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Norman Parkinson 
21 April 1913 – 15 February 1990
 English portrait and fashion photographer. 
Birth name Ronald William Parkinson Smith.
Born in London.
He began his career in 1931 as an apprentice to the court photographers at Speaight and Sons Ltd. 
In 1934 he opened his own studio together with Norman Kibblewhite.
In 1947 he married the actress and model Wenda Rogerson. 
From 1945 to 1960 he was employed as a portrait and fashion photographer for Vogue.






             
Paul Strand 
October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976.
 American photographer and filmmaker.
His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Strand was born in New York City.
In his late teens, he was a student of renowned documentary photographer Lewis Hineat the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
Some of this early work, like the well-known "Wall Street," experimented with formal abstractions.
Over the next few decades, Strand worked in motion pictures as well as still photography.
In June 1949, Strand left the United States to present Native Land at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia. The remaining 27 years of his life were spent in Orgeval, France where, despite never learning the language, he maintained an impressive creative life, assisted by his third wife, fellow photographer Hazel Kingsbury Strand.
Strand married the painter Rebecca Salsbury in 1922. He photographed Rebecca Salsbury Strand frequently, sometimes with uncommonly close compositions. After divorcing Salsbury, Strand married Virginia Stevens in 1935. They divorced in 1949; he then married Hazel Kingsbury in 1951 and they remained married until his death in 1976.