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2005 Fay Godwin, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell, dies at age 74, in Hastings, England

2004 Richard Avedon, photographer, dies at 80

2004 Carl Mydans, photographer, Life, dies at 97

2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer, dies at 95

2004 Helmut Newton, photographer, Vogue, dies at 83

2004 Francesco Scavullo, photographer, dies at 82

2002 Herb Ritts, photographer, dies at 50

2002 Barbara Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 54

2002 Galen Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 61

2002 Yousuf Karsh, photographer, dies at 93

2001 Berry Berenson, photographer/actress, dies at 53 - a 9/11 terrorist murder

2001 Alberto Korda, Cuban Photographer

2001 O. Winston Link, American Photographer

1999 Harry Callahan, American Photographer

1998 Roddy McDowall, actor/photographer, Planet of the Apes, dies at 70

1998 Linda McCartney, photographer, organic businesswoman, dies at 56

1997 John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at 81

1996 Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer, dies at 60

1996 Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer, dies at 68

1996 Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at 75

1996 Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game

1995 James Altgens, John F. Kennedy assassination photographer, dies at 76

1995 Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42

1995 John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48

1995 Stanley Devon, photographer, dies at 88

1995 Fred Fehl, photographer, dies at 89

1995 INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer

1995 Alfred Eisenstaedt, American Photographer

1995 Willem Noordhoek, photographer, dies at 78

1995 Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82

1995 Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82

1995 Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78

1995 Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69

1995 Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80

1994 Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51

1994 Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60

1994 Deborah Bear, English still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44

1994 Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40

1994 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32

1994 Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81

1993 Scott Heiser, U.S. photographer (Interview), dies at 44

1993 Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38

1993 Mark Kolthoff, Dutch painter/photographer, dies at 92

1993 Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72

1992 Barbara Morgan, photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92

1992 George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87

1991 Berenice Abbott, U.S. photographer, dies at 93

1991 Max Koot, royal photographer, dies

1990 Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65

1989 Robert Mapplethorpe, U.S. photographer, dies at 42

1986 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68

1986 Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92

1985 Andre Kertesz, Hungarian photographer and photojournalist, dies

1984 Ansel Adams, U.S. photographer, dies at 82

1984 Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56

1983 Bill Brandt, British Photographer

1983 James Van Der Zee, American Photographer

1980 John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum

1980 Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76

1980 Axel Springer, Jr., German photographer, commits suicide at 38

1976 Minor White, American Photographer

1975 Walker Evans, U.S. photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71

1973 G Paul H Schuitema, graphically designer/photographer, dies

1971 Margaret Bourke-White, U.S. photographer, dies at 67

1971 Diane Arbus, Nemerov, photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48

1968 Weegee, also known as Arthur Fellig, American Photographer

1967 Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30

1965 Dorothea Lange, American Photographer

1964 August Sander, German Photographer

1962 Daria Scagliola, Italian/Dutch photographer, vuurtorenpostzegels

1958 Edward Weston, American Photographer

1956 Koo Stark, Kathleen Dee-Anne, photographer/actress, Emily

1954 Robert Capa, American Photographer

1954 Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38

1954 Cindy Sherman, American Photographer

1950 Andres Serrano, American Photographer

1947 John Trevor Key, photographer

1946 Robert Mapplethorpe, U.S. photographer

1946 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82

1945 Daniel Topolski, writer/photographer/rowing coach

1945 Sam Abell, born in Toledo, Ohio, photographer, published in National Geographic, artistic photographic style, noted for transcendent qualities, graduate, University of Kentucky, photographic books include 'The Photographic Life', 'The Life of a Photograph'

1944 Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies

1943 Chris Joyce, photographer

1940 Lewis Hine, American Photographer

1940 Galen Rowell, American Photographer

1940 Mary Ellen Mark, American Photographer

1939 Dianne Arndt, artist/photographer

1939 Richard earl of Lichfield, English photographer

1937 Sanne Sannes, Dutch photographer

1936 Jennifer Dickson, artist/photographer

1936 Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer

1935 Don McCullin, British photographer

1934 Richard A. Garland, artist/photographer

1932 Duane Michals, American Photographer

1931 Bernhard Becher, photographer, industrialist builder 19th/20th

1931 Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell

1931 Ron Galella, celebrity photographer, sued by Jackie O

1930 Lord Snowdon, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, London, photographer

1929 Jean Baudrillard, born in France, cultural theorist, philosopher, photographer, known for his concept of hyper-reality

