George Rodger
Plates contributed
The 2 plates attributed to George Rodger in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0032 | Kordofan | Marriage and childbirth | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0185 | French Equatorial Africa | Work | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Two plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-06): photo-0032 (Section 4 Pregnancy, Kordofan / central Sudan — credited ‘Magnum, British’), photo-0185 (Section 17 Woman’s Work, French Equatorial Africa — credited ‘Magnum, LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL, British’). Checklist nationality: British. Born 1908; died 1995 per src-icp-rodger-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-06). The Magnum directory (src-magnum-photographer-bios, in repo, fetched 2026-04-24) gives the death date as 24 July 1995 in Kent, England. Co-founded Magnum Photos in 1947 with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, David ‘Chim’ Seymour, and William Vandivert. First photographer to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (April 1945) per src-magnum-photographer-bios (fetched 2026-04-24). Both FoM plates derive from his postwar African reportage.
External biography
https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/george-rodger/
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