Gerry Badger (1948, 13 June - ) was born - UK, Northampton. British 20th century photographer.
Karl Blossfeldt (1865, 13 June - 1932, 9 December) was born - Germany, Harz, Schielo. German biologist photographer best known for his highly detailed plant photographs. In 1928 he published ‘Urformen Der Kunst. Photographische Pflanzenbilder‘ (Berlin) and this along with the 1932 ‘Wundergarten der Natur‘ (More...
Adolphe Braun (1812, 13 June - 1877, 31 December) was born - France, Besançon. A textile designer who in 1853 took up photography. He took a series of 300 flower studies as an aid to artists and designers. He also became a major supplier of reproductions of artistic works and scenic views.
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Christo (1935, 13 June - ) was born - Bulgaria, Gabrovo. Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude have been influential in the art world with large scale projects that use the natural environment, urban settings or individual buildings. An essential part of the process has been the documentation of the More...
Alberto Henschel (1827, 13 June - 1882, 30 June) was born. German, active in Recife, Brazil, 1866-1882. Took a large number of carte de visites of slaves.
Jeanne-Claude (1935, 13 June - 2009, 18 November) was born - French Morocco, Casablanca (now Morocco). Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude have been influential in the art world with large scale projects that use the natural environment, urban settings or individual buildings. An essential part of the process has been the documentation of the More...
Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894, 13 June - 1986, 12 September) was born - France, Courbevoie (near Paris). French photographer and painter. He provided an insightful collection of images of his family and their friends as they carried out their madcap activities. His early use and expertise with Autochrome, an early color process, was exceptional.
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831, 13 June - 1879, 5 November) was born - Great Britain. Scottish physicist who worked on the theories of color and light. Working with his assistant, Thomas Sutton, three photographs of a tartan ribbon were taken using red, green and blue filters. By using magic lanterns the aligned images on a screen More...
Hugo Brehme (1882, 3 December - 1954, 13 June) died. German photographer who spent a lot of time in Mexico. He was a noted expedition photographer and photojournalist. He photographed the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) and made the most famous photograph of the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. More...
René Patrice Proudhon Dagron (1818, 17 March - 1900, 13 June) died. French chemist, inventor of a plano-convex lens that would lead to the craze for a novelty optical toy, the Stanhope or Peep which he patented in 1860, and inventor of micropublishing. He was also the father of microfilming for spies and during More...
Claude-Marie Ferrier (1811 - 1889, 13 June) died. Early French photographer who recorded the items shown at the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition.
Count Giuseppe Primoli (1851, 2 May - 1927, 13 June) died. Italian candid photographer with the aristocratic connections necessary to photograph famous people and all classes of society. His photographic archives are held by the Fondazione Primoli on Via Zanardelli in Rome. |
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