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HOMAI VYARAWALLA , FIRST INDIAN FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER  BORN 1913 DECEMBER 9- 2012 JANUARY 15 Homai Vyarawalla (9 December 1913 – 15 January 2012), commonly known by her pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist.[2][3] First active in the late 1930s, she retired in the early 1970s. In 2011, she was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award of the Republic of India.[4] Homai Vyarawalla was born on 9 December 1913 at Pranjal Shah's house.[5] Personal life[edit source] Vyarawalla was married to Manekshaw Jamshetji Vyarawalla, an accountant and photographer for the Times of India.[6] In 1970, a year after her husband’s death, she gave up photography as she did not wish to work with the new generation paparazzi culture.[7] [8] Homai Vyarawalla then moved to Pilani, Rajasthan, with her only son, Farouq who taught at BITS Pilani. She returned to Vadodara (formerly Baroda) with her son in 1982.[9] After her son's death from...

LOUIS JACQUES MANDE DAGUERRE  THE WORLD FIRST PHOTOGRAPHER  BORN  1787 NOVEMBER 18 On January 7, 1839, members of the French Académie des Sciences were shown products of an invention that would forever change the nature of visual representation: photography. The astonishingly precise pictures they saw were the work of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), a Romantic painter and printmaker most famous until then as the proprietor of the Diorama, a popular Parisian spectacle featuring theatrical painting and lighting effects. Each daguerreotype (as Daguerre dubbed his invention) was a one-of-a-kind image on a highly polished, silver-plated sheet of copper.  daguerreotype  a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapour. Daguerre’s invention did not spring to life fully grown, although in 1839 it may have seemed that way. In fact, Daguerre had been searching since the mid...

MARGARET BOURKE WHITE , FIRST FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER COVERED  INDIAN INDEPENDENCE ,WAR PHOTOS ETC BORN JUNE 14,1904 Margaret Bourke-White WW II, INDIAN INDEPENDECE  Margaret Bourke-White (/ˌbɜːrkˈhwaɪt/; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the firsthand American female war photojournalist, and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover.[1] She died of Parkinson's disease about eighteen years after she developed her first symptoms. Early life[edit] Margaret Bourke-White[2] (born Margaret White),[3] in the Bronx, New York[4] to Joseph Whites, a non-practicing Jew from Poland, and Minnie Bourke, who was of Irish Catholic descent.[5]  She grew up in Bound Brook, New Jersey (in a neighborhood now part of Middlesex), and grad...