Events
| July 1845 |  | Langenheim & Langenheim , the two brothers William and Frederick, take a panorama of Niagara Falls using five separate Daguerreotypes. | | July 1853 |  | Platt D. Babbit photographs events leading up to the tragic death of Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls. Babbitt was awarded a monopoly to take Daguerreotypes at the Falls in 1853, using the Horseshoe Falls as his setting, and sells his plates to tourists. | | July 1921 | | Fukuhara Shinzo, Kakefuda Isao and Otaguro Motoo put on the Art Photography Exhibition at the Shimeido Gallery and attack traditional art photography. | | July 1995 | | Massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica in the Balkans by Bosnian Serbs | | 2 July 1921 |  | Alfred Stieglitz - An Exhibition of Photography by Alfred Steiglitz - 145 prints, over 128 of which have never been publicly shown, dating from 1886-1921 opens at the Anderson Galleries (Park Avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York). It is an early retrospective of his work. | | 5 July 1853 |  | Two photographs are taken of the burning Mills at Oswego, New York by George N. Barnard who would become one of the great photographers of the American Civil War (1861-1865). | | 7 July 1865 |  | Lewis Powell (aka Payne), David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt are executed at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary in Washington for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and attempting to assassinate Secretary of State Seward. Alexander Gardner documented the execution his photographs were published as wood engravings in Harper's Weekly on 22 July 1865. | | 8 July 2006 | | The largest photograph (negative) ever made was created using an aircraft hanger as a vast pinhole camera at the El Toro Marine Base, Orange County, California. At 11 o'clock the 110‘ long canvas was exposed for 35 minutes. (The Legacy Project) | | 11 July 1854 |  | Southworth & Hawes are issued a patent (No: 11,304) for taking daguerreotypes for stereoscopes. | | 12 July 1854 |  | George Eastman (1854-1932) is born in Waterville, New York. | | 20 July 1933 |  | Staff at the Bauhaus dissolve the organization due to political pressure.
The remarkable talent pool of teachers leave Germany before the Second World War - Josef Albers (1933/USA), Vassily Kandinsky (1933/France), Paul Klee (1933/Switzerland), Walter Gropius (1934/Great Britain, 1937/USA), László Moholy-Nagy (1934/Netherlands, 1935/Great Britain, 1937/USA), Marcel Breuer (1935/Great Britain, 1937/USA), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1937/USA), Herbert Bayer (1938/USA), Walter Peterhans (1938/USA). László Moholy-Nagy goes on to found the New Bauhaus in Chicago (USA) in 1937. | | 20 July 1969 |  | American astronauts (Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin) from Apollo 11 land on the moon whilst Michael Collins looks after the ship. | | 22 July 1865 |  | Wood engravings of the execution of the Lincoln conspirators published in Harper's Weekly. The photographs of Alexander Gardner taken on the day of the execution, 7 July 1865, were the basis for the illustrations. | | 22 July 1975 | | Stanley Forman (Boston Herald American) photographs nineteen year-old Diana Bryant and three-year-old Tiara Jones falling from a fire escape during an apartment fire. | | 24 July 1915 |  | The lake steamer Eastland rolls over in Chicago with the loss of 844 passengers and crew. |
Births
Irving Pobboravsky (1933, 29 July - 2018, June)
Cecil Bendall (1856, 1 July - 1906, 14 March)
Kenneth Josephson (1932, 1 July - )
Léonard Misonne (1870, 1 July - 1943, 14 September)
André Kertész (1894, 2 July - 1985, 27 September)
Frank Adams (1861, 3 July - 1958, 21 February)
Marmaduke Henry Arnott (1858, 3 July - 1943, 14 February)
Julie Blackmon (1966, 3 July - )
Lynne Cohen (1944, 3 July - 2014, 12 May)
Lejaren ŕ Hiller (1880, 3 July - 1969, 23 May)
Boyd Webb (1947, 3 July - )
