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About the book >.>.> E.O. Hopp? (1878-1972) was one of the most important and influential photographers of the first half of the twentieth century. Featuring previously unpublished work this book explores Hopp?’s rich contribution to the history of photography with a selection of strikingly modernist portraits and early street studies. Born in Munich in 1878 and resident in Britain from 1902 Emil Otto Hopp? began his photographic career in 1907 and rose to prominence photographing eminent figures from the worlds of literature politics and the arts. Less well-known are his sensitive studies of ordinary people that he made on location and at his London studio. Hopp?’s photo-stories of the early 1930s featured in the new picture-led reportage magazines such as Weekly Illustrated. Humorous and affectionate these. masterful observations had a major impact on later photographers and reflect his long-term friendship with the playwright George Bernard Shaw. With new research into his life and work and illustrated with 150 remarkable portraits Hopp? Portraits firmly establishes Hopp? as a great figure in the history of photographic portraiture. (MP)