The History Hour, BBC World Service: 'Amazing photographs and the people who took them'

  • Pippa Oldfield

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Description

From BBC website: 'Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History stories. We focus on some of the world’s best known photographs - and the photographers who took them. We find out why Lee Miller was in Hitler’s bath in the dying days of World War Two; and historian Dr Pippa Oldfield discusses the women who were the pioneers of war photography. Also, Sir Don McCullin tells the story behind one of his most famous images of the Vietnam War'.

Contributors:
Antony Penrose, Lee Miller's son and biographer
Sir Don McCullin, photographer
Dr Pippa Oldfield, photo-historian
Manthia Diawara, filmmaker
Jonathan Kane, son of photographer Art Kane
Ming Smith, photographer

Subject

I was invited to contribute to the omnibus edition of Witness History, discussing Mexican Revolution photographer Sara Castrejón; Vogue War Correspondent Lee Miller; and contemporary Azerbaijani photographer Rena Effendi, whose documentary work includes the Russo-Georgian War of 2008.

Period20 Jun 2023

Media contributions

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Media contributions

  • TitleThe History Hour: Amazing photographs and the people who took them
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletBBC World Service
    Media typeRadio
    Duration/Length/Size52 mins
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date20/06/23
    DescriptionContribution to BBC World Service radio programme. From BBC website: 'We find out why Lee Miller was in Hitler’s bath in the dying days of World War Two; and historian Dr Pippa Oldfield discusses the women who were the pioneers of war photography.'

    Other contributors included Antony Penrose, Lee Miller's son and biographer, and Sir Don McCullin, photographer.
    Producer/AuthorMax Pearson (presenter)
    URLhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4w55
    PersonsPippa Oldfield