Both parents were artistically talented, and Rupert was an adept amateur photographer.

Elsie's father, Arthur, was a keen amateur photographer, and had set up his own darkroom.

Marlon Brando, Sr., was a talented amateur photographer.

Alexandra was an enthusiastic amateur photographer.

Jeff Bridges has been an amateur photographer since high school, and began taking photographs on film sets during Starman, at the suggestion of co-star Karen Allen.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Dwight Watson Photographs Photographs taken by mountaineer and amateur photographer Dwight Watson of hiking and skiing expeditions in the Cascade and Olympic Mountain ranges of Washington State, ca.

A professional photographer uses photography to earn money ; amateur photographers take photographs for pleasure and to record an event, emotion, place, or person.

Born in Epsom, Surrey, Parr wanted to become a documentary photographer from the age of fourteen, and cites his grandfather, an amateur photographer, as an early influence.

Having written an article in the 1940s for amateur photographers suggesting an expensive camera was unnecessary for quality photography, Picture Post photographer Bert Hardy used a Brownie camera to stage a carefully posed snapshot of two young women sitting on railings above a breezy Blackpool promenade.

In St. Louis, Morton D. May became his patron and, already an avid amateur photographer and painter, a student of the artist.

* A professional photographer or, at the very least, a very good amateur photographer.

Her mother, Dorothy Deanne ( née Keaton ; 1921 – 2008 ), was a homemaker and amateur photographer ; her father, Jack Newton Ignatius Hall ( 1921 – 1990 ), was a real estate broker and civil engineer.

As early as 1853 amateur photographer William J. Newton proposed the idea that " a ' natural object ', such as a tree, should be photographed in accordance ' the acknowledged principles of fine art '".

He was an avid amateur photographer and painter as a teenager, but it was his brother Weedon who went to art school.

Regnault was also an avid amateur photographer.

They enlist one of the hospital workers, an amateur photographer named Lawrence, to help them with the concept.

Maxwell was photographed with her nurses at Innis Arden Cottage in 1907 and 1911 by Dr. C. Irving Fisher, the Presbyterian Hospital's medical director and an accomplished amateur photographer.

He next decides to murder Henry D ' Ascoyne, an amateur photographer, but is also charmed by Henry's wife, Edith ( Valerie Hobson ).

The striking negative image was first observed on the evening of May 28, 1898, on the reverse photographic plate of amateur photographer Secondo Pia, who was allowed to photograph it while it was being exhibited in the Turin Cathedral.

* Batty Fischer ( 1877 – 1958 ), Luxembourg dentist and amateur photographer

Lydia is an amateur, but nonetheless, talented photographer, entomologist, seamstress, and sketch artist with an innate affinity and love for all things gross, scary, weird and macabre, and who celebrates all that is ( in the words of her film incarnation ) ' strange and unusual '.

# Sultan Ismail was an accomplished amateur photographer and is the father of Modern Malaysian Photography.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

The modern Olympic movement revived interest in amateur sports, and amateur boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908.

In their current form, Olympic and other amateur bouts are typically limited to three or four rounds, scoring is computed by points based on the number of clean blows landed, regardless of impact, and fighters wear protective headgear, reducing the number of injuries, knockdowns, and knockouts.

Amateur boxing may be found at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, and in many other venues sanctioned by amateur boxing associations.

Following the establishment of a definition for an amateur athlete at the 1894 Congress, he would continue to argue that this definition should be amended as necessary, and as late as 1909 would argue that the Olympic movement should develop its definition of amateurism gradually.

This question of the professionalism of ancient Olympic athletes is a subject of debate amongst scholars, with Young and others arguing that the athletes were professional throughout the history of the ancient Games, while other scholars led by Pleket argue that the earliest Olympic athletes were in fact amateur, and that the Games only became professionalised after about 480 BCE.

* December 9 – Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler, 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist

The Omaha Sports Commission is a quasi-governmental nonprofit organization that coordinates much of the professional and amateur athletic activity in the city, including the 2008 and 2012 US Olympic Swimming Team Trials and the building of a new stadium in North Downtown.

The first regulation voted on by the new IOC in 1894 was to allow only amateur athletes to participate in the Olympic Games.

The AAU decided to withdraw Thorpe's amateur status retroactively and asked the International Olympic Commission ( IOC ) to do the same.

They succeeded in having the AAU and United States Olympic Committee overturn its decision and restore Thorpe's amateur status prior to 1913.

Ryun's final season as an amateur in 1972 included the third-best mile of his career ( at the time, also the third fastest in history: a 3: 52. 8 at Toronto, Canada on July 29 ), a 5, 000-meter career best ( 13: 38. 2 at Bakersfield, CA on May 20 ), and an inspiring win in the 1, 500 meters at the U. S. Olympic Trials.

González decorated amateur career includes wins over 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist and current WBA World Super Middleweight Champion Andre Ward ( 24-0, 13KO ); WBO Light Middleweight Champion Alfredo Angulo ( 19-1, 16KO ); IBA Intercontinental Light Middleweight champion Sechew Powell ( 26-2, 15KO ); and an astonishing four wins over former WBC Welterweight Champion Andre Berto ( 27-1, 21KO ).

The following year he solidified his position as one of the premier amateur fighters in the world by winning the 132 lb gold medal at the Olympic Festival, seizing the U. S. Junior Championships at 132 lb, and by becoming the youngest fighter ever to win the U. S. Championships.

* Randy Matson, a former World Champion shot putter, an Olympic Gold ( Mexico City-1968 ) and Olympic Silver ( Tokyo-1964 ) medalist, and James E. Sullivan Award winner as the nation's top amateur athlete ( 1967 ), is a native of Pampa and graduate of Texas A & M University in College Station.

For the 1924 Olympics an attempt was made to include chess in the Olympic Games but this failed because of problems with distinguishing between amateur and professional players.

After taking up the post he moved once again to start a global tournament, but was opposed by the amateur football associations and Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee.

He continued to fight as an amateur throughout the spring and competed in the AAU Olympic tryouts in the Boston Garden.

Merryfield was an inexperienced amateur actor at the time, but was selected because he appeared to fit the description of an old sailor, especially with his distinctive white " Captain Birdseye " beard.

Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Katherine, an amateur jazz singer who worked in a Navy yard during World War II, and Nicholas Turturro, a carpenter and construction worker who fought as a Navy sailor in D-Day.

Elegant is the patron of the Manchu Shih-tzu Society of Great Britain ; he raises shih-tzu ( Chinese lion ) dogs and has been a devoted amateur sailor and owner of small craft for 50 years.

Fitch is an amateur sailor.

Marvin Allan Creamer, Jr. ( born January 24, 1916 ) is a former college professor and amateur American sailor noted for having sailed around the globe without the aid of navigational instruments.

A member of the Sarasota Monthly Meeting ( http :// sarasota. quaker. org / events. html ) of the Society of Friends ( Quakers ), he is also an avid sailor and amateur home builder.