Alvin Langdon Coburn

Alvin Langdon Coburn

male, deceased (1966)
Alvin Langdon Coburn (11 January 1882 - 23 November 1966) was a pioneering photographer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he worked in Britain,...
Frederick Scott Archer

Frederick Scott Archer

male, deceased (1857)
Frederick Scott Archer (1813-1857) invented the photographic collodion process which preceded the modern gelatin emulsion. He was born in Bishop's...
Birt Acres

Birt Acres

male, deceased (1918)
Birt Acres (July 23, 1854-1918), born in Richmond, Virginia, USA of English parents was a photographer and film pioneer. He was the inventor of the...
F. Holland Day

F. Holland Day

male, deceased (1933)
Fred Holland Day (July 8, 1864 - November 12, 1933) was a noted photographer and publisher. At the turn of the century, his influence and...
Shahidul Alam

Shahidul Alam

male
Shahidul Alam was born in 1955 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studied and taught chemistry in London where he obtained a PhD from London University. He...
Seamus McGarvey

Seamus McGarvey

male
Seamus McGarvey BSC, born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, began his career as a still photographer before attending film school in London. Upon...
Richard Leach Maddox

Richard Leach Maddox

male, deceased (1902)
Richard Leach Maddox was an English photographer and physician who invented lightweight gelatin negative plates for photography in 1871. The 'wet...
Victor Sloan

Victor Sloan

male, 64 years old
Victor Sloan (born Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 1945) is an Irish photographer and artist. Victor Sloan studied at Belfast and Leeds...
Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer

Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer

male, deceased (1906)
Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer (1859-1906), Anglo-German optician was the son of John Henry Dallmeyer who ran an optics business. He assumed control of...
Amanda Nevill

Amanda Nevill

female
Amanda Nevill is an English arts administrator and is the current Director of the British Film Institute. She was educated in Yorkshire and Paris....