1929 Francesco Scavullo, Staten Island, New York, celebrity photographer

1928 Alberto Korda, Cuban Photographer

1928 Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer

1928 Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations'

1925 Maurice Binder, New York City, photographer/film titler, James Bond

1925 Ed van der Elsken, movie photographer, Een liefdesgeschiedenis

1924 Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer

1924 Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer, A Time of Gods

1923 Richard Avedon, U.S., photographer, 1957 ASMP award

1923 Diane Arbus, New York City, photographer, Vogue/Harper's Bazaar

1923 Diane Arbus, photographer and innovator

1921 Ernst Haas, Austrian Photographer

1920 Helmut Newton, German Photographer

1920 John Howard Griffin, U.S., photographer/author, Black Like Me

1920 Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer, World Press Photo

1918 W. Eugene Smith, U.S. photographer, Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden

1918 Henry Clarke, fashion photographer

1918 Arnold Newman, photographer of Faces USA

1917 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer

1917 Jan Miner, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Crime Photographer

1917 Irving Penn, American Photographer

1916 Willem Noordhoek, photographer

1916 John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter

1915 Hans Namuth, German/U.S. photographer, Todos Santos, Guatemala

1914 O. Winston Link, American Photographer

1914 Ian Ball, photographer

1914 Jack Delano, born in Kiev, Ukraine, attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, composer for Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra

1913 Albert Hardy, photographer

1913 Norman Parkinson, born in England, fashion photographer, Harper's Bazaar

1913 Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer and collector

1912 Johannes D De Jong, Frisian poet/photographer, Kar ut twa

1912 Harry Callahan, American Photographer

1912 Alexander Liberman, editor/painter/photographer, 639

1912 Broderick Vernon Chinnery-Haldane, photographer

1912 Paul H F Brenneker, Netherlands/Antillian photographer/folklorist

1912 Robert Doisneau, photographer

1910 Felix Tournachon, Nadar, French writer/photographer, dies at 89

1908 Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer, Life Magazine

1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in Chanteloup, France, photographer

1908 Minor White, American Photographer

1907 Stanley Devon, photographer

1906 Margaret Bourke-White, photographer, innovator and correspondent

1906 Maria Arnoldo, Adrianus Broeders, photographer/writer

1906 Fred Fehl, Austrian/US Broadway photographer

1905 Ruth Bernhard, German Photographer

1905 Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70

1904 Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies

1904 Bill Brandt, British Photographer

1904 Cecil Beaton, England, royal family photographer

1903 Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer

1903 Walker Evans, U.S., photographer, Fortune Magazine

1903 Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer

1902 Ansel Adams, photographer, 1966 ASMP Award

1901 Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer

1899 Weegee, American Photographer

1899 Arthur Fellig, American Photographer

1898 Berenice Abbott, born in Springfield, Ohio, photographer, World of Atget

1897 G Paul H Schuitema, graphic designer/photographer, System-O-Color

1896 Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72

1895 Dorothea Lange, U.S. documentary photographer

1894 Cliff Hall, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Crime Photographer

1894 Andre Kertesz, born in Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian photographer and photojournalist

1894 Jacques-Henri Lartigue, born in France, photographer

1890 Paul Strand, New York City, photographer, Native Land-1942

1890 Man Ray, U.S. statues artist/photographer/movie, dada

1886 James Van Der Zee, American Photographer

1886 Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61

1886 Erich Salomon, German photographer

1886 Edward Weston, American Photographer

1884 Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer

1883 Imogen Cunningham, photographer, 1965 ASMP award

1879 Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer

1876 August Sander, German Photographer

1874 Lewis Hine, American Photographer

1869 Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+

1864 Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work

1846 William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor

1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

1830 Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer

1825 Joseph Albert, German photographer, albertotype

1815 Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer


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