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Arts > Photo > War photographers > Tony McGrath 1940-2021
After his career as a photographer, Tony McGrath was the Observer’s picture editor from 1981 to 1993. He is pictured here at the paper’s offices, circa 1992.
Photograph: Mike King The Observer
Life and death looked straight in the eye: the legacy of Tony McGrath The Observer’s picture editor from 1981 to 1993, who has died aged 80, saw photographic reportage as an agent of change. He first started taking photos for the paper in 1968, covering war, famine and the icons of his age G Sun 25 Jul 2021 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/25/
Schoolchildren from Belfast being bused to a refugee centre to escape the Troubles in September 1971.
Photograph: Tony McGrath
Life and death looked straight in the eye: the legacy of Tony McGrath The Observer’s picture editor from 1981 to 1993, who has died aged 80, saw photographic reportage as an agent of change. He first started taking photos for the paper in 1968, covering war, famine and the icons of his age G Sun 25 Jul 2021 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/25/
Man throwing a firebomb during the Battle of the Bogside, Derry, Northern Ireland, August 1969.
Photograph: Tony McGrath
Life and death looked straight in the eye: the legacy of Tony McGrath The Observer’s picture editor from 1981 to 1993, who has died aged 80, saw photographic reportage as an agent of change. He first started taking photos for the paper in 1968, covering war, famine and the icons of his age G Sun 25 Jul 2021 09.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/25/
Anthony Joseph McGrath Ireland, UK 1940-2021
photographer and believer in photojournalism as an agent for change
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Observer picture editor and a celebrated photographer whose work documenting the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s helped to inspire Live Aid
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Dublin-born McGrath nurtured the work of a new generation of Observer photographers after cutting his teeth covering the conflicts in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Yom Kippur, East Pakistan and Vietnam wars.
In the latter, he survived an attack that killed the US troops he was travelling with, bringing to an end his time as a war photographer.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jul/25/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/25/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jul/25/
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