John Phillips Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1914 - d. 1996

John Phillips (1914-1996) was a photographer for Life magazine from the 1930s to the 1950s who was known for his war photographs.He was hired by Life in 1936 and his first assignment was to cover Edward VIII's opening of Parliament. His pictures were included in the magazine's first issue (on November 23, 1936) and he went on to cover many events of the Second World War. He photographed Yugoslav guerrilla leader Draza Mihailovich in June 1946 during his Communist show trial in Belgrade. He shot the last images of Antoine de Saint Exupery in 1944. Saint Exupery, days before he disappeared, gave Phillips a manuscript, "Letter to an American" which Phillips eventually donated to France.