Jean straker biography

          Full title: Jean Straker, Photographer.

        1. Full title: Jean Straker, Photographer.
        2. Ethelred Jean Straker, generally known as Jean Straker, was a British photographer and campaigner against censorship.
        3. Ethelred Jean Straker (20 April – ), generally known as Jean Straker, was a.
        4. Full title: Jean Straker, Photographer.
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          Jean Straker, photographer. London, UK

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          Full title: Jean Straker, Photographer.

          Jean Straker was born in London in 1913. During the Second World War, Straker, a conscientious objector, worked as a photographer. Jean soon discovered how great the need was for detailed, speedy medical photography, particularly of surgical procedures.

          She was born November 29, in Schenectady, NY the daughter of the late Harley and Gwendoline Boggs Schulze.

          There were numerous emergency operations performed during the air raid years and operating techniques were changing and developing rapidly. Photographs, particularly those in sequence, were of the utmost value, as records and in the teaching hospitals as teaching aids.

          Abandoning commercial photography in 1951 Jean set up The "Academy of Visual Arts". Members had access to exhibitions resulting from its program of lecture-demonstrations. In 1951, he opened t