Cherry Kearton
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Cherry Kearton, born in 1871 in the small Yorkshire Dales (Swaledale) town of Thwaite, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, was one of the world's earliest wildlife photographers and writers. Cherry died in 1940 after reading for the BBC's Children's Hour. The Cherry Kearton Medal and Award was created in his honour.
[edit] Photography
Cherry Kearton was a great animal photographer. In the summer of 1896 he and his brother Richard, a naturalist, reached the Outer Hebridean islands of St Kilda and many other remote places. Three years later their famous book With Nature and a Camera, illustrated by no fewer than 160 photographs, was published in London by Cassell & Co.
[edit] Films
With the advent of moving pictures the Kearton brothers went their separate ways and Cherry moved into the field of wildlife documentary film making.
Cherry Kearton directed the following films:
- A Primitive Man's Career to Civilisation (1911)
- Roosevelt in Africa (1910)
- Das Mirakel (1912). US title The Miracle
[edit] References
- Kearton's Wildlife, part of the series Nation on Film BBC Two February 26 2007
