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   Woodbury
   Walter Bentley
   W. B. W.; W. B. Woodbury ; on his gravestone: Woodberry ;
   
   
   1834
   1885
   London
   
   
   
   Papua New Guinea
   James Page & Walter Bentley Woodbury: Indigenous people of Papua New Guinea (1865-1870 ) ;
   
   ethnological photographer -> James Page ;
   ethnological photography ;
   https://www.pinterest.de/pin/559290847469066160/ ; http://www.artnet.de/k%C3%BCnstler/james-page-and-walter-bentley-woodbury/ ;
   https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/25431389/walter-bentley-woodbury ;
   Theye 1989: 29, 331-334, 341 & 406 ; Scott Merrillees: Batavia in nineteenth century photographs (London 2000) ;
   W. B. W. was a pioneer of ethnological photography in Eastern Indies; he took over 30 patents and became famous with the "Woodburytype Process" of photographic engraving, 1864; cf. also U.S. Patent 77,230 on April 28, 1868 for a "Mode of Producing Designs on Paper". Together with -> James Page he opened a photographic studio in Batavia around 1858.

Further Places of Activity: Australia and Dutch East Indies.

Inventor of photomechanical printing techniques.
   34151638
   
   


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