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Title
Photographs and contact sheets by John Chillingworth for INGOT picture story "Men at Work: The Bessemer Platform"
Reference
BSIM/2/1
Production date
10-03-1957 - 10-03-1957

Creator

Chillingworth, John Biography Biography
John Chillingworth was born in London on 18th January 1928 and served as an Army photographer during the Second World War. He worked for 'Picture Post’ from 1949-1956, producing over 400 photo-essays for the magazine. The Getty Images' Hulton Archive holds four hundred picture essays from his days with Picture Post, which used narrative photography to inform, entertain and influence the conscience of its readers. After 1956, Chillingworth concentrated on journalism and continued to take photographs on a freelance basis. He ran his own management consultancy from the 1970s. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and passed away on 6th April 2025, aged 97 years.

Scope and Content
Contact sheets and photographic prints taken by John Chillingworth for the June 1958 issue of INGOT magazine. The images were taken for the picture story “Men at Work: The Bessemer Platform”, pp. 30-33. The article outlines the process of making steel, as outlined by Henry Bessemer in 1856, and contains seven photographs by John Chillingworth. This series contains eleven contact sheets and four photographic prints which were published in this magazine. It also contains three prints which were not published in the final article
Extent
11 contact sheets, 7 photographs
Language
English
Level of description
SERIES
Repository name
National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Conditions governing access
Open Access
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions