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| 7 June 2007 |  | Martin Parr curates the exhibition "Colour before Color" at the Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York. By selecting six European photographers he shows that colour photography was being used effectively prior to the ground breaking 1976 exhibition of the color photography by William Eggleston at MoMA curated by John Szarkowski. Martin Parr selects work by:
Luigi Ghirri (Italian, 1943–1992)
Keld Helmer-Petersen (Danish, 1920-2013)
John Hinde (British, studio with Edmund Nägele, Elmar Ludwig, David Noble)
Peter Mitchell (British)
Carlos Pérez Siquier (Spanish, b. 1930)
Ed van der Elsken (Dutch, 1925-1990) |
Dawid (1949, 7 June - ) was born. Swedish artist and photographer.
Pierre Ichac (1901, 7 June - 1978, 20 August) was born - France, Paris. French photojournalist.
Tony Ray-Jones (1941, 7 June - 1972, 13 March) was born - UK, Somerset, nr. Wells, Wookey. Ray-Jones had a brief, but memorable, career in photography, working as a freelance photographer in New York, San Francisco and London before dying of leukemia at the age of 31.
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Bradford Washburn (1910, 7 June - 2007, 10 January) was born - US, MA, Cambridge. Had a long relationship with National Geographic and accompanied many expeditions. Respected for his mountaineering photography and his aerial photography of remote areas.
In 1980 the Alexander Graham Bell Medal of the National More...
David Douglas Duncan (1916, 23 January - 2018, 7 June) died - France, Grasse. American photojournalist, particularly noted for his book ‘This is War‘ that dealt with the Korean War and for his work with Pablo Picasso. A vast archive of his photographs and documents are housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities More...
Roger Mayne (1929 - 2014, 7 June) died. English documentary photographer who recorded the grim towns of England in the 1950s and 60s. He had a solo exhibition at The Victoria and Albert Museum in 1986.
Augustus Washington (1821/22 - 1875, 7 June) died - Liberia, Monrovia. One of the few identified African American daguerreotypists. He studied at the Oneida Institute and Kimball Union Academy before entering Dartmouth College in 1843 where he learnt how to take daguerreotypes. In Hartford, Connecticut he opened one More... |
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