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Calendars - April

Events 
  
7 April 1857ThumbnailAlexander Beckers of New York City patents a stereo-viewer with a revolving mechanism which allows multiple views of different types to be inspected sequentially by turning a knob. 
12 April 1861ThumbnailFort Sumter in Charleston is fired on by Confederate guns commencing the hostilities of the American Civil War (1861-1865). The fort surrenders after 33 hours of shelling and miraculously nobody on either side was killed or seriously injured. 
13 April 1897ThumbnailThe Photo-Club of Paris ('le Photo Club de Paris') holds its fourth exhibition Quatričme Année Salon de Photographie
14 April 1865ThumbnailPresident Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in the Ford Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. 
14 April 1874ThumbnailCassius M. Coolidge, noted for paints of dogs playing poker, issued a patent for "Processes of Taking Photographic Pictures" (US Patent No: 149,724). The patents is for the use of comic foregrounds which are the forerunner of the comic boards with holes that people can place their heads through for a candid shot becoming part of life-size caricature. 
15 April 1874ThumbnailNadar holds the first exhibition of Impressionist paintings (15 April-15 May 1874) at his photographic studio at 35 boulevard des Capucines, Paris. The Salon had refused their paintings in 1873 and the painters, who collectively called themselves the Societé anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, mounted the show as a protest. The name Impressionism was taken from one of Monet's paintings Impression: Sunrise and originated in a derogatory comment from a journalist.
 
  
Births 
  
Micky Allan (1944, 1 April - ) 
Lázaro Blanco (1938, 1 April - ) 
Etienne Carjat (1828, 1 April - 1906) 
Max Ernst (1891, 2 April - 1976, 2 April) 
Nigel Henderson (1917, 1 April - 1985, 15 May) 
Daniel Masclet (1892, 1 April - 1969, 16 September) 
József Pécsi (1889, 1 April - 1956, 7 October) 
Martine Franck (1938, 2 April - 2012, 16 August) 
Stella Snead (1910, 2 April - 2006, 18 March) 
Émile Zola (1840, 2 April - 1902, 29 September) 
James Wheeler Woodford Birch (1826, 3 April - 1875, 2 November) 
Josef Breitenbach (1896, 3 April - 1984, 7 October) 
Frank Gohlke (1942, 3 April - ) 
Bastienne Schmidt (1961, 3 April - ) 
Francesca Woodman (1958, 3 April - 1981, 19 January) 
Ian Berry (1934, 4 April - ) 
Donald Blumberg (1935, 4 April - ) 
Max Dupain (1911, 4 April - 1992, 27 July) 
William Henry Jackson (1843, 4 April - 1942, 30 June) 
Herbert Bayer (1900, 5 April - 1985, 30 September) 
Marc-Antoine Gaudin (1804, 5 April - 1880, 2 April) 
Milton Miller (1830, 5 April - 1899, 14 January) 
Charles Smeaton (1838, 5 April - 1868, 26 February) 
Giacomo Brogi (1822, 6 April - 1881, 29 November) 
Harold E. Edgerton (1903, 6 April - 1990, 4 January) 
David Moore (1927, 6 April - 2003) 
Nadar (1820, 6 April - 1910, 21 March) 
Edward W. Trevelyan (1881, 6 April - 1947, 10 April) 
Rommert Boonstra (1942, 7 April - ) 
