in the foreground."

The Overcrowding that is Typical of Conditions in the Coloured Quarters of Some British Towns

1949

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Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1991-5065
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
type:
photographic ephemera
credit:
National Science and Media Museum, Bradford

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