René Burri (1933, 9 April - 2014, 20 October) was born - Switzerland, Zurich. Swiss photographer and film maker. He became a staff member of Magnum in 1959 though he had carried out assignments for them since 1955.
His archive of around 30,000 pictures is held by the Musée de l’Élysee, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Art Kane (1925, 9 April - 1995, 21 February) was born - US, NY, New York. American photographer who is well known because of the Harlem group portrait of all the exponents of Jazz.
Robb Kendrick (1963, 9 April - ) was born - US, TX, Spur. Contemporary American photographer who has documented cowboys, mummies and other subjects using tintypes.
A collection of his tintypes is held at the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography(Albert B. Alkek Library More...
Frederick Kilgour (1841, 9 April - 1919, 26 March) was born.
Hansel Mieth (1909, 9 April - 1998) was born - Germany, Oppelsbohm. Photojournalist - particularly her photo-essays for LIFE magazine in the 1930s and 40s.
Eadweard Muybridge (1830, 9 April - 1904, 8 May) was born - Great Britain, England, Kingston-on-Thames. Worked in America for 40 years, photographing the Pacific Railway, Yosemite, Panama & Guatemala (1875) as well as a terrific series of panoramas of San Francisco. Series of photographs of galloping horse to show that, at any one time, all four legs More...
Karl Pietzner (1853, 9 April - 1927, 24 November) was born - Prussia, Wriezen an der Oder.
Jennifer Shaw (1972, 9 April - ) was born - US, IN, Lafayette. Contemporary American photographer who has documented the industrial sites of New Orleans. When Hurricane Katrina struck the city she had flee the city to avoid the destruction and flooding. The tale of that period and her pregnancy wa the basis More...
Lillian A. Sigford (1915, 9 April - 1986, August) was born.
Sander Steins (1973, 9 April - ) was born - The Netherlands, Nijmegen. Dutch photographer is a self taught photographer, visual artist and editor who started full time with photography in 2005 who works using a number of different names depending upon the nature of the work. Using his real name Sander Steins he More...
Mark Strizic (1928, 9 April - 2012, 8 December) was born - Germany, Berlin. German-born photographer who emigrated to Australia in 1950.
Marcus Adams (1875, 15 May - 1959, 9 April) died. Joining his father‘s photographic business in Reading, Adams soon established a name for himself in travel photography although is now best known for his sympathetic studies of children, including the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.
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Weston Barwise (1826, 16 May - 1863, 9 April) died.
Frederick C. Coombs (1803 - 1874, 9 April) died - US, NY, New York.
Louis Fleckenstein (1866, 2 January - 1943, 9 April) died - US, CA, Long Beach. American pictorialist
Burt Glinn (1925 - 2008, 9 April) died. Freelance travel photography. Represented by Magnum and president between 1972 and 1975 and again in 1987. |
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