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  1. Johannes Vermeer

    1632 – 1675

    Websites
    Charles Seymour Article mentioning Vermeer and the camera obscura
    Description of Anson Kent Cross's Vermeer's Camera

    Posted in Netherlands.
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  2. Canaletto

    1697 – 1768

    Posted in Venice.
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  3. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

    1765 – 1833

    Websites
    Spéos - Paris Photographic Institute

    Posted in France.
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  4. 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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  5. Henry Fox Talbot

    1800 – 1877

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding, Paris.
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  6. 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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  7. Franz Hanfstaengl

    1804 – 1877

    Posted in Classical, Heads of State, Munich.
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  8. Hippolyte Bayard

    1807 – 1887

    Posted in Fauxtography, France.
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  9. Noël Paymal Lerebours

    1807 – 1873

    Posted in Acropolis of Athens, Arena of Nîmes, Giza Necropolis, Moscow.
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    Hans Thøger Winther

    Posted in Norway.

  11. Édouard Baldus

    1813 – 1889

    Posted in Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée, Flood, France.
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  12. Charles Marville

    1816 – 1879

    Posted in Clouds, Paris.
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  13. Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon

    1818 – 1881

    Posted in Paris.
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  14. Félix Nadar

    1820 – 1910

    Posted in Heads of State, Paris.
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  15. Gustave Le Gray

    1820 – 1884

    Posted in Egypt, France.
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  16. Charles DeForest Fredericks

    1823 – 1894

    Posted in Cuba, Dakota, NYC 1800s, Paris, Venezuela.
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    Eugène Appert

    1830 – 1891

    Posted in Fauxtography, Paris Commune.

  18. Félix Bonfils

    1831 – 1885

    Websites
    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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  19. Knud Knudsen

    1832 – 1915

    Posted in Norway.
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  20. Abel Boulineau

    1839 – 1934

    Posted in France.
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  21. Axel Lindahl

    1841 – 1906

    Posted in Norway.

    Richard Ellis

    1842 – 1924

    Websites
    Article at Business Today

    Posted in Malta.

  23. Eduard Spelterini

    1852 – 1931

    Posted in Giza Necropolis, South Africa's gold mines, Switzerland.
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  24. Martial Caillebotte

    1853 – 1910

    Posted in Paris.
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  25. Eugène Atget

    1857 – 1927

    Posted in Paris.
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  26. Fred Boissonnas

    1858 – 1946

    Posted in Greece.

  27. Anders Beer Wilse

    1865 – 1949

    Posted in 1899 - 1902 Philippine–American War, Alaska, Fishing, Inuit, Klondike Gold Rush, Makah, Norway, Seattle, Shipping.
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  28. August Sander

    1876 – 1964

    Posted in -WORKERS, Germany.
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  29. Léon Gimpel

    1878 – 1948

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Paris.
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  30. Auguste Léon

    Posted in London, Macedonia, Sweden.
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  31. Paul Strand

    1890 – 1976

    Posted in Ghana, Italy, México, Na h-Eileanan Siar (Outer Hebrides), NYC 1910s.
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    Stéphane Passet

    Posted in China, Japan, Mongolia, Paris, Turkey.
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  33. Jacques-Henri Lartigue

    1894 – 1986

    Websites
    BBC doc 'Fixing the Shadows'

    Posted in Paris.
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  34. André Kertész

    1894 – 1985

    Websites
    The Getty

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Hungary, Paris.

  35. Trude Fleischmann

    1895 – 1990

    Posted in Dance, Vienna.

  36. László Moholy-Nagy

    1895 – 1946

    Posted in Berlin, University of Oxford.
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  37. Josef Sudek

    1896 – 1976

    Websites
    Charles Sawyer article

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Prague.
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  38. Martin Munkácsi

    1896 – 1963

    Posted in Hungary, Liberia.

  39. Lotte Jacobi

    1896 – 1990

    Posted in Berlin, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan.

  40. Adolf Schneeberger

    1897 – 1977

    Posted in Czechoslovakia.
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  41. Walter Peterhans

    1897 – 1960

    Posted in Berlin.
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  42. Brassaï

    1899 – 1984

    Posted in Paris.
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    Hans Casparius

    1900 – 1986

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

  44. Yva (Else Neuländer-Simon)

    1900 – 1942

    Posted in Berlin.

  45. Lisette Model

    1901 – 1983

    Websites
    National Gallery of Canada

    Posted in France, NYC 1940s, NYC 1950s.
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  46. Lucien Aigner

    1901 – 1999

    Posted in Hungary, NYC 1930s, NYC 1940s, Paris.

  47. Émile Savitry

    1903 – 1967

    Posted in Jazz, Paris, Visual Arts.
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  48. Wilhelm Angerer

    1904 – 1982

    Posted in Tyrol.
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  49. Todd Webb

    1905 – 2000

    Posted in France, Oil, Pacific Theater.
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  50. Gisèle Freund

    1908 – 2000

    Posted in Germany, Heads of State.

  51. Kata Kálmán

    1909 – 1978

    Posted in Hungary.

  52. Éva Besnyő

    1910 – 2003

    Posted in Amsterdam, Berlin.

