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| 6 June 1881 |  | In a rather macabre experiment the US Army blows the head off a mule to test if a 10 by 12 gelatino-bromide instantaneous Eastman dry plate can capture the explosion. It does and the official report appears in Annual Report of the Secretary of War for the Year 1882 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882), vol. II, part 1, p. 448. | | 6 June 1944 |  | During the Allied invasion of Normandy (D-Day) Robert Capa photographs the landings at Omaha Beach. He exposes 106 frames of the heavily laden troops at they struggle past the steel landing craft obstructions before wading to an LCI (landing craft, infantry) to return to England with the first photographs of the invasion. All but eleven blurry images remain after the films are overheated when drying. |
Mieczyslaw Berman (1903, 7 July - 1975, 6 May) died - Poland, Warsaw. Polish photographer and a master of political photomontage.
William Henry Stanley Crawford (1823, 10 August - 1883, 6 June) died - India, Tellicherry.
Pierre Lou˙s (1870, 10 December - 1925, 6 June) died. French writer and taker of erotic photography.
Louis Lumičre (1864, 5 October - 1948, 6 June) died - France, Bandol. One of the key people in the development of motion pictures but he was also important in still photography and in 1907 he marketed Autochrome which was the first commercially available color process.
Arnold Newman (1918, 3 March - 2006, 6 June) died - US, NY, New York. Portrait photographer who specialized in using a minimal number of items in the shot but the selected objects really inform us about the subject. His photographs of Igor Stravinsky sitting at a grand piano and Alfred Krupp in his factory are More...
Mathilde Weil (1871, 19 February - 1942, 6 June) died - US, PA, Philadelphia. American photographer. |
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