- Henry Grant
Henry Grant (b. 1907, d. 2004) was a British freelance photographer who was active around London from just after
World War Two cite web
title=Exploring 20th century London: Henry Grant
url=http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=conInformationRecord.70
publisher= [http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk 20th century London] ] through the 1970scite web
title=Photograph of a Jewish demonstration
url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Learning/Learningonline/features/general/picturebank/6-Twentieth/20c_jewish.htm
date=1985] .His work was entirely in black & white, aimed at the newspaper market. He sold as a freelance photojournalist through a Fleet Street news agency. His wife, Rose Grant, was a reporter for the popular communist newspaper The Daily Worker. Their political interests influenced his frequent choice of politically and socially significant subjects. Stylistically he was known for his spontaneous and candid photographs, often taken in the intervals between his "real" assignments.
In later years, he and Rose often collaborated together in the
Times Educational Supplement .He retired professionally in 1980, but still took photographs. In 1986, his archive of 80,000 photographs was purchased by the
Museum of London .cite web
title=The Henry Grant collection
url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/1700Today/Photographs.htm
publisher=Museum of London ]Photographs of particular note document the construction of the
Festival of Britain .cite web
title=The Skylon in construction
url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/fob/hgrant.html
author=Henry Grant
publisher=Museum of London
format=photo
date=1951] cite web
title=Building the Festival of Britain
url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/festival/constructing.htm
author=Henry Grant
publisher=Museum of London
date=1951]References
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