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Tana Hoban (February 20, 1917 – January 27, 2006) was an American photographer and creator of children's books including many picture books without any words.Tana Hoban was born in Philadelphia to immigrants from Russia. Her father, an advertising manager for Jewish Daily World, encourage a career and enrolled her in art classes when she was very young. In 1938 she earned a fellowship to travel and study painting in Europe. Back in the U.S. she married photographer Edward E. Gallob in 1939 and started photography herself.In 1980 Hoban won a book Caldecott Honor is "One Little Kitten".Hoban created picture books out of photos and thereby taught educational concepts such as signs and symbols, the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, animals, opposites, sizes and prepositions. Her early books w
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Famous Photographers Tell How | Weegee, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Arthur Rothstein, Bruce Downes, Tana Hoban, Philippe Halsman, Bert Stern, Jacob Deschin, Ralph Baum, John Rawlings, Peter Gowland | 1958 | Album |