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born in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Illinois
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got his first camera
Kodak Brownie box camera -
Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine became his family's summer home
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graduates from Harvard and enters Harvard Medical School
studied biochemistry and bacteriology before receiving a degree in medicine from Harvard -
suspends studies at Harvard Medical School and enters University of Cambridge, England, to study biochemistry
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receives M.D. from Harvard Medical School
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researches and teaches bacteriology, biochemistry, and biophysics at Harvard Medical Schoo
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became interested in photography
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resigns from teaching and research to pursue photography as a career
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experiments with making color prints in his Chicago darkroom; settles on using Kodak’s wash-off relief process
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awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph various species of North American birds
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54 of his bird photographs were featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico
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first nature photographer to shoot exclusively in a color way
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poduced seven portfolios of nearly eight thousand prints
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began making photographic books with the Sierra Club
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gained a major boost from "In Wilderness is the Preservation of the World" (book)
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wrote that he hoped his color photographs would reveal "a new dimension" in the perception and representaion of nature in photography
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dream to share his bird pictures with a broad audience was realized
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poduced seven portfolios of nearly eight thousand prints
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archive contained more than 8,000 negatives and transparencies of North American birds
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passed away