Neil Folberg (1950, 7 April - ) 
Arthur Allen Lewis (1873, 7 April - 1957, 20 March) 
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry James Barr (1815, 8 April - 1881, 17 May) 
Jules Itier (1802, 8 April - 1877, 13 October) 
Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885, 8 April - 1971, 17 April) 
Ida Kar (1908, 8 April - 1974, 24 December) 
Clarence H. White (1871, 8 April - 1925, 8 July) 
René Burri (1933, 9 April - 2014, 20 October) 
Art Kane (1925, 9 April - 1995, 21 February) 
Robb Kendrick (1963, 9 April - ) 
Frederick Kilgour (1841, 9 April - 1919, 26 March) 
Hansel Mieth (1909, 9 April - 1998) 
Eadweard Muybridge (1830, 9 April - 1904, 8 May) 
Karl Pietzner (1853, 9 April - 1927, 24 November) 
Jennifer Shaw (1972, 9 April - ) 
Sander Steins (1973, 9 April - ) 
Mark Strizic (1928, 9 April - 2012, 8 December) 
Cornell Capa (1918, 10 April - 2008, 23 May) 
Risto Lounema (1939, 10 April - ) 
Edward David Ritton (1823, 10 April - 1892, 9 December) 
Marc Yankus (1957, 10 April - ) 
Joel Grey (1932, 11 April - ) 
Spring Hurlbut (1952, 11 April - ) 
Macedonio Melloni (1801, 11 April - 1854, 11 August) 
Andrew Charles Brisbane Neill (1814, 11 April - 1891, 19 July) 
Imogen Cunningham (1883, 12 April - 1976, 24 June) 
Earl L. Mohr (1919, 12 April - 1974, 27 January) 
Christian Vogt (1946, 12 April - ) 
Allen A. Dutton (1922, 13 April - 2017) 
Brian Griffin (1948, 13 April - ) 
Alexander Edwin Caddy (1846, 14 April - 1904, 29 February) 
Henry Dixon (1820, 14 April - 1893, 20 January) 
Robert Doisneau (1912, 14 April - 1994, 1 April) 
E.O. Hoppé (1878, 14 April - 1972, 9 December) 
Anna Bohdziewicz (1950, 15 April - ) 
David Hamilton (1933, 15 April - 2016, 25 November) 
George Platt Lynes (1907, 15 April - 1955, 6 December) 
Henk Thijs (1945, 15 April - ) 
Adam Clark Vroman (1856, 15 April - 1916, 24 July) 
Thurston Hopkins (1913, 16 April - 2014, 26 October) 
Jerome Liebling (1924, 16 April - 2011, 27 July) 
Paul Martin (1864, 16 April - 1944, 7 July) 
Kees Scherer (1920, 16 April - 1993, 19 January) 
Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (1951, 16 April - ) 
Giovanni di Mola (1968, 17 April - ) 
Eliot Elisofon (1911, 17 April - 1973, 7 April) 
Sherrie Levine (1947, 17 April - ) 
Michal Macku (1963, 17 April - ) 
Wynn Bullock (1902, 18 April - 1975, 16 November) 
Charles Chevalier (1804, 18 April - 1859, 21 November) 
Sara Facio (1932, 18 April - ) 
Frederick Kruger (1831, 18 April - 1888, 15 February) 
James Leon Williams (1852, 18 April - 1932, 23 February) 
Harold Burdekin (1899, 19 April - 1944, 22 July) 
William Klein (1928, 19 April - ) 
Aimé Laussedat (1819, 19 April - 1907, 18 March) 
Humphrey Spender (1910, 19 April - 2005, 11 March) 
Frank Ward (1949, 19 April - ) 
Mario Cravo Neto (1947, 20 April - 2009) 
Patrick Dolique (1949, 20 April - ) 
Captain Allan Newton Scott (1824, 20 April - 1870, 5 January) 
Eve Arnold (1912, 21 April - 2012, 4 January) 
James Higginson (1957, 21 April - ) 
Frances Cooke Macgregor (1906, 21 April - 2001, 24 December) 
Watanabe Yoshio (1907, 21 April - 2000) 
