Arthur Batut (1846, 9 February - 1918, 19 January) was born - France, Castres. French photographer and a pioneer of aerial photography using kites. He experimented with kites at his farm En Laure at Labruguière (Tarn, France) and in August 1888 his results were published in "Nature".
Cora Huidekoper Clarke (1851, 9 February - 1916, 2 April) was born. Botanist and entomologist who belonged to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Cambridge Entomological Club, the Boston Society of Natural History, and the Botany Group of the New England Women's Club. Noted for her More...
Gerhard Richter (1932, 9 February - ) was born - German, axony, Dresden. German visual artist who used black-and-white photographs as the starting point for his paintings.
John Benjamin Stone (1838, 9 February - 1914, 2 July) was born - Great Britain, Birmingham, Aston. He worked in a variety of professions including politics, social work, geology, astronomy and as an entrepreneur. His photographs covered the spectrum of social classes and a selection was published in 1906 in ‘Sir Benjamin Stone‘s More...
F.E. Williams (1893, 9 February - 1943, 12 May) was born - Australia, Adelaide, Malvern. Australian-born ethnographer who trained at the University of Adelaide (B.A. 1914) and Balliol College,Oxford, (1921) and spent his entire working career as Government Anthropologist in the Australian Territory of Papua.
Maxime Du Camp (1822, 8 February - 1894, 9 February) died - Germany, Baden-Baden. French photographer and writer. He traveled to Egypt with Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary, and brought back over 220 negatives.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired an excellent collection of his More...
Levi L. Hill (1816, 26 February - 1865, 9 February) died. He worked in West Kill, New York, in the late 1840s and 1850s and claimed to have created very early experimental colour photographs that became known as "hillotypes". As the chemical formulae and exact processes used were never clearly explained More... |
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