C. Cameron Macauley
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C. Cameron Macauley as a Petty officer in the US Navy, 1944.
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| Born |
October 20, 1923 Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Died | May 17, 2007 (aged 83) El Cerrito, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Wisconsin, MFA (Creative Photography), 1958 |
| Known for | Photography |
| Notable work | Baboon Ecology (1962) Baboon Social Organization (1963) |
| Awards |
American Indian Film Festival Blue Ribbon Award Columbus International Film & Video Festival Award Chris Award Berlin International Film Festival Award |
| Patron(s) | Minor White |
Charles Cameron Macauley (October 20, 1923 – May 17, 2007) was a photographer, filmmaker and educator noted for his prize winning still photographs, his ethnographic films and his expertise on historic films and photographs. His career spanned over 75 years.
Charles Cameron Macauley was born on October 20, 1923 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was the younger brother of the noted editor and novelist Robie Macauley. Both boys took an interest in photography, and at the age of ten Macauley purchased his first Norton camera, a prototype of the highly successful Univex Model A, which sold for 39 cents and was among the first inexpensive cameras marketed for the general public.
Macauley also experimented with a folding Kodak Bantam camera, a Foth Derby, a Rolleicord I, an Argus, a National Graflex and a Miniature Speed Graphic with a soft focus Verito lens.
By the late 1930s Macauley began doing commercial photography using a 4x5 Speed Graphic. He was briefly employed as a photographer and a photoengraver for The Ottawa Times.
Macauley entered Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1942 and in December hitchhiked to New York to meet Alfred Stieglitz. Although Stieglitz refused to comment on Macauley’s photographs, he permitted the young man to photograph him reclining on a couch.
Macauley returned to Kenyon and enlisted in the Navy in 1943. He completed a 4-month course at the U.S. Naval Photographic School at NAS Pensacola, Florida and then a graduate course in photolithography at the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.. He was assigned to a Photographic Squadron which made mosaic maps of all coastlines in the Western Hemisphere including Greenland. During the war Macauley completed courses in photogrammetry, operational mapping, and hydrography. He later served on board the USS Tangier in the South China Sea.
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