New website: Ron Burton – Press Photographer

By Will Carleton December 30, 2015 Will Carleton

Images by UK press photographer Ron Burton – ’employed by the leading popular national daily newspapers during a career spanning 40 years’ – are now online on a dedicated website RonBurtonPhotographer.com

Why is it important?

At the turn of the 20th century, there was vast growth in press agencies and photographers due to the massive thirst for images in newspapers. Many are still in existence but others have been sold, absorbed or simply disappeared, effectively leaving gaps in the history of this industry… many agency offices were bombed during the WWII London Blitz resulting negative and print files being water damage from the hoses quenching the fires …most archives were in the building basements.

New website: Ron Burton – Press Photographer

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