Alphonse Bertillon (1853, 22 April - 1914, 13 February) 
R.B. Bontecou (1824, 22 April - 1907) 
Laura Gilpin (1891, 22 April - 1979, 30 November) 
Colonel William Henry Mason (1830, 23 April - 1910, 1 July) 
Lee Miller (1907, 23 April - 1977, 21 July) 
Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski (1949, 23 April - ) 
Dallett Fuguet (1868, 24 April - 1933, 27 December) 
Jan Groover (1943, 24 April - 2012, 1 January) 
Laszlo Layton (1959, 24 April - ) 
Suda Issei (1940, 24 April - ) 
Charles Sheridan Blackwood Walton (1829, 24 April - 1889, 15 July) 
Cy Twombly (1928, 25 April - ) 
Robert Adamson (1821, 26 April - 1848, 18 January) 
Werner Bischof (1916, 26 April - 1954, 16 May) 
Zbigniew Dlubak (1924, 26 April - ) 
Karol Kállay (1926, 26 April - ) 
Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815, 27 April - 1897, 21 May) 
Bruno Chalifour (1956, 27 April - ) 
Peter Keetman (1916, 27 April - 2005, 3 August) 
Julius Adolph Paul Kuntze (1848, 27 April - 1905, 25 October) 
Samuel F.B. Morse (1791, 27 April - 1872, 2 April) 
Jack Welpott (1923, 27 April - 2007, 24 November) 
Horst Faas (1933, 28 April - 2012, 10 May) 
Frank Horvat (1928, 28 April - 2020) 
Werner Mantz (1901, 28 April - 1983) 
Erich Salomon (1886, 28 April - 1944, 7 July) 
Eva Besnyö (1910, 29 April - 2002, 12 December) 
Mariën Marcel (1920, 29 April - 1993, 19 September) 
William Bradford (1823, 30 April - 1892, 25 April) 
Georg Gerster (1928, 30 April - ) 
Albrecht Meydenbauer (1834, 30 April - 1921, 15 November) 
 
  
Deaths 
  
Emmanuel Forchhammer (1851, 12 March - 1890, 26 April) 
Kaveh Golestan (1950 - 2003, 2 April) 
Robert Doisneau (1912, 14 April - 1994, 1 April) 
Max Ernst (1891, 2 April - 1976, 2 April) 
George Moncrieff Govan (1829, 3 March - 1898, 1 April) 
Lars Tunbjörk (1956, 15 February - 2015, 1 April) 
Marc-Antoine Gaudin (1804, 5 April - 1880, 2 April) 
Samuel F.B. Morse (1791, 27 April - 1872, 2 April) 
Hans Finsler (1891, 7 December - 1972, 3 April) 
Cora Huidekoper Clarke (1851, 9 February - 1916, 2 April) 
Alexander Henderson (1831 - 1913, 4 April) 
Herbert List (1903, 7 October - 1975, 4 April) 
Gilles Caron (1939, 8 July - 1970, 5 April) 
Allen Ginsberg (1926, 3 June - 1997, 5 April) 
Martin Kr힠(1841, 14 November - 1916, 5 April) 
Val Telberg (1910, 14 February - 1995, 5 April) 
W.H. Allerton (1858, 17 October - 1925, 6 April) 
Louis Boutan (1859 - 1934, 6 April) 
Edward Quigley (1898, 3 January - 1977, 6 April) 
George Dureau (1930, 28 December - 2014, 7 April) 
Eliot Elisofon (1911, 17 April - 1973, 7 April) 
Ruth Gilbert (1909, 10 December - 2007, 7 April) 
Edwin Max Konstam (1870, 10 June - 1956, 7 April) 
Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell (1879, 13 September - 1974, 8 April) 
Sol LeWitt (1928, 9 September - 2007, 8 April) 
Pablo Picasso (1881, 25 October - 1973, 8 April) 
Marcus Adams (1875, 15 May - 1959, 9 April) 
Weston Barwise (1826, 16 May - 1863, 9 April) 
Frederick C. Coombs (1803 - 1874, 9 April) 
Louis Fleckenstein (1866, 2 January - 1943, 9 April) 
Burt Glinn (1925 - 2008, 9 April) 
Adrian J. Ebell (1840, 20 September - 1877, 10 April) 
