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James Blair (MP)
Irish planter and politician (1788–1841)
James Blair (c. 1788 – 9 September 1841[1]) was an Irish planter and politician. He entered the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a Tory in 1818 to protect the interests of the West Indian planter class.[2] Blair sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1830, and later from 1837 to 1841.[3][4] When slave owners in the British Empire were compensated for the abolition of slavery in Britain's colonies in 1833, Blair received the biggest single compensation payment.
Early life
Blair was born in County Armagh, Ireland into an Ulster-Scots family c. 1788. He was the son of John Blair, who descended from a Scottish family that immigrated to Ireland from Wigtownshire, which was where the family businesses were located.[3]
Plantation owner
In 1815, his father's brother Lambert Blair left his South American estates jointly to James Blair and his cousin John MacEamon[2] (or MacCamon).[5] These included sugar and cotton plant
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The Photographers: James P. Blair
James Blair was born April 14, 1931 in Philadelphia. However, it was in Pittsburgh where he began his career as a television film photographer and reporter for WIIC-NBC. Between 1950-1952, he joined the staff of the Pittsburgh Photographic Library, headed by Roy Stryker at the University of Pittsburgh. Later, Blair would also work as a Time-Life stringer before becoming a National Geographic staff photographer in 1962.
James Blair's photographs have illustrated more than 40 Geographic articles concentrating on environmental issues, science, and social change. Blair was principal photographer for two Geographic Society books: As We Live and Breathe (1971) and Our Threatened Inheritance (1984), and has contributed to several other publications. He was received numerous White House News Photographers Association and Picture of the Year competition awards. In 1977, Blair won the Overseas Press Club "Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad" award for his South African coverage.
In 1962, Blair had a one-man exhibition at the Carnegie Museum in P
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JAMES P. BLAIR
ABOUT THE LAST LEAF SERIES
This is an exhibit that began with my first major assignment on the environment, in 1970, for the National Geographic. In subsequent coverage’s thru the years I have become more and more concerned about our ability to control the damage we are doing to the earth and feel sure we have now entered an era where what we do, or what we do not do, now, in this generation will be the determining factor in shaping the future of our planet.
My intention as a photographer is to draw attention to this most familiar and beloved part of our Vermont landscape. I want to show how complex and beautiful even these most common elements of nature are. So I have selected these leaves that I picked up as I wandered around the “TAM” trail here in Middlebury. I brought them into my studio and photographed each leaf with an antique eight by ten inch view camera. In order to achieve the greatest detail I put the negative in contact with the positive printing paper, exposed them to light and then developed and fixed the print that you see here.
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