From Observing the Crowd: Photographs by Bob Collins , now on at the Museum of London.
The Changing of the Guard, outside Buckingham Palace, 1954.
Bob Collins was a photographer who lived from 1924 to 2002.
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The morning rush hour, Victoria Railway Station, c.1955.
Born in East Ham, Collins embraced photography from the age of 7.
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Billingsgate Fish Market porters, Lower Thames Street, 1958.
Later, working in watchmaking in Covent Garden, he eagerly pursued his passion for photographing post-war London.
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Children gathered around a comics stall, Romford Market, c.1947.
He achieved his first published illustrated article in Amateur Photographer in 1952 and regularly wrote about photographic technique.
Bob Collins/Museum of London / Via museumoflondon.org.uk
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