biography
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Ives, Frederick (Eugene)
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| lived:
| (1856–1937)
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| biography:
| Photographer and inventor, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. Apprenticed to a printer as a boy, he was head of the Cornell University photographic library at 18. He experimented with the possibilities of photography as a means of illustration, and invented (1878) and improved (1885) the half-tone process. He later pioneered natural colours for motion pictures (1914). |
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