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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-01 · 6 entries checked · 6 flagged · 10 issues confirmed · 6 corrected · 4 still open
Clarence Hudson White — White died of a heart attack in Mexico City on July 7, 1925, but the phrasing 'while teaching students' is misleading as to the exact circumstances; he was there on a teaching trip, not actively teaching in a classroom at the moment of death.
Edward S. Curtis — The entry states that the film *In the Land of the Head Hunters* included a white actor in blackface, but the film's cast was entirely Indigenous (Kwakwaka'wakw people) with no documented evidence of a white actor in blackface.
Edward Steichen — Steichen began experimenting with the Autochrome process around 1907, not 1904
Edward Steichen — Steichen directed the Department of Photography at MoMA from 1947 to 1961, not 1962
Eugène Atget — The entry states 'Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death,' but Abbott did not publish 'most' of his photographs; the first major publication of his work was by others before his death.
Eugène Atget — The entry says he gave up acting in 1887 at age 30 and made his first photographs in 1888, but Atget was born in 1857, so age 30 would be 1887, making the 1888 date inconsistent with the age calculation, and the specific claim of first photographs of Amiens an
Gustave Le Gray — The treatise on photography went through four editions in 1850, 1851, 1852, and 1853, but the correct fourth edition year is 1854, not 1853.
Tina Modotti — The entry states Modotti mounted an exhibition of her partner Roubaix de l'Abrie Richey's work only in Mexico City, but the exhibition was actually a group show including works by other artists, not a solo exhibition of his work.
Tina Modotti — The 'DID YOU KNOW' section says Modotti traveled alone from Italy to the United States in 1913, but she actually traveled with her father.
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