J.J. Abbott (1840, 4 July - 1914, 2 August)
Jacob Carter (1985, 4 July - )
Van Deren Coke (1921, 4 July - 2004, 11 July)
Tim Maslen (1968, 4 July - )
Erdély Miklós (1928, 4 July - 1986, 22 May)
Elizabeth Opalenik (1947, 4 July - )
Chuck Close (1940, 5 July - 2021, 19 August)
Donigan Cumming (1947, 5 July - )
Paul den Hollander (1950, 5 July - )
Sarah Anne Johnson (1976, 5 July - )
Harry K. Shigeta (1887, 5 July - 1963, 21 April)
Rev William Simpson (1828, 5 July - 1902, 15 July)
Sophus Williams (1835, 5 July - 1900, 18 October)
Raymond Depardon (1942, 6 July - )
Robert Ellison (1944, 6 July - 1968, 6 March)
Heinrich Harrer (1912, 6 July - 2006, 7 January)
Deborah Turbeville (1937, 6 July - 2013, 24 October)
Larry Wiese (1940, 6 July - )
Mieczyslaw Berman (1903, 7 July - 1975, 6 May)
Yul Brynner (1915, 7 July - 1985, 10 October)
Isabel Agnes Cowper (1826, 7 July - 1911, 1 February)
Robert Demachy (1859, 7 July - 1936, 29 December)
Frank B. Gilbreth (1868, 7 July - 1924, 14 June)
Anthony Hernandez (1947, 7 July - )
P.H. Oelman (1880, 7 July - 1957, 7 August)
Romualdas Poerskis (1951, 7 July - )
L. White (1776, 7 July - 1850, 13 April)
Vladimir Brunton (1961, 8 July - )
Gilles Caron (1939, 8 July - 1970, 5 April)
Beniamino Facchinelli (1839, 8 July - 1895, 29 November)
Francis Leopold McClintock (1819, 8 July - 1907, 17 November)
Bobby Neel Adams (1953, 9 July - )
David Hockney (1937, 9 July - )
Henry Peach Robinson (1830, 9 July - 1901, 21 February)
Minor White (1908, 9 July - 1976, 24 June)
David P. Bayles (1952, 10 July - )
Dean Brown (1936, 10 July - 1973, 8 July)
Wendell MacRae (1896, 10 July - 1980, 30 November)
Karl De Laittre Jr. (1909, 11 July - 1939)
Georges Hugnet (1906, 11 July - 1974, 26 June)
Chris Killip (1946, 11 July - 2020, October)
Barbara Astman (1950, 12 July - )
George Eastman (1854, 12 July - 1932, 14 March)
Raoul Hausmann (1886, 12 July - 1971, 1 February)
Otto Steinert (1915, 12 July - 1978, 3 March)
Maurice Tabard (1897, 12 July - 1984, 23 February)
Erich Lessing (1923, 13 July - 2018, 29 August)
Grace Robertson (1930, 13 July - 2021, January)
Gertrude Bell (1868, 14 July - 1926, 12 July)
Frank R. Fraprie (1874, 14 July - 1951, 20 July)
Lee Friedlander (1934, 14 July - )
Marcel Gautherot (1910, 14 July - 1996, 8 October)
John Blakemore (1936, 15 July - )
Thérčse Bonney (1894, 15 July - 1978, 15 January)
Faustinus Deraet (1965, 15 July - )
Robert Miller (1961, 15 July - )
George Zimbel (1929, 15 July - 2023, 9 January)
Nathaniel Batchelder (1824, 16 July - 1860)
J. Wells Champney (1843, 16 July - 1903, 1 May)
F.C. Gundlach (1926, 16 July - )
Joseph T. Keiley (1869, 16 July - 1914, 21 January)
Paul Kenny (1951, 16 July - )
Nasir al-Din Shah (1831, 16 July - 1896, 1 May)
Robert C. Nyquist (1924, 16 July - 2000, 4 March)
George Tosco Peppé (1848, 16 July - 1893, 21 August)
Charles Sheeler (1883, 16 July - 1965, 7 May)
Emmanuel Sougez (1889, 16 July - 1972, 24 August)
Jean Baptiste Corot (1796, 17 July - 1875, 22 February)
Arnold Crane (1932, 17 July - 2014, 22 November)
Jane Gottlieb (1946, 17 July - )
Ida Lansky (1910, 17 July - 1997, 27 November)
Charles Marville (1813, 17 July - 1879, 1 June)
Joy Goldkind (1943, 18 July - )
Ferdinando Ongania (1842, 18 July - 1911, 21 August)
Edgar Degas (1834, 19 July - 1917, 27 September)
Ulrich Mack (1934, 19 July - )
Marcel Moore (1892, 19 July - 1972, 19 February)
Frederick H. Pratt (1873, 19 July - 1958, 11 July)
Cesare Di Liborio (1960, 20 July - )
Charles Horetzky (1838, 20 July - 1900, 30 April)
Robert Yarnall Ritchie (1908, 20 July - 1984)
Heather Angel (1941, 21 July - )
A. Aubrey Bodine (1906, 21 July - 1970, 28 October)
David Hurn (1934, 21 July - )
Russell Lee (1903, 21 July - 1986, 28 August)
Tony Mendoza (1941, 21 July - )
Henri-Victor Regnault (1810, 21 July - 1878, 19 January)
David Potts (1926, 22 July - )
Gerald Robinson (1927, 22 July - )
Christer Strömholm (1918, 22 July - 2002, 11 January)
George Passman Tate (1856, 22 July - ?)
