Researching Will Connell
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 5205 people with the Connell surname? In that year Connell was ranked number 818 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Will means "Form of WILLIAM. resolute guardian" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Will Connell on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Will Connell and the Connell Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 6773 people with the Connell surname in the UK? Connell is now ranked number 888 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Will Connell
Will Connell
William Connell (1898 – 1961) was a self-taught American portrait and industrial photographer.
Connell was born in McPherson, Kansas. His father was a cowpuncher, who abandoned the family. Connell’s mother, a school teacher, moved to California, where Connell attended Los Angeles High School. He dropped out in 10th grade to join the Army, but World War I came to an end and he could not enlist. Connell taught himself photography and later opened a studio in downtown Los Angeles. By the late 1920s, he began to work in commercial photography for publications, such as Life, Sunset, Time, U.S. Camera and Vogue.
By the early 1930s, Connell was working primarily as a glamor and publicity photographer for various motion picture studios, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Republic Studios. During this time he also frequently photographed Los Angeles area landscape. Connell was a close friend of Lloyd Wright the LA Architect and son of Frank Lloyd Wright and documented much of Lloyd Wright's work in the 1930s and 1940s. Later, Connell accepted commissions from the business community. Photographs of commercial, industrial and retail sectors make up the majority of his later work. He photographed pre- and post- World War II industrial production, including developing industries such as aerospace, oil, power generation and transmission, construction and steel. Connell taught photography at Art Center College of Design then in Los Angeles, from 1931 until his death there in 1961. He wrote a long-running column in U.S. Camera called "Counsel by Connell".
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