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[Photo credit: Getty Images<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Hopkins joined the RAF photographic unit when war broke out and bought his first Leica while serving in Italy \u2013 describing it as ‘the first camera I can recall handling without a certain feeling of distaste’.<\/p>\n

Matthew Butson, vice-president of Hulton Archive, said he last met Thurston over the summer when he was in ‘fine fettle’.<\/p>\n

He said news of the photographer’s death came as a shock, even at the age of 101.<\/p>\n

Paying tribute, Butson told AP: \u2018The man had no trace of an ego \u2013 a lovely person, very warm, very intelligent and what he didn\u2019t know about art was not worth knowing.<\/p>\n

\u2018He wanted to be a graphic illustrator but the camera paid more than the brush.\u2019<\/p>\n

Butson said Thurston was never a great \u2018self-publicist\u2019 and so was not seen in the same circles as fellow Picture Post<\/em> photographer Bert Hardy, for example.<\/p>\n

Born in 1913, Thurston trained as a magazine illustrator at Brighton College of Art in East Sussex.<\/p>\n

Hopkins’ career as a Fleet Street photographer dates\u00a0back to 1930. <\/p>\n

\u2018However, the clich\u00e9 ridden imagery and ruthless tactics required by successful press photographers of the period didn\u2019t satisfy his creative mind and, disillusioned, he returned to his home town to set up his own photographic business,\u2019 states a Getty Images biography.<\/p>\n

Hopkins freelanced for newspapers and magazines across Europe after the war, working for Picture Post<\/em> from 1949. He became a Picture Post<\/em> \u2018staffer\u2019 in 1951, travelling the world on his reportage assignments.<\/p>\n

\u2018Thurston\u2019s photographs are marked by his sensitive and creative approach, creating first-class records of the human condition,\u2019 adds Getty.<\/p>\n

He lectured in photography after a career in advertising during the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Thurston Hopkins is survived by his wife Grace Robertson, who is also a former Picture Post<\/em> photographer.<\/p>\n\"Thurston\n

Photo credit: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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