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David Hurn: A Life in Pictures

Documentary celebrating the life and career of world-renowned Magnum photographer David Hurn, possibly Wales's most important living photographer.

The world-renowned Magnum photographer David Hurn is Wales's most important living photographer. This year he is donating his archive to the National Museum Wales, alongside a unique collection of 700 photographs by other photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt and Dorothea Lange. It is a remarkable gift to the nation.

As Magnum Photos celebrates 70 years at the forefront of photojournalism, this film celebrates one of its longest-serving members and profiles David's extraordinary portfolio and bequest from a career spanning 60 years.

David has spent his whole career capturing moments in time. Now 83, the film shows him pursuing new goals in his photography, in Wales and abroad, and reunites him with actress Jane Fonda, 50 years after he photographed her on the film set of Barbarella. David's photographic career began when he photographed the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet state in 1956. His images were published in Picture Post. By the 60s he was one of London's leading young photographers. He took the iconic poster shot of Sean Connery as James Bond, was alongside The Beatles when they filmed A Hard Day's Night and was on set with Jane Fonda.

David was filmed for 主播大秀's Monitor programme by his friend Ken Russell and was at the epicentre of a creative circle including fellow photographers Sir Don McCullin and Philip Jones Griffiths.

David reflects on this dynamic group, his younger self and that period in his life when he was at the heart of the Swinging Sixties.

40 minutes

Last on

Tue 9 Apr 2019 00:15
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  • You know you've made it in photography when this man asks you..."Can we swap?"

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:01

    Oliver Nelson

    Stolen Moment (Remastered)

  • 00:16

    Herbie Hancock

    Cantaloupe Island

  • 00:23

    Miles Davis

    All Blues

  • 00:35

    Lee Morgan

    The Sidewinder

  • 00:38

    John Coltrane

    My Favorite Things

Credits

Producer Molly-Anna Woods
Director Steve Freer
Editor David Rees

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