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Died May 21, 1897, New York City, New York, United States Books Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Col Fremont's Last Expedition Across the Rocky Mountains: Including Three Months' Residence In | ||
Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815 Charleston - 1897) was an American painter and photographer. Born in Charleston, South Carolina into a Jewish family of Portuguese descent. He traveled through the territory of Kansas, Colorado and Utah with John C. Freemont.
He was interested in portrait photography using the daguerreotype method.
It is considered a pioneer in travel photos as were, for example, Francis Bedford, George Wilson Bridges, Maxime Du Camp, and Francis Frith.
He is the subject of a documentary film entitled Carvalho's Journey, by filmmaker Steve Rivo, that was released in 2015.
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