John Phillips (photographer)

French by birth, John Phillips was born in Algeria, to a Welsh emigre father and an American mother.

He spent his early childhood in an Arab world, before his family moved to France in 1925, first to Paris and then to Nice.

He documented the expulsion of Jews and the destruction and sacking of the Jewish Quarter that took place during the Battle for Jerusalem during the 1947–1949 Palestine war.

[5] John Phillips has been described as the "grand-godfather of photo-journalism, a master of lenses and multiple languages; elegant, exuberant and chrome-steel effectual, who has recorded in his own peripatetic way some of the freshest footprints of history.

The book was published posthumously by Scalo as "Free Spirit in a Troubled World"[6] In 2010 the United States Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating WW II cartoonist Bill Mauldin.