Oscar Bailey (1925, 23 July - )
F. Holland Day (1864, 23 July - 1933, 2 November)
Darius Kinsey (1869, 23 July - 1945, 13 May)
Juan Laurent (1816, 23 July - 1886, 24 November)
Kenneth Macleod (1840, 23 July - 1922, 17 December)
Mike Robinson (1961, 23 July - )
Sabine Weiss (1924, 23 July - 2021, 28 December)
William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843, 24 July - 1920, 2 December)
Robert Janssen (1904, 24 July - 1989)
Alphonse Marie Mucha (1860, 24 July - 1939, 14 July)
James Waterhouse (1842, 24 July - 1922, 28 September)
Colonel Horatio Biden (1829, 27 July - 1908, 19 June)
Thomas Eakins (1844, 25 July - 1916, 25 June)
Jim Dow (1942, 26 July - )
Elliott Erwitt (1928, 26 July - )
Andy Goldsworthy (1956, 26 July - )
Stanley Kubrick (1928, 26 July - 1999, 7 March)
George Bernard Shaw (1856, 26 July - 1950, 2 November)
William Eggleston (1939, 27 July - )
Hugo Henneberg (1863, 27 July - 1918, 11 July)
Edmund Kesting (1892, 27 July - 1970, 21 October)
Jerry Burchfield (1947, 28 July - 2009, 11 September)
Agustin Victor Casasola (1874, 28 July - 1938, 30 March)
Eleanor Parke Custis (1897, 28 July - 1983, 23 July)
Marcel Duchamp (1887, 28 July - 1968, 2 October)
Chris Steele-Perkins (1947, 28 July - )
Rob Wright (1906, 28 July - 1976, 28 October)
Joshua Crissman (1833, 29 July - 1920, 26 May)
Frederick Dally (1838, 29 July - 1914, 28 July)
Major Henry Hugh Peter Deasy (1866, 29 July - 1947, 24 January)
Charles Harbutt (1935, 29 July - 2015)
Erich Hartmann (1922, 29 July - 1999)
Chris Marker (1921, 29 July - 2012, 30 July)
Charles Cushman (1896, 30 July - 1972, 8 June)
Horacio Coppola (1906, 31 July - 2012, 18 June)
Walter Nelson (1942, 31 July - )
Richard Dixon Oldham (1858, 31 July - 1936, 31 May)
Donald P. Wilson (1902, 31 July - 1993, 26 September)
Deaths
A.B. Munro (1857 - 1920, July)
Colonel William Henry Mason (1830, 23 April - 1910, 1 July)
Arthur Burchett (1853, 20 August - 1927, 2 July)
Étienne-Gaspard Robertson (1763, 15 June - 1837, July)
John Benjamin Stone (1838, 9 February - 1914, 2 July)
Robert Lyell (1835, 30 May - 1857, 3 July)
Erwin Blumenfeld (1897, 26 January - 1969, 4 July)
Lala Deen Dayal (1844 - 1905, 5 July)
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765, 7 March - 1833, 5 July)
Marie Sechtlová (1928, 25 March - 2008, 5 July)
Lutz Dille (1922, 29 September - 2008, 6 July)
William J. Stillman (1828, 1 June - 1901, 6 July)
Clarence K. Bros (1902 - 1985, 7 July)
Father Browne (1880, 3 January - 1960, 7 July)
T. Lux Feininger (1910, 11 June - 2011, 7 July)
Paul Martin (1864, 16 April - 1944, 7 July)
Erich Salomon (1886, 28 April - 1944, 7 July)
John Szarkowski (1925 - 2007, 7 July)
Frederic Thesiger Williams (1861, 8 August - 1902, 7 July)
Brassaď (1899, 9 September - 1984, 8 July)
Dean Brown (1936, 10 July - 1973, 8 July)
Catherine Leroy (1944 - 2006, 8 July)
Clarence H. White (1871, 8 April - 1925, 8 July)
Jacob August Lorent (1813, 12 December - 1884, 9 July)
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787, 18 November - 1851, 10 July)
Joseph Mullens (1820, 2 September - 1879, 10 July)
