To the four corners
Subtitle: the memoirs of a news photographer
By: with a foreword by Sir Philip Gibbs.
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 1933
Place of publication: London
Subjects: Photography
Description: Autobiography of Bernard Grant, one of the three Grant brothers who was employed by the Daily Mirror Newspaper, the first UK daily paper to use photography and photo-journalism  on its pages.  Bernard Grant  joined the paper in 1906, when photographers were sent out on engagements in horse drawn cabs; he lived to see photographers flying across Europe at 200 miles per hour and transmit their pictures directly back to the  office by photo- telephony. He and his brothers travelled all around the world in the service of “The Daily Mirror”.

The book tells of how Bernard Grant obtained some of his greatest images: -
His pictures of the great Messina earthquake to which 77,000 lost their lives, the first to reach London;
Exclusive pictures of Dr Crippen under arrest: 
“On duty” at Sidney Street siege, and Official photographer attached to the Grand Fleet in the war:
Bernard Grant died on the 26th September 1936 of cancer.
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