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Photography and photographers of the American Civil War

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• William T. Perkins, Jr., a United States Marine who covered an exploding hand grenade with his body, is the only combat photographer to be awarded the Medal of Honor?
• Vittorio Sella’s images of mountains (example, Siniolchu, pictured) were described by fellow photographer Ansel Adams as inspiring "a definitely religious awe"?
• Keith Munyan, Jr., the Los Angeles photographer who has done publicity shots for Hilary Duff, Cindy Crawford, Jessica Simpson, and other celebrities is himself a former model?
• James D. Hutton was a pioneer photographer of the northern Rockies who betrayed the plans for the Federal defense of Alexandria, Virginia, to the Confederacy early in the American Civil War?
• Man of the World was a 1960s UK television series starring Craig Stevens as a world-renowned photographer that spun off the series The Sentimental Agent?
• Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard, noted for his large-format photographs, invented a technique to expose his works directly onto the canvas?
• the electric flash-lamp (pictured), a photographer's light source, was used as an underwater mine detonator fuse?
• the photographer duo of Krupakar-Senani were kidnapped by the bandit Veerappan, while filming the movie Wild Dog Diaries in India?
• during the Siege of Paris, French inventor and photographer René Dagron used carrier pigeons carrying microfilms to send messages across German lines?
• Frederick Hollyer (pictured) was an English photographer known for his platinotypes of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and for portraits of literary and artistic figures?
• David Rubinger was the first photographer to receive the Israel Prize?
• French photographer Robert Demachy took hundreds of photographs and wrote more than a thousand articles on photography, but suddenly gave up the subject without any explanation?
• Buffalo Bills punter John Nies and younger brother Eric Nies (later of MTV's The Real World fame) posed nude for photographer Bruce Weber?
• Australian photographer Olive Cotton captured her childhood friend, photographer Max Dupain, in Fashion shot, Cronulla Sandhills, and married him in 1937?
• photographer Raphael Mazzucco has had images on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in each of the last four years?
• photographer Stewart Shining has shot photos for the covers of both the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the People Magazine Most Beautiful People issue?
• Vietnamese-born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs?
• Texas rancher Montie Ritchie was the photographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to the Baffin Islands in the Canadian Arctic?
• Scottish-Russian photographer William Carrick pioneered Russian ethnographic photography (example pictured)?
• 19th century photographer Napoleon Sarony reportedly paid stage actress Sarah Bernhardt 1500 USD to pose for his camera, which would be equivalent to more than 20,000 USD today?