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

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When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u