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Africa Through a Lens exhibition from the photographic collection of U.K.’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  1. Horace Vernet

    1789 – 1863

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    Oriental Institute

    Posted in Egypt.
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  2. Sir John Frederick William Herschel

    1792 – 1871

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding, Astronomy, Botany, South Africa.
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  3. Gaspard-Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière

    1798 – 1865

    Posted in Acropolis of Athens, Egypt, Giza Necropolis, Hypaethral Temple of Philae, Palestine, Syria, Turkey.
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  4. Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

    1804 – 1892

    Posted in Acropolis of Athens, Egypt, Gournah - Egypt, Greece, Palestine, Probatic Pool - Jerusalem, Rome, Temple of Vesta - Rome, Turkey.
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  5. Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet

    1806 – 1893

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    Also many drawings by Goupil at L'Egypte d'Antan

    Posted in Egypt, Giza Necropolis.
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  6. Noël Paymal Lerebours

    1807 – 1873

    Posted in Acropolis of Athens, Arena of Nîmes, Giza Necropolis, Moscow.
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  7. Vhichen Abdullah

    1820 – 1902

    Posted in Egypt.
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  8. Augustus Washington

    1820 – 1875

    Posted in Connecticut, Gambia, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone.

  9. Gustave Le Gray

    1820 – 1884

    Posted in Egypt, France.
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  10. Francis Frith

    1822 – 1898

    Posted in Egypt, Hypaethral Temple of Philae, India, Leeds.
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  11. Maxime Du Camp

    1822 – 1894

    Posted in Egypt, Karnak Temple complex.
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  12. Hovsep Abdullah

    1830 – 1908

    Posted in Egypt.
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  13. Félix Bonfils

    1831 – 1885

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    Article by Will H. Rockett
    Harvard Semitic Museum Photographic Archives
    The Light of Ancient Athens exhibit at the Princeton University Library

    Posted in Baalbek temple complex - Lebanon, Edfu Temple, Egypt, Giza Necropolis, Greece, Islam, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Mecca, Palestine.
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  14. Antonio Beato

    Died: 1906

    Posted in Egypt, Temple of Amenhotep III - Luxor.

  15. Felice Beato

    1833 – 1908

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    Beato's photo album of Japan at MIT Visualizing Cultures

    Posted in 1853 - 56 Crimean War, 1856 - 60 Opium War #2, 1857 Indian Rebellion, Istanbul, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Sudan.
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    Louis de Clerq

    1836 – 1901

    Posted in Egypt.
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  17. Kevork Abdullah

    1839 – 1918

    Posted in Egypt.
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    Brothers Zangaki

    Posted in Egypt.
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  19. Hippolyte Arnoux

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    Napolean.org

    Posted in Egypt, Suez Canal.

  20. Eduard Spelterini

    1852 – 1931

    Posted in Giza Necropolis, South Africa's gold mines, Switzerland.
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  21. William Herman Rau

    1855 – 1920

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    Caribbean Photo Archive at Flickr

    Posted in 1880 - 81 Boer War #1, 1898 Spanish American War, Egypt, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia.
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  22. Aegidius Pfister

    Died: 1921

    Posted in South Africa, Zulu.
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  23. Carl Hohl

    Posted in German Cameroon, Oil, Telegraphy.
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  24. Eugen Fischer

    1874 – 1967

    Posted in Bogus Science, Herero, Namibia.
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  25. Laure Albin-Guillot

    1879 – 1961

    Posted in Algeria.

  26. Harry Burton

    1879 – 1940

    Posted in Egypt.

    Madeline Mignon

    Posted in Egypt, Ireland.
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  28. Anna Wuhrmann

    1881 – 1971

    Posted in Bali, Bamum, German Cameroon.
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  29. Walther Dobbertin

    1882 – 1961

    Posted in German East Africa.

  30. Paul Strand

    1890 – 1976

    Posted in Ghana, Italy, México, Na h-Eileanan Siar (Outer Hebrides), NYC 1910s.
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    E.G. Malherbe

    1896 – 1983

    Posted in POVERTY, South Africa.
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  32. Martin Munkácsi

    1896 – 1963

    Posted in Hungary, Liberia.

