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| 8 December 2005 | | Luminous-Lint website is announced by Alan Griffiths on the Yahoo PhotoHistory list (message #6471). Carl Mautz had posted the first notice about the existence of Luminous-Lint on Dec 6th on the same list (message #6457). |
Louis Ducos du Hauron (1837, 8 December - 1920, 31 August) was born - France, Langon. French inventor and promoter of early colour photographic processes.
Albert J. Leigh (1895, 8 December - 1982, 4 January) was born - US, NY, Brooklyn.
Georges Mèliès (1861, 8 December - 1938, 21 January) was born - France, Paris. Experimental French filmmaker. His 1902 film ”Le Voyage dans la Lune” (A Trip the Moon) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of silent film. IThe film "Hugo" (2011) is a fictionalized account of parts of his life.
Arnulf Rainer (1929, 8 December - ) was born - Austria, Baden (nr. Vienna). Austrian, painter, printmaker and photographer.
E.A. Scholfield (1843, 8 December - 1930, 20 October) was born - US, MA, Lowell.
Claude Cahun (1894, 25 October - 1954, 8 December) died - UK, Channel Islands, Jersey, St Hélier. French woman sculptor, writer and photographer. She changed her name from Lucy Schwob in around 1917 and took a male name that confused photo-historians over her gender for many years. Her lesbian relationship with her lifelong companion Marcel More...
Charles T. Collier (1853, 13 Sept - 1934, 8 December) died - US, CA, National City. Charles Turner Collier was born in Cohasset, Massachusetts in 1853. By 1876 he was working as a photographer in Massachusetts. In a strange coincidence, C.T. Collier arrived in Riverside in 1884, the day before a fire destroyed the studio that had More...
Bart Parker (1934 - 2013, 8 December) died - US, AL, Northport.
Mark Strizic (1928, 9 April - 2012, 8 December) died - Australia, Victoria, Wallan. German-born photographer who emigrated to Australia in 1950. |
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