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About Robert John Longini
Born and educated in Chicago, Robert John Longini (1915-1962) became interested in photography at the age of eleven and worked as a documentary film maker and photographer all his life. Among his influences were Robert Capa, the Life magazine photographer and father of modern war photography; Wallace Kirkland, a personal friend who also photographed for Life; and Lázló Moholy-Nagy, the Bauhaus painter and photographer who was head of the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where Longini also taught. A lieutenant in the U.S. Army 163rd Signal Photographic Company, Longini served in North Africa and Italy; he was the official Army photographer at the Casablanca Conference and also the cameraman for the Army documentary The Battle of San Pietro. URL: https://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/findaids/fonds/l/longini.htm
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Robert John Longini's Timeline
| 1915 |
June 28, 1915
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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| 1942 |
October 30, 1942
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Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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| 1962 |
July 16, 1962
Age 47
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Highland Park, IL, USA
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