Dick Arentz (1935, 19 May - ) was born - US, MI, Detroit. American photographer and teacher who works particularly in the Arizona area where he teaches. Carl-Heinz Chargesheimer (1924, 19 May - 1971, 31 December) was born - Germany, Cologne. German photographer, sculptor and stage designer. Charles Guillain (1808, 19 May - 1875, 17 February) was born - Lorient. French naval captain, explorer, daguerreotypist and later admiral and Governor of New Caledonia. Lithographs bassed on his daguerreotypes taken in north east Africa were included in his book Voyage a la Côte Orientale d’Afrique, exécuté pendant More... Bert Hardy (1913, 19 May - 1995) was born - England, London. British photojournalist who did stories for ‘Picture Post‘ (UK) including the Inchon landing in Korea in 1950. During the Second World War he took in the D-Day landings in Normandy (June 1944) and recorded the liberation of Paris on 25 More... Kati Horna (1912, 19 May - 2000, 19 October) was born. Spanish-born Hungarian photographer who emmigrated to Paris in 1933. She returned to Spain and worked as a photojournalist during the Spanish Civil War for the anarchist press. She settled in Mexico in 1939 and worked on several newspapers and More... Alexander Hunter (1816, 19 May - ) was born - India, Chittagong. Roman Signer (1938, 19 May - ) was born - Switzerland, Appenzell. Swiss photographer, sculptor and video performance artist. A. Gabler (1833, 25 March - 1888, 19 May) died - Switzerland, nr. Interlaken, Matten. Stanley Greene (1949, 14 February - 2017, 19 May) died. Photojournalist who covered the war in Chechnya and a great many other conflicts around the world. Robert Heinecken (1931, 29 October - 2006, 19 May) died - US, NM, Albuquerque. American photographer and printmaker who used appropriated images from magazines and television to create new art forms that attack the banality of the media. |