In 1935, Tom Blau, a young Hungarian Jew, fled his native Berlin for London. Once there, he wasted no time in pursuing his love of photography, first securing a job as a freelance image researcher before helping to establish the renowned international photo library, Pictorial Press. Blau himself was a keen image-maker, and upon securing British citizenship at the end of the Second World War, decided to launch his own independent photo agency, Camera Press, to represent and…
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