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A cofounder of Magnum Photos, George Rodger had none of the flamboyance of his business partner, Robert Capa; accordingly, this biography has fewer women and less alcohol than the recent portrait of the kinetic Capa, Blood and Champagne by Alex Kershaw [BKL Je 1 & 15 03]. Yet Rodger was an intriguing character possessed of the itinerant spirit so closely associated with photojournalists. He knocked about the world as a seaman and factory worker before becoming a photographer at the outset of World War II. According to Naggar, he seems to have regarded his combat coverage as more of a duty, while, for Capa, it was a deadly attraction. After immortalizing on film the horrors of the Blitz and Bergen-Belsen, Rodger devoted his career to his true passion, peoples of Africa, out of which came Village of the Nubas (1955; republished 1999). Granted access to Rodger's papers, Naggar includes Rodger's blemishes (she found anti-Semitism in his letters), rendering a complete portrait of his significance to a formative period in the history of photojournalism. Gilbert Taylor
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