Eddie Adams (1933, 12 June - 2004, 19 September) was born - US, PA, New Kensington. American Pulitzer-Winning photojournalist. He is particularly remembered for his 1968 photograph of the Vietnamese General [Nguyen Ngoc] Loan shooting a prisoner in a Saigon Street at the height of the Vietnam War. Troubled by the event which he More...
H.C. Anderson (1911, 12 June - 1998) was born - US, MS, Nitta Yuma. Founded the Anderson Photo Service in 1947 and recorded the everyday life of the once properous African American community in the small town of Greenville, Mississippi, and the surrounding region through the upheavals of the Civil Rights years.
Werner Braun (1918, 12 June - ) was born - Germany, Nuremberg. German-born photographer who emigrated to Israel in 1946.
Georges Demeny (1850, 12 June - 1917, 26 December) was born - France, Douai. A proponent of physical exercise and an assistant of Etienne-Jules Marey for the chronophotography techniques study movement. In 1892 he patented his Photophone for taking moving images and his Phonoscope for projecting them and was therefore a More...
Mark Edwards (1947, 12 June - ) was born - UK, London.
Weegee (1899, 12 June - 1968, 26 December) was born - Austria [now Poland], Zloczew - (Different sources give different locations such as Lemburg in the Ukraine). American freelance photographer with an incredible ability to take photographs at crime scenes in New York.
Gustav Fritsch (1838, 5 March - 1927, 12 June) died. German anthropologist who took portraits of Xhosa leaders in South Africa (1863-1866). In 1868 he took part in an expedition to Aden to observe the solar eclipse of 18 August. In 1874 he went to Isfahan to observe the Transit of Venus.
John Gutmann (1905, 28 May - 1998, 12 June) died - US, CA, San Francisco. Painter and photographer.
William B. Post (1857, 26 December - 1921, 12 June) died - US, ME, Fryeburg. American photographer and member of the Photo-Secession in the United States. |
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