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Bryan Wharton was one
of the star photographers of the Sunday Times recruited by the
new ownership of Lord Thomson and editorship of Harold Evans.
Invited to join the paper in 1964 after four years with the Daily
Express - the paper was anxious to inject more dynamism into
its news and pictorial coverage.
At the Daily Express
Wharton had covered the Great Train Robbery and Profumo Affair.
At the Sunday Times he covered the Six Days War and the
Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, and the Aberfan disaster in
Wales as part of 19 years of travel and photography. His work
was also published in major magazines such as Life, Paris-Match
and Stern.
He held a successful
major one-man show in London in 1992, which also travelled to
the Writers Museum in Dublin. Cal McCrystal commented on his
portraiture: 'Wharton's genius is in drawing out his subject's
hidden humours or repressed moods and recording them before the
carapace snaps shut again. So far as I am aware, none of his
subjects berated him for such intimate exposure. Many joined
his formidable string of friends '
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