A star is born

John Wade looks at the Rolleiflex, its legend and its legacy

BLAST FROM THE PAST

This week the AP time machine travels back to this month in 1967 and 1985

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When Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill set out in 1974 to meet and interview the ‘movers and shakers’ of 20th century photography (see Dialogue with Legends, AP 1 April) they had no idea that the project would take four years and become a unique archive that is still in print. Paul Hill describes the interview with British photojournalist George Rodger, followed by selected extracts from the recorded encounter