Volkmar Wentzel
Cinematographer, Visual Artist
1915 – 2006
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Who was Volkmar Wentzel?
Volkmar Kurt Wentzel was a German American photographer and cinematographer. He worked for nearly 50 years for the National Geographic Society as a darkroom technician and photographer, and his professional and personal work was highly acclaimed. He was one of the first people to take photographs of then-little known country of Nepal, and was noted for documenting the final years of many of the traditional tribal kingdoms of Africa.
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- Born
- Feb 8, 1915
Dresden - Profession
- Died
- May 10, 2006
Washington, D.C.
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on July 23, 2013
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