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London in the 1940s and this atmospheric photo taken by Herbert Mason shows an Austin Motor Car in Piccadilly Circus London .
Photograph by Herbert Mason – The Northcliffe Collection
Price range: £70.00 through £293.00
Price range: £70.00 through £293.00
London in the 1940s and this atmospheric photo taken by Herbert Mason shows an Austin Motor Car in Piccadilly Circus London .
Picture from the Northcliffe collection.photograph by Herbert Mason
Herbert Mason 1903-1964
Born in 1903 in Great Yarmouth,England Herbert Mason was the son of Walter Mason, who ran a photography businesses on the seafront and worked for the Yarmouth Mercury.
Herbert joined the Daily Mail in the 1930s as a news photographer covering all types of stories.
On the night of 29 December 1940, Daily Mail photographer Herbert Mason was on fire watch on the roof of Northcliffe House in Fleet Street. He captured what became the defining image of the Blitz – St. Paul’s emerging defiantly from the smoke of surrounding burning buildings. The image appeared in the Daily Mail two days later under the headline ‘St. Paul’s Stands Unharmed in the Midst of the Burning City’. Ironically, only four weeks later, the photograph was reproduced by the Berliner Illustre Zeitung who used it not to show the resilience of the blitzed city, but to show that London was burning to the ground.
After the Blitz Herbert became an official photographer in the Royal Navy sailing to Murmansk with Russian Convoys as well as Malta and Sicily.
He returned to the Daily Mail after the war and became one of their chief photographers covering everything from the wedding of Angela Lansbury in 1949, to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11, and the conflict in Suez in 1956 as well as sporting events, fashion and the trial of Derek Bentley.
Mason worked for the Daily Mail until his death in 1964.
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| Brand | Fleet Street’s Finest |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 8 x 10″ to 40 x 60″ (plus frame and mount) |
| Made in the UK | YES |
| Material | Wood, Perspex |
| Process | A Lambda C-type print |
| Orientation | Landscape |
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London in the 1940s and this atmospheric photo taken by Herbert Mason shows an Austin Motor Car in Piccadilly Circus London .
Photograph by Herbert Mason – The Northcliffe Collection
