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1956 Photo Contest, Features, 2nd prize
Photographer

Fred Fischer

01 January, 1956

A priest is caught by a dog.

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Fred Fischer

Fred Fischer was born in 1905 in Grinzing near Vienna in Austria. In the 1920s he had been an assistant of the German cinematographer Eugen Schüfftan, before moving to Amsterdam....

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