Sir Thomas Hopkinson

Sir Thomas Hopkinson (born April 19, 1905, Manchester, Eng.—died June 20, 1990, Oxford, Oxfordshire) was a British editor and a leader in the development of photojournalism. Hopkinson was a freelance journalist until he joined (1934) Hungarian-born editor Stefan Lorant at the Weekly Illustrated. In 1938 the two founded Picture Post, the first British magazine to emphasize pictures over words and to record the lives of ordinary people rather than the aristocracy. As chief editor after...