    Hans Casparius

    1900 – 1986

    Posted in Berlin, Canada, Libya, London, Palestine.

  34. Gwilym Iwan Jones

    1904 – 1995

    Posted in Ibibio, Igbo, Ijaw, Nigeria, Ogoni.
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  35. Lee Miller

    1907 – 1977

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Egypt, Nazi Concentration Camps.

  36. George Rodger

    1908 – 1995

    Posted in AFRICA, Nazi Concentration Camps.
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  37. Humphrey Spender

    1910 – 2005

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    Mass Observation archive

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, England, Morocco.
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  38. Wilfred Thesiger

    1910 – 2003

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    Pitt Rivers Museum

    Posted in Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan.
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  39. Eliot Elisofon

    1911 – 1973

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    Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art

    Posted in Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Canary Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Coal, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, New Jersey, Niger, Nigeria, North African Theater, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, soukous, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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  40. John Bryan Ward-Perkins

    1912 – 1981

    Posted in Libya.
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  41. Eve Arnold

    1912 – 2012

    Posted in Afghanistan, African-American Civil Rights Movement, China, England, Hollywood, Migrant Labor, NYC 1940s, South Africa, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  42. William Buller Fagg

    1914 – 1992

    Posted in Benin, Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Yoruba.
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  43. Constance Stuart Larrabee

    1914 – 2000

    Posted in Ndebele, North African Theater, South Africa.

  44. Seydou Keïta

    1921 – 2001

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    Interview with Dominique Anginot

    Posted in Mali.

  45. Fred J. Maroon

    1924 – 2001

    Posted in Egypt, Heads of State, NYC 1950s, Washington DC.
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  46. Georg Gerster

    Born: 1928

    Posted in AFRICA, north.
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  47. David Goldblatt

    Born: 1930

    Posted in South Africa.

  48. Pierre Bourdieu

    1930 – 2002

    Posted in Algeria.
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  49. Jürgen Schadeberg

    Born: 1931

    Posted in Heads of State, Jazz, South Africa.

  50. Jim Blair

    Born: 1931

    Posted in Coal, Islam, South Africa.
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  51. Peter Magubane

    Born: 1932

    Posted in South Africa.
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  52. Bob Gosani

    1934 – 1972

    Posted in South Africa.

  53. Don McCullin

    Born: 1935

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, 1969 - 79 Cambodia, Bangladesh, Biafra, Cambodia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Libya, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia.
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  54. Malick Sidibé

    Born: 1936

    Posted in Mali.

  55. Philip Jones Griffiths

    1936 – 2008

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, 1969 - 79 Cambodia, 1973 Yom Kippur War, Algeria, Cambodia, New Guinea, Northern Ireland, Sudan, Wales.
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    Bob Fletcher

    Born: 1938

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    Library of America

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Angola, Mississippi, Mozambique.
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  57. Ernest Cole

    1940 – 1990

    Posted in South Africa.
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  58. Penny Tweedie

    1940 – 2011

    Posted in 1973 Yom Kippur War, Aboriginal Australians, East Timor, Glasgow, HIV, Uganda.
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  59. Ruth Barnes

    Posted in Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia.
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  60. Sebastião Salgado

    Born: 1944

    Posted in Botswana, Children, Drought, Ethiopia, Kamchatka, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Namibia, Polio, Refugees Immigrants Diaspora, Venezuela.
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  61. Catherine Leroy

    1945 – 2006

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Somalia.
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  62. Omar Badsha

    Born: 1945

    Posted in South Africa.
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  63. Chester Higgins, Jr.

    Born: 1946

    Posted in Alabama, Brazil, Children, Cuba, Egypt, Elderly, Ethiopia, Ghana, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Jazz, Maine, Mali, México, New Mexico, NYC 1970s, Senegal, Sudan, Suriname.
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  64. Gilles Peress

    Born: 1946

    Posted in 1979 Iranian revolution, Balkans, Coal, Northern Ireland, Rwanda.
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    Alon Reininger

    Born: 1947

    Posted in 1973 Yom Kippur War, China, HIV, Malawi, Zambia.
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  66. Antonin Kratochvil

    Born: 1947

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, 2001 - present Afghanistan, Children, Diamond, Extinction, Rwanda.
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  67. Petrus Cornelius Jacobus Oberholzer

    Born: 1947

    Posted in South Africa.

