Pierre Brochet (1922, 10 December - ) was born - France, Auxerre. French contemporary photogravurist, photographer and expert in historical photographic processes.
Erwin Fieger (1928, 10 December - ) was born - Czechoslovakia, Toplei. A naturalized German photographer.
Ruth Gilbert (1909, 10 December - 2007, 7 April) was born - US, PA, Philadelphia. Took up the camera when she was 62 with her work being recognised by being published in the influential magazine Zoom. In her series "Sight Unseen" she photographed the butchers of the Rue de Seine in Paris.
Benjamin West Kilburn (1827, 10 December - 1909) was born - US, NH, Littleton. Noted photographer and publisher of American stereoviews.
Pierre Lou˙s (1870, 10 December - 1925, 6 June) was born - Belgium, Ghent. French writer and taker of erotic photography.
Alexander Gardner (1821, 17 October - 1882, 10 December) died - US, Washington. American photographer who photographed the American Civil War - initially with Mathew Brady. In 1867 he became the Official Photographer of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, which later became the Kansas Pacific.
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Alfred Nobel (1833, 21 October - 1897, 10 December) died. Experimented with taking aerial photographs using a rocket and filed a patent in 1896 for "An improved mode of obtaining photographic maps". He died in December 1896 and it was on 26 April 1897 that engineers at his research laboratory at Karlskoga More... |
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