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  1. Edward Steichen

    1879 – 1973

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Pacific Theater.
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  2. M. Thérèse Bonney

    1894 – 1978

    Posted in Civilians, Russian-Finnish front.

    Prentice Herman Polk

    1898 – 1984

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    University of Delaware exhibit

    Posted in African-American Civil Rights Movement, Alabama, Tuskegee Airmen.
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  4. Alfred Eisenstaedt

    1898 – 1995

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    Digital Journalist

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Atomic Bombings, Heads of State, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.

  5. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    1900 – 1944

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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    Dmitri Kessel

    1902 – 1995

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, 1946 - 49 Greek Civil War, China, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling.

    Ivan Shagin

    1904 – 1982

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    Alexander gallery

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Soviet Union / Russia.

    Galina Sanko

    Born: 1904

    Posted in Russian-Finnish front.

  9. Bill Brandt

    1904 – 1983

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, London.
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  10. Margaret Bourke-White

    1904 – 1971

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, 1946 Great Calcutta Riot, Fauxtography, India, Nazi Concentration Camps, Pakistan, Steel.
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  11. Todd Webb

    1905 – 2000

    Posted in France, Oil, Pacific Theater.
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  12. Mary Marvin Breckinridge

    1905 – 2002

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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    John Gutmann

    1905 – 1998

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, San Fransisco.
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    Georgi Zelma

    1906 – 1984

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  15. Toni Frissel

    1907 – 1988

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Heads of State, Music, Tuskegee Airmen.
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  16. Lee Miller

    1907 – 1977

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

  17. Carl Mydans

    1907 – 2004

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    Digital Journalist

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, 1939 - 45 WWII, Earthquakes, Japan, Philippines.
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    John Swope

    1908 – 1979

    Posted in Civilians, Hollywood, WWII - Aftermath.
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  19. Hans Ertl

    1908 – 2000

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  20. Beaumont Newhall

    1908 – 1993

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    Interview with Joseph Trovato

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  21. Henri Cartier Bresson

    1908 – 2004

    Posted in 1927 Chinese Civil War, 1939 - 45 WWII, 1958 - 61 Great Leap Forward, Dutch East Indies.
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  22. Humphrey Spender

    1910 – 2005

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    Mass Observation archive

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, England, Morocco.
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  23. Alfred T. Palmer

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Douglas Dam, Tennessee.
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  24. Bernhard Walter

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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    J.R. Eyerman

    Posted in Pacific Theater.

    Charles Kerlee

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.

    Norman Hatch

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    Interview

    Posted in Pacific Theater.
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  28. Hugo Jaeger

    Websites
    LIFE gallery

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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    Elmore "Bud" Martin

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  30. Ernst Hofmann

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  31. William H Robinson

    Posted in Fiji, New Guinea, Pacific Theater, Solomon Islands.
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    George Strock

    Born: 1911

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.

  33. 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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  34. Joe Rosenthall

    1911 – 2006

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Pacific Theater.

  35. David 'Chim' Seymour

    1911 – 1956

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    International Center of Photography

    Posted in 1936 - 39 Spanish Civil War, 1939 - 45 WWII, 1956 Suez War.
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  36. Karl Höcker

    1911 – 2000

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    New Yorker

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  37. Marjorie Collins

    1912 – 1985

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  38. Robert Doisneau

    1912 – 1994

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Paris.
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    Oliver E. Pfeiffer

    1912 – 1996

    Posted in Chicago, Pacific Theater.
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  40. Dmitri Baltermants

    1912 – 1990

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.

  41. John Deakin

    1912 – 1972

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Art, Paris, Rome.
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  42. Damien Peter Parer

    1912 – 1944

    Posted in Pacific Theater.
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  43. Yoshito Matsushige – 松重 美人

    1913 – 2005

    Posted in Atomic Bombings, Hiroshima.
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  44. Robert Capa

    1913 – 1954

    Posted in 1936 - 39 Spanish Civil War, 1937 - 45 Sino-Japanese War #2, 1939 - 45 WWII, 1946 - 54 Franco-Vietminh War, 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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  45. Franz Krieger

    1914 – 1933

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Austria.
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    David Eisendrath

    Born: 1914

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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    Ann Rosener

    Born: 1914

    Posted in WWII - Homefront (U.S.).
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  48. Constance Stuart Larrabee

    1914 – 2000

    Posted in Ndebele, North African Theater, South Africa.

  49. David Douglas Duncan

    Born: 1916

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, 1950 - 53 Korean War.
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  50. George Silk

    1916 – 2004

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Atomic Bombings, Nagasaki.

  51. Werner Bischof

    1916 – 1954

    Posted in 1950 - 53 Korean War, 1959 - 75 Vietnam War, WWII - Aftermath.
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  52. Peter Gowland

    1916 – 2010

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Hollywood.

  53. Robert Scurlock

    1917 – 1994

    Posted in Tuskegee Airmen, Washington DC.
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  54. Yevgeny Khaldei

    1917 – 1997

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Fauxtography.
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    Fabian Bachrach

    1917 – 2010

    Posted in Heads of State, Pacific Theater.

  56. Yōsuke Yamahata – 山端 庸介

    1917 – 1966

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    exploratorium

    Posted in Atomic Bombings, Nagasaki.

    Rondal Partridge

    Born: 1917

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, California.
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  58. Shigeo Hayashi – æž— 重男

    1918 – 2002

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    Interview

    Posted in Atomic Bombings, Nagasaki, WWII - Aftermath.
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  59. Wayne Miller

    Born: 1918

    Posted in Atomic Bombings, Chicago, Hiroshima, Pacific Theater.
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  60. W. Eugene Smith

    1918 – 1978

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    Memorial Fund

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, Heads of State, Jazz, Medicine, Minamata, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Pittsburgh, Spain.
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  61. Sid Avery

    1918 – 2002

    Posted in European Theater, Hollywood.
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  62. Phil Stern

    Born: 1919

    Posted in Hollywood, Jazz, North African Theater.
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  63. Raymond D’Addario

    1920 – 2011

    Posted in Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Re-photography: Places, WWII - Aftermath.
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    Rudolf

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    Vice article with photos

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII.
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  65. Esther Bubley

    1921 – 1998

    Posted in CB&Q Railroad, Medicine, Pittsburgh, WWII - Homefront (U.S.).
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  66. Lennart Nilsson

    Born: 1922

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, human embryos + fetuses, Sweden.
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  67. Joe O’Donnell

    1922 – 2007

    Posted in Atomic Bombings, Fauxtography, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Official White House Photographer, Pacific Theater.
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  68. Shōmei Tōmatsu – 東松 照明

    Born: 1930

    Posted in Atomic Bombings, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Okinawa, WWII - Aftermath.

  69. Peter Stackpole

    1933 – 1997

    Posted in Hollywood, Pacific Theater.