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George Rodger
A Station Commander Sleeping in London, 1940
"A Station Commander Sleeping in London", 1940. © George Rodger / Magnum Photos.
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Introduction
Taken by George Rodger, future co-founder of the renowned Magnum Photos agency, the photograph departs starkly from traditional wartime iconography. Instead of immortalizing the roar of bombs, aerial dogfights, or the dynamism of military action, George Rodger chose to document the human toll of the conflict through the prism of physical and psychological exhaustion.
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