Events
| December 1934 | | Exploring the primitive and the unconsciuous mind as expressed through graffiti Bill Brandt publishes a selection of photographs in the article "Du mur des cavernes au mur d'usine" in the Surrealist magazine Minotaure (no. 3-4). | | December 1937 | | The Rape of Nanjing is carried out with hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and troops massacred by the Japanese forces. In December 1937 Japanese bombers sink the gunboat U.S.S. Panay near Nanking as they bomb the city. | | 7 December 1941 |  | Pearl Harbor | | 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). | | 12 December 1893 | | Cornele B. Adams issued a patent for "Method of Photogrammetry" which used two aerial photographs of the same locality taken from a tethered balloon. | | 17 December 1903 |  | The Autochrome is patented by the Lumière Brothers and when marketed in 1907 it becomes the first widely used color process. | | 28 December 1895 |  | The Lumière Brothers , Auguste (1862-1954) and Louis (1864-1948), hold the first public demonstration of moving pictures at the Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris with their Cinematograph. | | 31 December 2000 | | The first message is posted to the Yahoo! Groups PhotoHistory list by Larz F. Kremer and is a request on the restoration of Daguerreotypes. |
Births
R.P. Napper (1818, 23 December - 1867, 31 October)
Juan Carlos Alom (1964, 1 December - )
Jerry Burchard (1931, 1 December - 2011, 17 May)
Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898, 1 December - 1983)
Robert Glenn Ketchum (1947, 1 December - )
Simon Marsden (1948, 1 December - 2012, 22 January)
Queen Alexandra (1844, 1 December - 1925, 20 November)
Guy Bourdin (1928, 2 December - 1991, 29 March)
Carl Strüwe (1898, 2 December - 1988, 7 January)
William Wegman (1943, 2 December - )
Frederick R. Archer (1889, 3 December - 1963, 27 April)
Wilhelm Brasse (1917, 3 December - 2012)
Hugo Brehme (1882, 3 December - 1954, 13 June)
Anne Brigman (1869, 3 December - 1950, 18 February)
William Coupon (1952, 3 December - )
Nicola Perscheid (1864, 3 December - 1930, 12 May)
Michelle Sank (1953, 3 December - )
Kishin Shinoyama (1940, 3 December - )
Scott Bulger (1962, 4 December - )
Samuel Butler (1835, 4 December - 1902, 18 June)
Charles Grogg (1966, 4 December - )
John Campbell Oman (1841, 4 December - 1911, 31 May)
Isaías Orozco-Lang (1974, 4 December - )
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Lyon Playfair (1830, 4 December - 1907, 17 December)
Aaron Siskind (1903, 4 December - 1991, 8 February)
Joan Gentry (1937, 5 December - )
Tim Hetherington (1970, 5 December - 2011, 20 April)
Polycarpe Joaillier (1848, 5 December - 1904, 13 February)
Paul-Émile Botta (1805, 6 December - 1870, 29 March)
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898, 6 December - 1995, 23 August)
Bruce Nauman (1941, 6 December - )
Tempest Anderson (1846, 7 December - 1913, 26 August)
Paul Caponigro (1932, 7 December - )
Miodrag Djordjevic (1919, 7 December - 1994, 16 January)
James Fee (1949, 7 December - 2006, 4 September)
Marc Ferrez (1843, 7 December - 1923, 12 January)
Hans Finsler (1891, 7 December - 1972, 3 April)
Edwin C. Hirschoff (1905, 7 December - 2002, 13 May)
Corine Hörmann (1968, 7 December - )
Hippolyte Jouvin (1825, 7 December - 1889, 3 August)
Val Wilmer (1941, 7 December - )
Louis Ducos du Hauron (1837, 8 December - 1920, 31 August)
Albert J. Leigh (1895, 8 December - 1982, 4 January)
Georges Mèliès (1861, 8 December - 1938, 21 January)
Arnulf Rainer (1929, 8 December - )
E.A. Scholfield (1843, 8 December - 1930, 20 October)
Robert Brown (1833, 9 December - 1876, 18 August)
Roy DeCarava (1919, 9 December - 2009, 27 October)
Franco Fontana (1933, 9 December - )
Edward W. Keck (1870, 9 December - 1912, 16 April)
Pierre Brochet (1922, 10 December - )
Erwin Fieger (1928, 10 December - )
Ruth Gilbert (1909, 10 December - 2007, 7 April)
Benjamin West Kilburn (1827, 10 December - 1909)
Pierre Louÿs (1870, 10 December - 1925, 6 June)
Yuri V. Abramochkin (1936, 11 December - )
Tom Gibson (1930, 11 December - )
Charles Ludolph Griesbach (1847, 11 December - 1907, 13 April)
Robert Koch (1843, 11 December - 1910, 27 May)
