Maynard Owen Williams

Maynard Owen Williams (September 12, 1888–June 1963) became the first National Geographic foreign correspondent in 1919. Over the course of his career, he explored Asia and witnessed the Russian Revolution.

Maynard Owen Williams at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., while planning a motor car expedition across Asia (1930)

In 1923, he witnessed the public opening of King Tut's Tomb in Kingdom of Egypt, then a British protectorate.[1]

In 1931, he participated in the Croisière Jaune (Yellow Expedition) of Georges-Marie Haardt for the Citroën company and travelled to Afghanistan and British India.[2]

In his own words a "camera-coolie and a roughneck," Williams pioneered the field of travel photography. The Maynard Owen Williams Prize for creative nonfiction at Kalamazoo College is named in his memory.

References
  1. Barbara Levine/Kirsten Jensen: Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums, Hudson (NY): Princeton Architectural Press 2007, p. 155.
  2. Courtlandt D. B. Bryan: Das grosse National Geographic Buch: Ein Jahrhundert Abenteuer und Entdeckungen, Munich: National Geographic Deutschland 2001, p. 180.

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