  53. Willy Ronis

    1910 – 2009

    Posted in Paris.
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  54. Eliot Elisofon

    1911 – 1973

    Websites
    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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  55. Robert Doisneau

    1912 – 1994

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Paris.
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  56. John Deakin

    1912 – 1972

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Art, Paris, Rome.
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    Henri Salesse

    1914 – 2006

    Websites
    La découverte d'un photographe par Sylvain Maresca

    Posted in France, Housing.
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  58. Franz Krieger

    1914 – 1933

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Austria.
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  59. John Vachon

    1914 – 1975

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Poland, Venezuela.
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    Yoichi R. Okamoto

    1915 – 1985

    Posted in Munich, Official White House Photographer, Washington DC.
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  61. W. Eugene Smith

    1918 – 1978

    Websites
    Memorial Fund

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Heads of State, Jazz, Medicine, Minamata, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Pittsburgh, Spain.
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  62. Walter Barbian

    1919 – 2005

    Posted in Germany.
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  63. Raymond D’Addario

    1920 – 2011

    Posted in Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Re-photography: Places, WWII - Aftermath.
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  64. Lennart Nilsson

    Born: 1922

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, human embryos + fetuses, Sweden.
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  65. Evelyn Hofer

    1922 – 2009

    Posted in London, Spain.
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  66. Erich Hartmann

    1922 – 1999

    Posted in France, Nazi Concentration Camps, Saint Lawrence Seaway.
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  67. Édouard Boubat

    1923 – 1999

    Posted in Spain.
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  68. Mario Giacomelli

    1925 – 2000

    Posted in Italy.

  69. Hugh Bell

    Born: 1927

    Posted in Jazz, Spain.

  70. Miroslav Tichy

    Born: 1928

    Posted in Czechoslovakia.

  71. Jacques Pavlovsky

    Born: 1931

    Posted in France.

  72. Bernt Becher

    1931 – 2007

    Posted in Germany, INDUSTRY.

  73. Rene Burri

    Born: 1933

    Posted in Cuba, Germany.
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  74. 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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  75. Kåre Kivijärvi

    1938 – 1991

    Posted in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Norway, Soviet Union / Russia.
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  76. Josef Koudelka

    Born: 1938

    Posted in Czechoslovakia, Refugees Immigrants Diaspora, Roma / Gypsies.
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  77. Emmet Gowin

    Born: 1941

    Posted in Czechoslovakia, ENVIRONMENT, Hanford Site, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
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  78. Catherine Leroy

    1945 – 2006

    Posted in 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Somalia.
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  79. Gilles Peress

    Born: 1946

    Posted in 1979 Iranian revolution, Balkans, Coal, Northern Ireland, Rwanda.
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  80. Frank Fournier

    Born: 1948

    Posted in Ghana, Romania, Senegal.
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  81. Anne Whiston Spirn

    Born: 1950

    Posted in Dorothea Lange's 1939 places in 2006, Sweden.
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  82. Phillip Farnsworth

    Born: 1950

    Posted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Boston, Haiti, Homeless, Rwanda.
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  83. Kent Klich

    Born: 1952

    Posted in Children, Denmark, Drugs + Addiction, México.
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  84. Peter Turnley

    Born: 1955

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

    Jean-François Leroy

    Born: 1957

    Posted in France.
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  86. Yannis Behrakis

    Born: 1960

    Posted in 1990 - 91 Gulf War Desert Storm, 1991 - 95 Yugoslav Wars, 2001 - present Afghanistan, 2006 - 09 War in Somalia, Greece, Israel + Palestine.
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    Donna Binder

    Born: 1960

    Posted in Yugoslavia.
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  88. Antoine D’Agata

    Born: 1961

    Websites
    Interview with Alex Sturrock at VICE

    Posted in Cambodia, France, México, Quotes.
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    Alexandra Boulat

    Born: 1962

    Posted in 1991 - 95 Yugoslav Wars, 2003 Iraq Invasion, Balkans, Fall of the Taliban, Heads of State.
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  90. Jon Jones

    Born: 1964

    Posted in Balkans.

  91. Ron Haviv

    Born: 1965

    Posted in 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, 1991 - 95 Yugoslav Wars, 2001 - present Afghanistan, Balkans, Haiti, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa.
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  92. Deborah Copaken Kogan

    Born: 1966

    Posted in Israel, Los Angeles, Romania.

  93. Wilfrid Estève

    Born: 1968

    Posted in France.
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  94. Daniel Beltrá

    Born: 1969

    Posted in Spain.
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    Secret Police’s (StB) Surveillance Directorate

    1969 – 1989

    Websites
    Prague through the Lens of the Secret Police at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

    Posted in Prague.
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    Hector Mediavilla

    Posted in Congo, Paris, Spain.
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  97. Chuck Reger

    Posted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Panama, Somalia.
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  98. Joachim Ladefoged

    Born: 1971

    Posted in Albania.
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  99. Yannis Kontos

    Born: 1971

    Posted in Albania, Diamond, México > U.S., Sierra Leone.
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  100. Peter Funch

    Born: 1974

    Posted in Amsterdam, Re-photography: Places.