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  1. Leonardo da Vinci

    1452 – 1519

    Posted in Camera Obscura.
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  2. Johannes Vermeer

    1632 – 1675

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    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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  3. Canaletto

    1697 – 1768

    Posted in Venice.
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  4. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre

    1787 – 1851

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    Colorized Boulevard du Temple at LUNARLOG

    Posted in Early Chemistry.
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  5. Horace Vernet

    1789 – 1863

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    Oriental Institute

    Posted in Egypt.
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  6. Henry Collen

    1797 – 1872

    Posted in 1856 - 60 Opium War #2.
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  7. David Octavius Hill

    1802 – 1870

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    National Galleries of Scotland

    Posted in Scotland.
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  8. Franz Hanfstaengl

    1804 – 1877

    Posted in Classical, Heads of State, Munich.
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  9. Josiah Johnson Hawes

    1808 – 1901

    Posted in Heads of State.
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  10. Jules Lion

    1810 – 1866

    Posted in New Orleans.
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    James Anderson

    1813 – 1877

    Posted in Moon of Earth.
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  12. 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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    Solomon Nunes Carvalho

    1815 – 1897

    Posted in Rail.
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  14. Charles Marville

    1816 – 1879

    Posted in Clouds, Paris.
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  15. Gustave Le Gray

    1820 – 1884

    Posted in Egypt, France.
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  16. Isidore van Kinsbergen

    1821 – 1905

    Posted in Borobudur, Dutch East Indies, Java.
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    Harriet C Tytler

    1828 – 1907

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    Cambridge U

    Posted in 1857 Indian Rebellion.
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  18. Matthew Fortescue Moresby

    Posted in Solomon Islands, Sydney, Vanuatu.
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    John Moran

    1829 – 1902

    Posted in Panama Canal.
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  20. Samuel Bourne

    1834 – 1912

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    Bourne & Shepherd collection at the National Portrait Gallery

    Posted in India, India - Colonial.
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  21. Abel Boulineau

    1839 – 1934

    Posted in France.
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  22. W.H. Jackson

    1843 – 1942

    Posted in Colorado, Columbian Exposition, México, Montana, Union Pacific, Utah, Ute, Wyoming, Yellowstone.
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  23. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins

    1844 – 1916

    Posted in Biomechanics, Motion, Philadelphia.
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    Daniel Freeman

    Born: 1868

    Posted in Washington DC.
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  25. Anna W. Brigman

    1869 – 1950

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    Perdue U

    Posted in California.
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  26. Clarence Hudson White

    1871 – 1925

    Posted in Ohio.
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  27. Edward Steichen

    1879 – 1973

    Posted in 1914 - 18 WWI, Pacific Theater.
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  28. El Lissitzky

    1890 – 1941

    Posted in Soviet Union / Russia.
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  29. Alexandr Rodchenko

    1891 – 1956

    Posted in White Sea-Baltic Canal.
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  30. László Moholy-Nagy

    1895 – 1946

    Posted in Berlin, University of Oxford.
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  31. Ben Shahn

    1898 – 1969

    Websites
    Harvard's searchable gallery

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Arkansas, NYC 1930s, Ohio.
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  32. Brassaï

    1899 – 1984

    Posted in Paris.
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  33. Émile Savitry

    1903 – 1967

    Posted in Jazz, Paris, Visual Arts.
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  34. 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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  35. Humphrey Spender

    1910 – 2005

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    Mass Observation archive

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, England, Morocco.
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  36. Jack Delano

    1914 – 1997

    Posted in 1929 - 40 Great Depression, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Rail.
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  37. Irving Penn

    1917 – 2009

    Posted in Peru.
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  38. Roy DeCarava

    1919 – 2009

    Posted in Jazz, NYC 1950s.
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  39. George Pickow

    1922 – 2010

    Posted in Folk, Jazz, Visual Arts.
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  40. Tom Palazzolo

    Born: 1937

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    Article at the Chicago Reader by Jack Helbig

    Posted in Chicago.
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  41. David Hockney

    Born: 1937

    Posted in Uncategorized.
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  42. Mary Ellen Mark

    Born: 1940

    Posted in Circus + Fairs, Film, Hollywood, Rodeo.
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  43. Keren Su

    Posted in Vietnam.
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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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  45. Aaron Huey

    Born: 1975

    Posted in Lakota.
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