  68. Stephen Shames

    Born: 1947

    Posted in Children, POVERTY, Uganda.
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  69. Frank Fournier

    Born: 1948

    Posted in Ghana, Romania, Senegal.
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  70. James Nachtwey

    Born: 1948

    Posted in 2001 September 11 attacks, 2003 Iraq Invasion, 2004 Asian Tsunami, China, Coal, Congo, HIV, Indonesia, Northern Ireland, Sudan, Thailand, Tuberculosis, Water.
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  71. Bruce Connew

    Born: 1949

    Posted in Coal, New Zealand, South Africa.

  72. Phillip Farnsworth

    Born: 1950

    Posted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Boston, Haiti, Homeless, Rwanda.
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  73. Roger Ballen

    Born: 1950

    Posted in South Africa.

    Mike Wells

    Born: 1950

    Posted in Uganda.

  75. Tom Stoddart

    Born: 1953

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, 1991 - 95 Yugoslav Wars, HIV, Sex Industry, Sudan.
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    Carol Spencer Mitchell

    1954 – 2004

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    Photographic Archive at the University of Texas

    Posted in Gaza Strip, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan.

  77. David Turnley

    Born: 1955

    Posted in 1990 - 91 Gulf War Desert Storm, South Africa.

  78. Peter Turnley

    Born: 1955

    Posted in 1990 - 91 Gulf War Desert Storm, California, China, Indiana, Israel + Palestine, Paris, Quotes, South Africa.

  79. Eli Reed

    Born: 1955

    Posted in Sudan.
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  80. Anthony Suau

    Born: 1956

    Posted in 2007 - 11 Foreclosure / Financial Crisis, Cleveland, Ethiopia, Hunger, Soviet Union / Russia.

  81. Corinne Dufka

    Born: 1958

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    Prosecution witness Corinne Dufka's testimony at the trial of Liberian president Charles Taylor

    Posted in 1980 - 92 El Salvador, 1981 - 90 Nicaragua, 1991 - 95 Yugoslav Wars, Burundi, Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone.
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    Patrick Robert

    Born: 1958

    Posted in Liberia.

    David Jiranek

    1958 – 2003

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    Through the Eyes of Children Rwanda Project

    Posted in Children, Rwanda.
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  84. Gideon Mendel

    Born: 1959

    Posted in Fishing, HIV, Kenya, Orphans, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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  85. Brent Stirton

    Born: 1960

    Posted in HIV, Sierra Leone.
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    Jean Claude Coutausse

    Born: 1960

    Posted in Somalia.
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  87. Zwelethu Mthethwa

    Born: 1960

    Posted in HIV, South Africa.

  88. Colin Finlay

    Born: 1960

    Posted in Haiti, Northern Ireland, Sudan.
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    Patrick Artinian

    Born: 1960

    Posted in 1991 - 95 Yugoslav Wars, Armenia, Earthquakes, Famine, Sudan.
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  90. Kevin Carter

    1960 – 1994

    Posted in Famine, South Africa, Sudan.
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  91. Doug Menuez

    Posted in Ethiopia, Famine, HIV, México, Uganda.

  92. Ed Kashi

    Posted in Niger Delta Oil Spills, Nigeria.
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    Paula Bronstein

    Posted in 2003 Iraq Invasion, 2004 Asian Tsunami, Indonesia, Rwanda, Thailand.

    Mikhael Subotsky

    Posted in Prison, South Africa.

    Lonnie Graham

    Posted in Hunger, Maisen (Papua New Guinea), Uganda.

  96. Carolyn Cole

    Born: 1961

    Posted in 2001 - present Afghanistan, Haiti, Liberia, México, Soviet Union / Russia.

  97. Greg Marinovich

    Born: 1962

    Posted in Israel, Palestine, South Africa.
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    Nadia Benchallal

    Born: 1963

    Posted in Algeria.
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  99. Yunghi Kim

    Born: 1963

    Posted in Famine, Somalia.
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  100. Ken Oosterbroek

    1963 – 1994

    Posted in Angola, South Africa.
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