Who is the man in the jeep with George Rodger at the liberation of Paris

June 12, 2020 3:16 PM

Who the man in the civilian suit and dark glasses sitting the back of the jeep where George Rodger is standing photographing the crowd at the liberation of Paris in 1944?

Who the man in the civilian suit and dark glasses sitting the back of the jeep where George Rodger is standing photographing the crowd at the liberation of Paris in 1944?

Here is a link to the photo - it's the second photo on the page

posted by Quillcards to Society & Culture (3 answers total)

Response by poster: I seem to have messed up the link to the photo, so here is the link again
posted by Quillcards at 3:19 PM on June 12, 2020

Larger photo (at Magnum Photos, the agency Rodger co-founded in 1947; Magnum may have the information)
Possibly photographer/photo editor John G. Morris?
posted by Iris Gambol at 3:59 PM on June 12, 2020 [1 favorite]

So a biography of George Rodger describes liberation day and says that he rode in to Paris on a German Packard with photographer Robert Capa and correspondent Charles Wertenbaker.

Though that book describes the photograph being taken later in the day by Bresson, my uneducated guess would be Capa based on the image search.
posted by Think_Long at 4:04 PM on June 12, 2020 [1 favorite]