Photographers [Oo] Paris | Photos by Maynard Owen Williams, 1930s-1940s
Maynard Owen Williams: Self-Portrait in a Cutout Window Silhouette, Paris, 1936
Maynard Owen Williams, Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, 1936
Maynard Owen Williams, Paris, 1936 Maynard Owen Williams, Paris – Quartier Latin, 1930s
Maynard Owen Williams, Paris, 1946 Maynard Owen Williams, Paris, 1936
Maynard Owen Williams, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1936
Maynard Owen Williams, Reading the news
Maynard Owen Williams (1888-1963) was a National Geographic correspondent from 1919. He was an inveterate traveller who began travelling in his teens, explored Asia and witnessed the Russian Revolution, among other adventures.
In his own words a “camera-coolie and a roughneck”, Williams was the Geographic’s first foreign correspondent, and his reports include a description of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1923. Maynard Williams was also an excellent photographer, and pioneered travel photography.
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