Bert Hardy's photographs - in pictures
The photographer Bert Hardy would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. Though a gifted war photographer, Hardy’s spontaneous and sharp images of people in everyday situations were more characteristic of his work. An exhibition of his images is at the Photographers’ Gallery in London from 4 April to 23 May
-
British sailors taking shore leave on Gibraltar visit the Suiza Bar to watch a Spanish dancer perform. The entertainers were under contract and had return over the border by 11 o'clock
Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images
-
Millions Like Her, Birmingham, 1951
Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images
-
Pretty Girls of Leicester, 1948
Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images
-
People bid farewell to their loved ones at Paddington station in London during the second world war, 23 May 1942
Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images
-
-
Too Many Spivs, 1954
Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images
-
Maidens in Waiting, Blackpool, 1951
Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images
-
Children in the Gorbals, Glasgow, 1948
Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images
-
Two women examine buttons at Lock and Company, a shop in Piccadilly, London, in 1953
Photograph: Bert Hardy /Gety Images
-
-
Helen Bush, whose mother does not approve of evacuation of children to the country, helps Parson French salvage clothes from a bombed house in London's East End
Photograph: Bert Hardy/Getty Images
-
Grand Hotel, Torquay, 1947
Photograph: Bert Hardy /Getty Images
