Herbert Bayer (1900, 5 April - 1985, 30 September) was born - Austria, Haag. Herbert Bayer combined considerable talent in both graphic design and photography and this was reflected early in his career as a teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany (1925-28). During the 1930s he was influential in advertising and commercial design More...
Marc-Antoine Gaudin (1804, 5 April - 1880, 2 April) was born - France, Saintes. An early French daguerreotypist and scientist. He was the brother of Alexis Gaudin (1816-1894) and Charles Gaudin (1825-1905) who were notable stereotype photographers based in Paris.
Milton Miller (1830, 5 April - 1899, 14 January) was born - US, VT, Dummerston. American photographer active in Hong Kong and Canton in the early 1860s.
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005, p. 415) has an entry for Milton H. Miller but according to GEH and other sources his middle initial was M.
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Charles Smeaton (1838, 5 April - 1868, 26 February) was born - Scotland, Perth, Redgorton. In January 1867 he took photographs for John Henry Parker in the Roman catacombs using magnesium wire.
Gilles Caron (1939, 8 July - 1970, 5 April) died - Cambodia / Vietnam (Uncertain). French photojournalist who photographed the war in Biafra, Troubles of Northern Ireland, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Vietnam and Cambodia where he dissappeared.
Allen Ginsberg (1926, 3 June - 1997, 5 April) died - US, NY, New York. American poet and photographer of the beat generation.
Martin Kríž (1841, 14 November - 1916, 5 April) died - Czech Republic [now], Ždánice. Lawyer, archaeologist, palaeontologist and speleologist. From 1878 he made many explorations of the Moravian karst caves. From 1881 he used electrical lighting to photograph some of the caves.
Val Telberg (1910, 14 February - 1995, 5 April) died. Noted for photomontage and photocollage. His surrealist dream-inspired work was used to illustrate an edition of Anais Nin, House of Incest (Swallow Press, 1957) |
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