Further to my recent posting on the demise of newspaper staff photographers, Peter Wilcock has sent me a picture of the entire Daily Express photographic staff in 1960.
There are 64 snappers in this picture, from the paper's main offices - in London, Manchester and Glasgow - plus other cities.
According to the copy below, which boasted that it was the largest newspaper picture team in the world, "a good photographer is an electric combination of artist and journalist."
That description, "makes your eyes water", writes Peter, adding: "I don't remember ever feeling endowed with such high aspirations doing a Daily Star bingo winner on a Sunday morning in Huddersfield."
For the record, Peter is now living in Ireland, in Sligo, and is still doing "occasional freelance work" between teaching photography online at local colleges.
