Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815, 27 April - 1897, 21 May) was born - US, SC, Charleston. American-born Jewish painter and photographer of Spanish-Portuguese descent. He accompanied the 1853-1854 expedition of the explorer John C. Frémont through the territories of Kansas, Colorado, and Utah searching for a railroad route to the Pacific.More... Bruno Chalifour (1956, 27 April - ) was born - France, Limoges. French-born photographer, educator and photo-historian. Peter Keetman (1916, 27 April - 2005, 3 August) was born - Germany, Wupperthal-Elberfeld. In April 1953 he photographed a Volkswagen factory and this series is amongst his most famous work. Julius Adolph Paul Kuntze (1848, 27 April - 1905, 25 October) was born - Germany, Berlin. German photographer who worked with Gustav Adolph Selle. Samuel F.B. Morse (1791, 27 April - 1872, 2 April) was born - US, MA, Charlestown. American inventor and painter. He met Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in Paris on 7th March 1839 and publicized the daguerreotype in the United States. Jack Welpott (1923, 27 April - 2007, 24 November) was born - US, KS, Kansas City. American photographer. Frederick R. Archer (1889, 3 December - 1963, 27 April) died - US, CA, Los Angeles. American photographer. Antoine Fauchery (1827 (?) - 1861, 27 April) died - Japan, Yokohama. French photographer who arrived in Melbourne 2 November 1857 and worked as a photographer with a studio at 132 Collins Street East. He took high quality photographs of early Melbourne, the countryside of Victoria and the goldfields. In 1859 he went More... Frederick Gutekunst (1831, 25 September - 1917, 27 April) died - US, PA, Philadelphia. American studio photographer mostly active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Born in 1831 in the Germantown section of Philadelphia to German immigrant parents, Frederick Gutekunst held a legal apprenticeship, studied pharmacy, and worked in More... J.A. Williams (1817, 19 September - 1892, 27 April) died - US, RI, Newport. |