McCullin was largely untutored in photography, which makes his ability to wring a handful of stupendous images from everywhere he went even more admirable. Time and familiarity have not dulled their power: the Cartier-Bressonesque shot of a Cypriot militiaman running alongside a cinema; a grenade-thrower in Vietnam; malnourished children during the Biafran war. Through these images, you get a distillation of the hottest areas of the cold war.