Walker Evans (1903, 3 November - 1975, 10 April) 
Auguste Lumičre (1862, 19 October - 1954, 10 April) 
Edward W. Trevelyan (1881, 6 April - 1947, 10 April) 
Ralph Winwood Robinson (1861, 11 September - 1942, 11 April) 
Charles H. Bell (1907, 24 September - 2003, 12 April) 
Miroslav Tichý (1926, 20 November - 2011, 12 April) 
Charles Ludolph Griesbach (1847, 11 December - 1907, 13 April) 
Henry Curry James (1817 - 1866, 13 April) 
Lyddell Sawyer (1856 - 1927, 13 April) 
Oskar Schlemmer (1888, 4 September - 1943, 13 April) 
L. White (1776, 7 July - 1850, 13 April) 
John Thomas Gulick (1832, 13 March - 1923, 14 April) 
Malick Sidibé (1936 - 2016, 14 April) 
Alexey Brodovitch (1898 - 1971, 15 April) 
John Pfahl (1939, 17 February - 2010, 15 April) 
Alfred Watkins (1855, 27 January - 1935, 15 April) 
T. Enami (1859, 17 February - 1929, 16 April) 
Edward W. Keck (1870, 9 December - 1912, 16 April) 
Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885, 8 April - 1971, 17 April) 
Julius Neubronner (1852, 8 February - 1932, 17 April) 
Yosuke Yamahata (1917, 6 August - 1966, 18 April) 
Warren De la Rue (1815, 18 January - 1889, 19 April) 
Victor Viktorovich Golubev (1878, 11 February - 1945, 19 April) 
Forman G. Hanna (1881, 21 December - 1950, 20 April) 
Tim Hetherington (1970, 5 December - 2011, 20 April) 
Chris Hondros (1970, 14 March - 2011, 20 April) 
August Sander (1876, 17 November - 1964, 20 April) 
Cole Weston (1919 - 2003, 20 April) 
Jeremiah Gurney (1812 - 1895, 21 April) 
F. Benedict Herzog (1860 - 1912, 21 April) 
Vivian Maier (1926, 1 February - 2009, 21 April) 
Harry K. Shigeta (1887, 5 July - 1963, 21 April) 
Ansel Adams (1902, 20 February - 1984, 22 April) 
Pirie MacDonald (1867, 27 January - 1942, 22 April) 
William P. Gottlieb (1917, 28 January - 2006, 23 April) 
Arthur T. Henrici (1889, 31 March - 1943, 23 April) 
Willoughby Wallace Hooper (1837, 4 February - 1912, 23 April) 
Roland Penrose (1900, 14 October - 1984, 23 April) 
Axel Bahnsen (1907, 21 May - 1978, 24 April) 
Rudolf Eickemeyer (1862, 7 August - 1932, 24 April) 
Abbas (1944 - 2018, 25 April) 
William Bradford (1823, 30 April - 1892, 25 April) 
Jacob Olie (1834 - 1905, 25 April) 
Paul Senn (1901, 14 August - 1953, 25 April) 
Henri Troth (1860 - 1945, 25 April) 
John Heartfield (1891, 19 June - 1968, 26 April) 
C.J. Marvin (1888, 22 June - 1944, 26 April) 
Frederick R. Archer (1889, 3 December - 1963, 27 April) 
Frederick Gutekunst (1831, 25 September - 1917, 27 April) 
J.A. Williams (1817, 19 September - 1892, 27 April) 
Vito Acconci (1940, 24 January - 2017, 28 April) 
Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (1802, 2 August - 1872, 28 April) 
Emil Bieber (1878, 8 January - 1962, 29 April) 
Charles Gatewood (1942, 8 November - 2016, 29 April) 
Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815, 12 May - 1894, 29 April) 
Charles Horetzky (1838, 20 July - 1900, 30 April) 
Thomas Limborg (1894, 27 May - 1992, 30 April) 
Mathew J. Steffens (1852, 10 June - 1928, 30 April) 
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