Kimura Ihei (1901, 12 December - 1974, 31 May)
Jacob August Lorent (1813, 12 December - 1884, 9 July)
Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (1795, 12 December - 1866, 4 May)
Jane Evelyn Atwood (1947, 15 December - )
Melville Clarke (1834, 15 December - 1878, 1 February)
Paul Hill (1941, 15 December - )
René Smets (1939, 15 December - )
Carl Uytterhaegen (1944, 15 December - )
O. Winston Link (1914, 16 December - 2001, 30 January)
Edward Ruscha (1937, 16 December - )
Paul Cadmus (1904, 17 December - 1999, 12 December)
Gisèle Freund (1908, 19 December - 2000, 31 March)
Jean-Claude Gautrand (1932, 19 December - )
Erika Kiffl (1939, 19 December - )
Charles Betts Waite (1861, 19 December - 1929, 22 March)
George Michael James Giles (1853, 20 December - 1916, 24 August)
Sune Jonsson (1930, 20 December - )
Tsuchida Hiromi (1939, 20 December - )
Tony Vaccaro (1922, 20 December - 2022, 28 December)
Hans Watzek (1848, 20 December - 1903)
Hyacinthe César Delmaet (1828, 21 December - 1862, 11 July)
Rafael Goldchain (1953, 21 December - )
Forman G. Hanna (1881, 21 December - 1950, 20 April)
Emmet Gowin (1941, 22 December - )
Samer Mohdad (1964, 22 December - )
Gotthard Schuh (1897, 22 December - 1969, 29 December)
Edward John Gayer (1833, 22 December - 1878, 12 August)
Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870, 23 December - 1942, 30 May)
Yousuf Karsh (1908, 23 December - 2002, 13 July)
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (1968, 23 December - )
Rodney Smith (1947, 24 December - 2016, 5 December)
Prescott Adamson (1863, 25 December - 1933)
George Robert Ballingall (1825, 25 December - 1868, 15 July)
Barthélémy-Urbain Bianchi (1821, 25 December - 1898)
Louis de Clercq (1836, 25 December - 1901, 27 December)
Colin Murray (1840, 25 December - 1884, 29 December)
Marilyn Bridges (1948, 26 December - )
Budtz Müller & Co. (1837, 26 December - 1884, 30 December)
Josephus Daniels (1927, 26 December - 2013, 1 August)
Laurence Le Guay (1917, 26 December - 1991)
William B. Post (1857, 26 December - 1921, 12 June)
Gunar Binde (1933, 27 December - )
James Chapman (1831, 27 December - 1872, 4 Februry)
Andrew Davidhazy (1941, 27 December - )
Carl De Keyzer (1958, 27 December - )
Andreas Feininger (1906, 27 December - 1999, 18 February)
William A. Garnett (1916, 27 December - 2006, 26 August)
Paul Joyce (1940, 27 December - )
Bernhard A. Skomars (1913, 27 December - 1988, 31 January)
George Dureau (1930, 28 December - 2014, 7 April)
Jean-Gabriel Eynard (1775, 28 December - 1863, 5 February)
Clement Williams (1833, 28 December - 1879, 26 June)
David Knights-Whittome (1876, 29 December - 1943, 4 November)
Lucien Lorelle (1894, 29 December - 1968, 26 February)
Knut Wolfgang Maron (1954, 29 December - )
Robert W. Fichter (1939, 30 December - )
Milton Rogovin (1909, 30 December - 2011, 18 January)
W. Eugene Smith (1918, 30 December - 1978, 15 October)
Carl Ferdinand Stelzner (1805, 30 December - 1894, 23 October)
Perez Mann Batchelder (1818, 31 December - 1873, 25 January)
Andy Summers (1942, 31 December - )
C.W. Woodward (1836, 31 December - 1894, 4 October)
Deaths
Wayne Albee (1882 - 1937, 1 December)
Max Alpert (1899, 18 March - 1980, 1 December)
E.D. Archibald (1851 - 1913, 1 December)
Anton Hautmann (1821, 20 June - 1862, 1 December)
Tibor Honty (1907, 9 May - 1968, 1 December)
Julia Marshall (1896 - 1994, 1 December)
William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843, 24 July - 1920, 2 December)
Angie Acland (1849, 26 June - 1930, 2 December)
Robert Howlett (1830 - 1858, 2 December)
Victor Keppler (1904, 30 September - 1987, 2 December)
Alexander Rodchenko (1891, 23 November - 1956, 3 December)
Sebastian Finsterwalder (1862, 4 October - 1951, 4 December)
Arthur Leipzig (1918, 25 October - 2014, 5 December)
Rodney Smith (1947, 24 December - 2016, 5 December)
George Platt Lynes (1907, 15 April - 1955, 6 December)
Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (1815, January 25 - 1901, 6 December)
Loomis Dean (1917 - 2005, 7 December)
Paul-Émile Miot (1827, 11 February - 1900, 7 December)
Ralph Morse (1917, 23 October - 2014, 7 December)
Vernon J. Roufs (1908, 22 May - 2004, 7 December)
Claude Cahun (1894, 25 October - 1954, 8 December)
