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Funeral Sir Winston Churchill St Pauls Cathedral London
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2017
<p><span>Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, St Paul’s Cathedral, London </span>was taken by Brian Seed on 30 January 1965 at the state funeral of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It depicts the moment that Churchill’s coffin was carried out of the Great West Door of St Paul’s Cathedral by pallbearers from the Grenadier Guards.</p>
paper print photograph gelatin silver
Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, St Paul’s Cathedral, London
image: 245 × 365 mm
support: 406 × 509 mm
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2017
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<i>Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, St Paul’s Cathedral, London </i>was taken by Brian Seed on 30 January 1965 at the state funeral of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It depicts the moment that Churchill’s coffin was carried out of the Great West Door of St Paul’s Cathedral by pallbearers from the Grenadier Guards.</p>
<p>Brian Seed has spent over thirty years travelling the world as a photojournalist and has worked for <i>Time</i> magazine, <i>Life</i> magazine, <i>Sports Illustrated</i> and <i>Time Life Books</i>. He was co-founder and president (later director) of Click/Chicago, a stock and assignment photo agency now part of Getty Images, and has taught photography at both the Guildford School of Art in Britain and at Columbia College, Chicago.</p>
<p>Helen Delaney<br/>January 2017</p>
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