Peter Cornelius (photographer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German photographer and photojournalist
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Place of Birth: Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Peter Cornelius (photographer)
- Peter Cornelius (1913–1970) was a German photographer and photojournalist.
- After World War II, he began his career with reportage, landscape and sailing photography in his hometown Kiel.
- From the mid fifties, he specialized in color photography as one of the first color photographers in Germany.
- In 1960 he became known to a larger public through the special exhibition Magie der Farbe (Magic of Color) during the Photokina in Cologne.
- His best known work is a 1961 collection of color photographs of Paris.
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