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Cup is currently under way) and
images of D-Day in this 75th
anniversary year. Images of royals
and British royals in particular are
among the most popular genre.
Melanie has a shifting top 10
of her favourite photographs.
Among them an image by renowned
photojournalist Terry Fincher
(pretty much every photographer
in here is renowned): a scene of
Carravaggion-quality captured on
35mm film of Marine chaplain Eli
Tavesian giving communion to
marine Louis A Loya, at Forward
Command Post in Hue, Vietnam,
- It’s also a favourite of the
Archive Vice President and
Melanie’s boss, Matthew Butson.
It was to Matthew that Fincher (one
of the many photographers he knew
personally) confessed to shooting
the image from the hip – it still
didn’t need cropping. A John
Chillingworth image is another of
Melanie’s favourites: a controlled
test reveals the frightening
speed with which clothes can An image by the renowned photojournalist, Terry Fincher, showing a marine chaplain giving holy communion
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