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21 June 1838 | | The Professor of Experimental Philosophy at King's College (London) Sir Charles Wheatsone gives an address on Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the First. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision to the Royal Society of Arts in London. He proposes a device called a stereoscope that could be used to provide the illusion of depth and solidity. | Judy Dater (1941, 21 June - ) was born - US, CA, Hollywood. American photographer. Hanns Hubmann (1910, 21 June - ) was born - Germany, Freden/Leine. German photographer. Susan Meiselas (1948, 21 June - ) was born - US, MD, Baltimore. American photojournalist who started out with a study of Carnival Strippers. Her photographs of the dirty war in Nicaragua were a head-on horror story of a region out of control. Thomas Archdale Pope (1858, 21 June - ?) was born. Alice Boughton (1866, 14 May (?) - 1943, 21 June) died - US, NY, Long Island, Brookhaven. Hugh Welch Diamond (1809 (1808, 23 October - Grove Art Online) - 1886, 21 June) died. English photographer. Robert Gardner (1925, 5 November - 2014, 21 June) died. American anthropologist, filmmaker and photographer. Eduard Vuillard (1868, 11 November - 1940, 21 June) died. French painter, printmaker and photographer. | January February March April May June July August September October November December
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