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Thank you for posting the Portugal Madiera stamps, KuoLC... I now have to obtain same. Here are a quartet of French stamps issued 6 April 2020 in honor of Félix Nadar (1820-1910), the first aerial photographer in 1858. This was a non-trivial operation at the time. Nadar was using the wet plate collodion process and had to prepare and develop the plates while up in his balloon. He is fairly well-known for that achievement, in part due to a caricature by Daumier which has been featured on a stamp presented earlier in this thread. Less well known, he seems to have been the first person to take photos underground, using artificial lighting, in the Catacombs of Paris. The mini-sheet employs labels above and below the four stamps. The dozen views are from an innovative 1865 revolving self-portrait. Y&T 5392-5395. Shown here in its original retail packaging which I have not yet opened. I like the second stamp where he cracks a broad smile. I will have to add that to the mustache thread. The labels could eventually form the bald-spot thread if we ever have one  |
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Andorra (Spanish Administration) Modern Art October 9, 2020 The stamp commemorates Pep Aguareles (1965-2019), an Andorran art photographer.  |
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Japan Ozu Yasujiro Birth Centenary October 23, 2003 The stamp depicts film director and screenwriter Ozu Yasujiro (1903-1963) and a vintage movie camera.  |
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Brazil Mercosur - Fashion December 29, 2020 Set of three, one stamp depicts Brazilian photographer Bob Wolfenson (b. 1954) and his camera.  |
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Here is a 2019 issue from Belgium, Scott # 2897e , Yvert 4853 "Digital Native" which includes a representation of a (presumably digital) camera, among other stuff indicating online life, including hashtags, emojis and other icons.... This is one among five stamps in the "Anatomy of a Millenial" series/minisheet which is also below to give the context. Overall, it's quite the spectacle, but I had to acquire it for my photography topical. Seems to be further evidence for the dominance of English in contemporary global online culture, but also of the diminishing diversity of world-wide stamps. I think I'll go have a glass of sherry to ponder this.   |
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KuoLC already posted on the previous page two stamps from the July 2020 set by Portugal Madeira celebrating the Madeira Museum of Photography. Here is the minisheet from that set bearing a different stamp showing a photographer's atelier within the Museum's interior, and of course there is an antique camera. (Michel BL74 containing 407/ Yvert F410). Big stamp - 80 x31 mm.  |
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I'm jumping onto the Mongolia bandwagon with this post. In December 1999 Mongolia issued a set of nine celebrating the 20th anniversary of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). They were issued in a minisheet, and the one in the middle, Yt 2437e depicts a camera and a yurt. Interestingly, the camera depicts clearly the brand, "Canon," which extends onto the stamp above, Yt 3437b, which features television, art, liquor, etc. Wonder if Canon paid someone for the product placement. Here are just the two with the camera. The full minisheet is something of a wild kaleidoscope of stuff ranging from alarm clocks (A), to phones, perfume, motor oil, satellites, sculpture, and the yurt (Y). I don't see a Z. - Jonathan  |
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Switzerland 2008 (Sc. /Y&T 2014) celebrates the work of prominent photographer and teacher Hans Finsler (1891-1972). This is his "Eggs in Mirror" which was issued in a mini-sheet of ten. The FDC apparently has an egg-shaped cancel.  |
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This stamp in souvenir sheet from Saint Vincent & the Grenadines came in my mail yesterday. Issued in 1994 (with a small boatload of others) during the 65th anniversary of Mickey Mouse. Michel 2807 is the only number I came across for the stamp, BL316 for the sheet. Below that one, is a Tanzanian issue also from 1994 showing Goofy up a tree with a camera. Tanzania had another two with cameras but I drew the line at just the one when I got it some months ago. Michel 1920 is the stamp, the souvenir sheet is BL266. No other numbers on this.   |
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Here are two from Mozambique, part of an abusive collector-only series issued in 2009 celebrating the centennial of the birth of Sir Peter Scott, the only child of the famous ill-fated polar explorer. Scott (1909-1989) led a noteworthy life -- dare we say "stampworthy?" Olympic bronze medalist in sailing in 1936. He designed and proved the Western Approaches ship camouflage scheme used by Britain during WWII. Mentioned in dispatches and received a DSC for action. But it was as an ornithologist and wildlife painter that he gained prominence. He was also the host of the BBC natural history program Look for many years and was a founder of the World Wildlife Fund (apparently now known as the World Wide Fund for Nature outside the US and Canada). For purposes of this thread on cameras, Michel 3454, shown first, has him in one position photographing some birds on a 175 metical denomination stamp. Next is Michel 3451/Sc. 1899d which has him in a different stance and clothing on a 33 metical denomination. First is from my collection, the other a catalog image.   |
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Lesotho 1988 Finland, Disney - 8v This stamp shows Mickey Mouse taking a picture of his friend Goofy, that is leaning on the Sibelius Monument in Helsinki (Finland). Erected in 1967 by Finnish sculptor Eila Hiltunen, the abstract monument resembles a sound wave made from clusters of organ pipes.  |
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France World Cup Football May 29, 2006 Set of four, one stamp depicts reporters with their cameras.  |
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