MARTIN, Charles
USA
Last updated: July 28, 2017 at 0:34 am
Took the first ever underwater Autochromes (natural colour photo) of sea life off Florida’s Dry Tortugas with W.H. Longley for the January 1927 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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