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Maxime Du Camp (1822, 8 February - 1894, 9 February) was born - France, Paris. 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... Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857, 8 February - 1936, 26 June) was born - The Netherlands, Oosterhout. Dutch scholar of the Orient and a prolific writer on Aceh and Islam. He visited Arabia and the holy city of Mecca in 1884-1885 and published the classic work "Mekka" (2 volumes, 1888-1889). Two albums of his photographs exist the first of which is More... Julius Neubronner (1852, 8 February - 1932, 17 April) was born - Duchy of Nassau, Kronberg im Taunus. Pharmacist, inventor and amateur photographer. He used homing pigeons to obtain urgent chemicals from his pharmaceutical wholesaler. As cameras became lighter he xperimented with attaching small cameras to homing pigeons and in 1908 patented his More... John Ruskin (1819, 8 February - 1900, 20 January) was born - Great Britain, London. British art critic, writer, social reformer, artist and occasional amateur photographer. Sebastião Salgado (1944, 8 February - ) was born - Brazil, Minas Gerais, Aimorés. Brazilian photojournalist who has worked for several of the leading photo agencies (Sygma, Gamma, Magnum) at different times. His long term studies of workers, migrations, famine all detail the plight of the human condition. Jerry Yulsman (1924, 8 February - 1999, 6 August) was born - US, PA, Philadelphia. American novelist and photographer. Aaron Siskind (1903, 4 December - 1991, 8 February) died. American documentary photographer with a tendency to produce abstract images. |
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Robb Kendrick
| | Contemporary American photographer who has documented cowboys, mummies and other subjects using tintypes.
A collection of his tintypes is held at the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography(Albert B. Alkek Library on ... More... |  | | More books... | If you have any anecdotes or further information on Robb Kendrick please send me an email at alan@luminous-lint.com
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