Van Deren Coke (1921, 4 July - 2004, 11 July)
Hyacinthe César Delmaet (1828, 21 December - 1862, 11 July)
Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding (1781 - 1851, 11 July)
Domenico Riccardo Peretti Griva (1882, 28 November - 1962, 11 July)
Hugo Henneberg (1863, 27 July - 1918, 11 July)
Paul Nash (1889, 11 May - 1946, 11 July)
Frederick H. Pratt (1873, 19 July - 1958, 11 July)
Gertrude Bell (1868, 14 July - 1926, 12 July)
Laverne L. Bovair (1914, 16 October - 1991, 12 July)
Norman Gryspeerdt (1911 - 1998, 12 July)
Christine B. Fletcher (1871 - 1961, 13 July)
Yousuf Karsh (1908, 23 December - 2002, 13 July)
Gabriel Lippmann (1845, 16 August - 1921, 13 July)
Martin Munkácsi (1896, 18 May - 1963, 13 July)
Alfred Stieglitz (1864, 1 January - 1946, 13 July)
Carl J. Agrell (1900, 20 February - 1967, 14 July)
Christian Boltanski (1944, 6 September - 2021, 14 July)
M.H. Kimball (1852 - 1898, 14 July)
Alphonse Marie Mucha (1860, 24 July - 1939, 14 July)
George Robert Ballingall (1825, 25 December - 1868, 15 July)
William Dassonville (1879, 20 June - 1957, 15 July)
Reymond Hervey De Montmorency (1835, 19 September - 1880, 15 July)
Wellington Gray (1841, 29 September - 1925, 15 July)
Alois Löcherer (1815, 14 August - 1862, 15 July)
Julius Shulman (1910, 10 October - 2009, 15 July)
Rev William Simpson (1828, 5 July - 1902, 15 July)
Charles Sheridan Blackwood Walton (1829, 24 April - 1889, 15 July)
Frank Bennett Fiske (1883, 11 June - 1952, 18 July)
William Strudwick (1834 - 1910, 18 July)
Vladislav Klembovsky (1860, 28 June - 1921, 19 July)
Ira Latour (1919 - 2015, 19 July)
Andrew Charles Brisbane Neill (1814, 11 April - 1891, 19 July)
James Yarnell (1917, 18 January - 2011, 19 July)
Frank R. Fraprie (1874, 14 July - 1951, 20 July)
Helmut Gernsheim (1913, 1 March - 1995, 20 July)
Antal Vállas (1809, 18 May - 1869, 20 July)
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821, 15 May - 1901, 21 July)
Lee Miller (1907, 23 April - 1977, 21 July)
Harold Burdekin (1899, 19 April - 1944, 22 July)
Cas Oorthuys (1908, 1 November - 1975, 22 July)
Eleanor Parke Custis (1897, 28 July - 1983, 23 July)
Samuel Broadbent (1810 - 1880, 24 July)
Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (1807, 15 February - 1873, 24 July)
John Vanderpant (1884, 11 Jan - 1939, 24 July)
Adam Clark Vroman (1856, 15 April - 1916, 24 July)
H.J. Barby (1858, 22 August - 1930, 25 July)
Julia Pirotte (1908 - 2000, 25 July)
Diane Arbus (1923, 14 March - 1971, 26 July)
Alfred Ward Blundell (1840 - 1879, 26 July)
Kevin Carter (1960, 13 September - 1994, 27 July)
Max Dupain (1911, 4 April - 1992, 27 July)
Constance Stuart Larabee (1914 - 2000, 27 July)
Jerome Liebling (1924, 16 April - 2011, 27 July)
Frederick Dally (1838, 29 July - 1914, 28 July)
Richard Buchta (1845, 19 January - 1894, 29 July)
Pierre Gaudard (1927, 6 October - 2010, 29 July)
François Willčme (1830, 27 May - 1905, 29 July)
Gustave Le Gray (1820, 30 August - 1884, 29 July)
Chris Marker (1921, 29 July - 2012, 30 July)
T.W. Kilmer (1872, 17 March - 1946, 31 July)
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