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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Sir Francis Galton

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Dates:  1822, 16 February - 1911, 17 January
Born:  England, Birmingham, Sparkbrook
Died:  England, Surrey, Haslemere
Active:  Great Britain
Gender:  Male
 
  
British polymath who used photography to better understand scientific principles.

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General reading 
  
Ellenbogen, Josh, 2012, Reasoned and Unreasoned Images: The Photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey, (Penn State University Press) isbn-10: 0271052597 isbn-13: 978-0271052595 [Δ
  
Galton, Francis, 1879, ‘Composite Portraits‘, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol.8, pp.132-142 [Δ
  
Galton, Francis, 1882, ‘Photographic Chronicles from Childhood to Age‘, Fortnightly Review, vol.37 9 n.s. 31, pp.26-31 [Δ
  
Galton, Francis, 1889, ‘Personal Identification and Description‘, Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol.18, pp.177-191 [Δ
  
 
  
 
  
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Alphonse Bertillon
Anthropometry Card of Francis Galton, with Profile and Full-Face Photos and spaces for Key Body Measurements 
1893
 
  
Family history 
  
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Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Sir Francis Galton.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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