A GROUP OF 13 VINTAGE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PEACE CAMPAIGNER AND PHILOSOPHER 1955 – 1962 .

Sizes vary per – most approx 22 x 18cm. A group of original b/w pictures with verso “reportage” explanations – the subjects vary from official portraits “by Gaby of Montreal” to sit down protests where Russell was arrested and, then later, jailed for nailing a proclamation to the doors of the UK Defence Ministry door a la Knox. Others show him appealing to a mass meeting of dockers not entranced by his early breakthrough research in number theory and logic but more his later popular philosophy books such as “Why I am not a Christian”, his socialist politics and tv appearances which made him into a well-known figure in the UK and abroad. He used his fame to protest against major areas of political concern as these documentary images show well. All photographs in very good condition.