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| 18 June 1847 |  | Thomas Easterly makes what may be the first ever photograph of a streak of lightning on a daguerreotype plate. |
Fred Boissonnas (1858, 18 June - 1946, 17 October) was born - Switzerland, Geneva.
Anton Stankowski (1906, 18 June - 1998, 11 December) was born - Germany, Gelsenkirchen. German photographer, graphic designer, and painter.
Vaclav Zykmund (1914, 18 June - 1984, 10 May) was born. Czech avant-garde photographer, painter, art critic. Founder of the Surrealist group Ra in Brno.
Samuel Butler (1835, 4 December - 1902, 18 June) died - England, London. British author, painter and photographer. Although best known for his writings such as Erewhon (1870) and The Way of All Flesh (1903) he was also a photographer of considerable talent.
Horacio Coppola (1906, 31 July - 2012, 18 June) died. Studied at the Bauhaus in Germany and in 1933 met Grete Stern whom he married in 1935 to whom he was married until their divorce in 1943. From the 1930s onwards he recorded the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina as it changed through the twentieth More...
Joe Deal (1947 - 2010, 18 June) died - US, RI, Providence. Black and white photographs of the Getty Center.
Gabriel de Rumine (1841, 16 January - 1871, 18 June) died - Romania, Bucharest. A Russian noble born in Switzerland who accompanied Grand Duke Constantine, son of Nicholas I, on a journey that lasted from October 1858 to July 1859. They travelled to from Nice, to Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Malta, Athens, Constantinople, and More... |
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