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| 12 October 1960 | | Inejiro Asanuma (Chairman of Japan's Socialist Party) is assassinated in the Hibiya Hall in Tokyo by a right wing student. Yasushi Nagao, working for the Tokyo daily newspaper Mainichi photographs the stabbing. | | 12 October 2004 |  | A complete bound set of The North American Indian including all of the text volumes and all of the photogravure portfolios by Edward Curtis sells for $1,416,000 with the buyer's premium included. This is the most expensive single auction lot for a photographic work up to that date. |
Paolo Gioli (1942, 12 October - ) was born - Italy, Sarzano di Rovigo. Italian photographer and artist who uses Polaroids.
Constantine Manos (1934, 12 October - ) was born - US, SC, Columbia.
Toby Old (1945, 12 October - ) was born - US, MN, Stillwater. American contemporary photographer.
Carl August von Steinheil (1801, 12 October - 1870, 14 September) was born - German, Alsace, Ribeauvillé (now France). Made small negatives in 1839 and then made positives from them. These included early 4 x 4 cm photographs of Monaco taken in April 1839.
Alexander Leventon (1895, 11 November - 1950, 12 October) died - US, NY, Rochester.
Ernest Withers (1922, 7 August - 2007, 15 October) died - US, TN, Memphis. Photographer who recorded the everyday events of the American South as it went through the civil rights turmoils of the 1950s and 60s.
On September 12, 2010 the article "Photographer Ernest Withers doubled as FBI informant to spy More... |
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