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All Commemorative Plaques to Photographers in Ireland and the UK
including date of installation and sponsoring organisation
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2019 Camille Silvy (1834-1910)
English Heritage portrait photographer 2019 Frank L’Alouette (1901-1968)
Bognor Regis Town Council WW2 Ministry of Information Photographer 2019 John Minihan (1946-)
Kildare County Council photojournalist and documentary photographer 2018 László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946)
English Heritage modernist photographer and designer 2018 Anna Atkins (1799-1871)
Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council botanical photograms and first photobook 2017 Oliver Sarony (1820-1879)
Scarborough and District Civic Society portrait photographer 2017 Robert Hunt (1807-1887)
University of Exeter, Falmouth Civic Society early photographic pioneer 2017 Alan John Villiers (1903-1982)
Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board sailing ship photography 2017 Alice Seeley (1870-1970)
Frome Society, Frome and District Civic Society documentary photographer and campaigner 2016 Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930)
Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board pioneer of colour photography 2016 Bert Phillips (c.1870-1849)
Wells Civic Society, Wells Rotary Club studio and postcard photographer 2016 John Wood (1854-1914)
private homeowner / documentary photographer (work rediscovered in 1983) 2015 Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901)
The Leamington Spa Local History Society and RPS art photographer 2015 Thomas Rodger (1833-1883)
Saint Andrews Preservation Trust photographic pioneer 2014 Oliver Pike (1877-1963)
Enfield Grammar School, Southgate Civic Trust wildlife photographer 2013 David Bailey (1938-)
Waltham Forest heritage fashion and portrait photographer 2013 Lilian Ream (1877-1961)
Wisbech Society studio photographer 2013 Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (1948-)
Newcastle Gateshead documentary photographer 2010 Robert John Welch (1859-1936)
Ulster History Circle topographical photographer 2010 Bill Brandt (1904-1983)
English Heritage / art, landscape and portrait photographer and photojournalist 2010 George Shadbolt (1819-1901)
London Borough of Haringey photographer, writer and editor 2010 Richard Dykes Alexander (1788-1865)
Ipswich Society early photographic pioneer 2009 Edward G. Tasker (1910-1989)
Barnsley Civic Trust topographical photographer 2009 Norman Parkinson (1913-1990)
The Putney Society portrait and fashion photographer 2009 Elijah Yeoman (1849-1930)
Barnard Castle Town Council topographical photographer
Cllr. Liz Brighouse of Oxfordshire County Council unveils the plaque to Henry Taunt 10/1/2008
2009 Sir John Herschel (1792-1871)
Hawkhurst Heritage photographic inventor 2008 Henry Taunt (1842-1922)
Oxford Civic Society topographical photographer 2008 Bert Hardy (1913-1995)
Southwark Council photojournalist 2008 Warner Gothard (1865-1940)
Barnsley civic trust pioneer of the montage postcard 2008 Annie Brophy (1899-1986)
Waterford Civic Trust studio photographer 2008 Claude Cahun (1894-1954)
Jersey heritage artist / surrealist 2006 Gladstone Adams (1880-1966)
City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Ouseburn Mission documentary and sports photographer c.2005 Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1894-1922)
Whitby Civic Society portait and documentary photographer 2004 Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
Friends of Kingston Museum / photographic motion studies and topographical photographer 2004 Roger Fenton (1819-1869)
John Renwick Union Cordage Ltd. war and landscape photographer 2003 Lee Miller (1907-1977)
English Heritage war, fashion and art photographer 2000 George Rodger (1908-1995)
Hale Civic Society photojournalist c.2000 William Thompson (1822-1879)
NA pioneer of underwater photography 1999 Terence Donovan (1936-1996)
City of Westminster and Olympus cameras fashion photographer 1998 Hugo van Wadenoyen (1892-1959)
Cheltenham Civic Society, Cheltenham Camera Club landscape / art photographer 1998 Lee Miller (1907-1977)
RPS war, fashion and art photographer
1997 Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
BFI / photographic motion studies and topographical photographer 1997 Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
RPS / photographic motion studies and topographical photographer 1997 Anna Atkins (1799-1871)
RPS botanical photograms and first photobook 1997 Samuel Bourne (1834-1912)
RPS topographical photographer, especially of India 1997 Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966)
RPS pictorialist photographer 1996 Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
RPS portrait and art photographer 1994 Tony Ray-Jones (1941-1972)
Westminster city council and RPA documentary photographer 1993 Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972)
National Art Collections Fund portrait, travel and topographical photographer 1993 Sir John Benjamin Stone (1838-1914)
Birmingham Civic Society documentary and travel photographer 1991 Roger Fenton (1819-1869)
English Heritage war and landscape photographer 1990 Thomas Rodger (1833-1883)
Saint Andrews Preservation Trust photographic pioneer 1988 Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813-1875)
Wolverhampton Photographic Society, Wolverhampton civic and Historical Society / art photographer 1988 Dr. John Adamson (1809-1870)
Saint Andrews Preservation Trust photographic pioneer 1987 George Washington Wilson (1823-1893)
Aberdeen City Council portrait and landscape photographer 1984 Thankfull Sturdee (1852-1934)
London Borough of Lewisham photojournalist and documentary photographer 1978 Eric Treacy (1907-1978)
NA railway photographer (and Bishop of Wakefield) 1975 Samuel Smith (1802-1892)
Wisbech Society topographical photographer 1963 John Benjamin Dancer (1812-1887)
Library Association, Manchester Photographic Society originator of microphotography 1951 W. H. Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
NA inventor and photographic pioneer plaques where the date of installation could not be discovered. Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) fashion, portrait and war photographer, three plaques by Eastbourne Civic Society, The Heath and Hampstead Society and an unidentified London based sponsor. W. A. Green (1870-1958) Ulster History Circle topographical photographer Robert Adamson (1821-1848) and David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) share a plaque in Edinburgh on their former studio from an unidentified sponsor.
This list includes only subjects who are primarily known as photographers (for example Lewis Carroll is not included).
