Gill Sans

A collection of eye-catching and surprisingly candid images from the early days of photography

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One Of The World’s First Color Photos: a gardener holds tomatoes in his apron. United Kingdom, 1905

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Haywood Magee

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Francis Brewer, Joseph Parker and Jim Preece aged around 16 wearing sailor uniforms. 1921. The personal papers of the painter Henry Scott Tuke. Tate Britain.

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Self-Portrait, Photo by André Kertész, September 11, 1921

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Émile Fabry (1865–1966). Artist and model. Musée D'Orsay.

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Port of London, April 1953, photographer unknown

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A photo of the national poet of Turkey, Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873 - 1936) photographed in Helwan, south of Cairo in Egypt, in 1923. Photographer unknown. He wrote the Turkish natioanl anthem in 1921, and was a pamphleteer in support of the civil war. He lived permanently, and taught Turkish, in Egypt from 1925 to early 1936, when he returned to Turkey and died there. He was always more dedicated to Islam than he was to the revolution that Mustapha Kamel Ataturk (1880 - 1938) made lasting and solid.