Elizabeth David
1 portrait of Elizabeth David
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Elizabeth David
by Madame Hassia
bromide print, 1943-1944
15 1/2in. x 11 5/8in. (392 mm x 296 mm)
Given by Elizabeth David, 1992
Photographs Collection
NPG x7708
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This portrait was taken whilst David was living in Cairo. Madame Hassia was one of the first Egyptian female photographers and a member of the left-wing, modernist Art and Liberal Society.
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- Photograph of the Month: December 2013 (2 December 2013 - 30 December 2013)
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The War effort continues with women recruited to the Home Guard and Ernie Bevin introducing conscription of miners as coal output continues to flag.There is panic when a new anti aircraft weapon is heard for the first time in London and 173 people die in the crush to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
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Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb is used during Operation Chastise - the Dam busters Raid - to destroy three dams in the Ruhr area of Germany. The raid was considered a success, knocking out hydroelectric power, cutting off the water supply to industry and causing devastation through flooding. The operation also, however, cost the allies many lives, and the bouncing bomb was not used again.International
The invasion of Sicily is successful thanks to Operation Mincemeat, in which false documents were planted on the body of a dead airman to mislead Germany into thinking that the Allied target was Sardinia. The invasion led to the fall of Mussolini and Italy joining the Allies.42,000 German civilians are killed in a firestorm in Hamburg caused by the Allied bombing in Operation Gomorrah.
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Susan Day
19 October 2020, 09:29
Many years ago, I knew Madame Hassia in Paris. An Egyptian photographer, she showed me many of the portraits she had taken of prominent Egyptian citizens, including several who inspired the characters in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.