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Biography: 19th Century Danish photographer Mary Steen

Biography: 19th Century Danish photographer Mary Steen

7 July 2019 0
Mary Dorothea Frederica Steen (1856 – 1939) was a Danish photographer and feminist. At the…
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Biography: human rights photographer Alice Seeley Harris

Biography: human rights photographer Alice Seeley Harris

1 May 2019 0
Alice Seeley Harris (1870–1970) was an English missionary and an early documentary photographer. Her photography…
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Biography: 19th Century photographer Henry Peach Robinson

Biography: 19th Century photographer Henry Peach Robinson

7 February 2019 0
Henry Peach Robinson (1830 – 1901) was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his…
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Biography: 19th Century photographer Heinrich Kühn

Biography: 19th Century photographer Heinrich Kühn

14 November 2018 0
Heinrich Kühn (1866 – 1944) was an Austrian–German photographer and photography pioneer. Kühn is regarded…
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Biography: 19th Century East Asia photographer Felice Beato

Biography: 19th Century East Asia photographer Felice Beato

14 June 2018 0
Felice Beato (1832 – 1909) was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first…
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Biography: 19th Century Royal photographer William Bambridge

Biography: 19th Century Royal photographer William Bambridge

7 May 2018 0
William Bambridge (1820 – 1879) was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England. In 1848 Bambridge joined…
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Biography: 19th Century photographer Giuseppe Primoli

Biography: 19th Century photographer Giuseppe Primoli

22 January 2018 0
Giuseppe Primoli (1851 – 1927) was an Italian photographer. He lived in Paris from 1853…
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Biography: Pictorial/Nudes photographer Arthur F. Kales

Biography: Pictorial/Nudes photographer Arthur F. Kales

15 December 2017 0
Arthur F. Kales (1882 – 1936) received a law degree from the University of California…
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Biography: 19th Century Dutch-Flemish photographer Isidore van Kinsbergen

Biography: 19th Century Dutch-Flemish photographer Isidore van Kinsbergen

4 December 2017 0
Isidore van Kinsbergen (1821 – 1905) was a Dutch-Flemish engraver who took the first archaeological…
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Biography: 19th Century Daguerreotype Studio – Southworth & Hawes

Biography: 19th Century Daguerreotype Studio – Southworth & Hawes

16 November 2017 0
Albert Sands Southworth (1811-1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901) operated a daguerreotype studio together in…
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Biography: 19th Century British India photographer Fred Bremner

Biography: 19th Century British India photographer Fred Bremner

20 October 2017 0
Fred Bremner (1863-1941) was a Scottish photographer. His portraiture work in British India, spanning 1882…
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Biography: Broadway photographer Joseph Byron

Biography: Broadway photographer Joseph Byron

28 September 2017 0
Joseph Byron (January 1847 – May 28, 1923) was an English photographer who founded the…
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Biography: 19th Century Javanese photographer Kassian Cephas

Biography: 19th Century Javanese photographer Kassian Cephas

20 July 2017 0
Kassian Cephas (1845 – 1912) was a Javanese photographer of the court of the Yogyakarta…
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Biography: American West photographer Edward S. Curtis

Biography: American West photographer Edward S. Curtis

4 April 2017 0
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 – 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused…
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Biography: pictorial photographer Emma Justine Farnsworth

Biography: pictorial photographer Emma Justine Farnsworth

21 January 2017 0
Emma J. Farnsworth (1860-1952) was an American photographer from Albany, New York. Farnsworth had training…
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Biography: pioneer paparazzo Ron Galella

Biography: pioneer paparazzo Ron Galella

13 December 2016 0
Ronald Galella (born January 10, 1931) is an American photographer, known as a pioneer paparazzo.…
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Biography: Documentary / People photographer John Albok

Biography: Documentary / People photographer John Albok

3 June 2016 0
John Albok (1894–1982) was a Hungarian photographer who immigrated to the United States and documented…
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Biography: Documentary photographer Walker Evans

Biography: Documentary photographer Walker Evans

17 June 2015 0
Walker Evans (1903 – 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for…
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Biography: People/Portrait photographer Pedro Luis Raota

Biography: People/Portrait photographer Pedro Luis Raota

9 May 2015 0
Pedro Luis Raota (1934-1986) was an Argentinian photographer. At a young age he sold his…
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Biography: People photographer Adam Clark Vroman

Biography: People photographer Adam Clark Vroman

21 February 2015 0
Adam Clark Vroman was born April 15, 1856, in La Salle, Illinois. Died July 24,…
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