Charles T. Collier (1853, 13 Sept - 1934, 8 December)
Bart Parker (1934 - 2013, 8 December)
Mark Strizic (1928, 9 April - 2012, 8 December)
Karl Blossfeldt (1865, 13 June - 1932, 9 December)
E.O. Hoppé (1878, 14 April - 1972, 9 December)
Edward David Ritton (1823, 10 April - 1892, 9 December)
Alexander Gardner (1821, 17 October - 1882, 10 December)
Alfred Nobel (1833, 21 October - 1897, 10 December)
Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895, 19 November - 1989, 11 December)
Heinrich Hoffmann (1885, 12 September - 1957, 11 December)
William Edward Kilburn (1818, 28 November - 1891, 11 December)
Anton Stankowski (1906, 18 June - 1998, 11 December)
Heinrich Tönnies (1825, 10 May - 1903, 11 December)
Eva Besnyö (1910, 29 April - 2002, 12 December)
Paul Cadmus (1904, 17 December - 1999, 12 December)
Emilie V. Clarkson (1863, 31 January - 1946, 12 December)
Phil Stern (1919, 3 September - 2014, 13 December)
Larry Sultan (1946 - 2009, 13 December)
John Bullock (1854, 27 September - 1939, 14 December)
Juan Pedro Chabalgoity (1848, 30 June - 1909, 14 December)
Jerry Dantzic (1925, 3 June - 2006, 14 December)
Merrill H. Klassy (1900, 18 October - 1995, 14 December)
Edmund David Lyon (1825 - 1891, 14 December)
W.G. Sebald (1944, 18 May - 2001, 14 December)
Shõmei Tõmatsu (1930, 15 January - 2012, 14 December)
George R. Lawrence (1868, 24 February - 1938, 15 December)
Roger Marshutz (1929, 17 October - 2007, 15 December)
Lord Charles Stanhope (1753, 3 August - 1816, 15 December)
Karl Struss (1886, 30 November - 1981, 15 December)
Frank Eugene (1865, 19 September - 1936, 16 December)
Addison Scurlock (1883, 19 June - 1964, 16 December)
G. Agié (1871, 21 August - 1932, 17 December)
Dr. Isaac I. Hayes (1832, 5 March - 1881, 17 December)
Kenneth Macleod (1840, 23 July - 1922, 17 December)
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Lyon Playfair (1830, 4 December - 1907, 17 December)
Frank Rinehart (1861, 12 February - 1928, 17 December)
V. Royle (1846, 9 June - 1934, 17 December)
Ruth Bernhard (1905, 14 October - 2006, 18 December)
Bob Willoughby (1927, 30 June - 2009, 18 December)
Bill Brandt (1904, 2 May - 1983, 20 December)
B.J. Ochsner (1869, 10 January - 1953, 20 December)
Jane Brown (1925, 13 March - 2014, 21 December)
Georg Emil Hansen (1833, 12 May - 1891, 21 December)
Paul Burty Haviland (1880, 17 June - 1950, 21 December)
George H. Seeley (1880 - 1955, 21 December)
Édouard Baldus (1813, 5 June - 1889, 22 December)
Madame Yevonde (1893, 5 January - 1975, 22 December)
Henry Hardy Cole (1843 - 1916, 23 December)
Achille Devéria (1800, 6 February - 1857, 23 December)
Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen (1824, 22 February - 1907, 23 December)
Ida Kar (1908, 8 April - 1974, 24 December)
Frances Cooke Macgregor (1906, 21 April - 2001, 24 December)
Grete Stern (1904, 9 May - 1999, 24 December)
Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg (1810, 28 November - 1875, 25 December)
I.F. Alger (1828, 8 January - 1907, 26 December)
Georges Demeny (1850, 12 June - 1917, 26 December)
Henri Le Secq (1818, 18 August - 1882, 26 December)
Friedrich Seidenstücker (1882, 26 September - 1966, 26 December)
Weegee (1899, 12 June - 1968, 26 December)
Antoine Claudet (1797, 12 August - 1867, 27 December)
Louis de Clercq (1836, 25 December - 1901, 27 December)
Dallett Fuguet (1868, 24 April - 1933, 27 December)
Kristian Hude (1864, 16 August - 1929, 28 December)
Arthur George Edward Newland (1857, 25 November - 1924, 28 December)
Tony Vaccaro (1922, 20 December - 2022, 28 December)
Ed Van der Elsken (1925, 10 March - 1990, 28 December)
Sabine Weiss (1924, 23 July - 2021, 28 December)
Robert Demachy (1859, 7 July - 1936, 29 December)
Colin Murray (1840, 25 December - 1884, 29 December)
Carl Rau (1858, 3 November - 1940, 29 December)
Gotthard Schuh (1897, 22 December - 1969, 29 December)
Budtz Müller & Co. (1837, 26 December - 1884, 30 December)
El Lissitzky (1890, 23 November - 1941, 30 December)
Ted Serios (1918, 27 November - 2006, 30 December)
Adolphe Braun (1812, 13 June - 1877, 31 December)
Carl-Heinz Chargesheimer (1924, 19 May - 1971, 31 December)
Benjamin Franklin Upton (1818, 3 August - 1910, 31 December)
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