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Léopold-Émile Reutlinger

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “french photographer who came from a successful german-jewish family of photographers”. Today it says “peruvian-born french photographer”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “French photographer A photograph by Reutlinger sent as a postcard, 1904”. It now reads “French photographer (1863–1937) A photograph by Reutlinger sent as a postcard, 1904”.
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Léopold-Émile Reutlinger (ca. 1910) A photograph by Reutlinger sent as a postcard Léopold-Émile Reutlinger (1863–1937) was a French photographer who came from a successful German-Jewish family of photographers. His uncle founded the family's photography business ( Charles Reutlinger [ de ] ), and his father was the photographer Émile Reutlinger .1 His son Jean Reutlinger (1891–1914) was also a prominent photographer.2

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “french photographer who came from a successful german-jewish family of photographers”. Today it says “peruvian-born french photographer”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “French photographer A photograph by Reutlinger sent as a postcard, 1904”. It now reads “French photographer (1863–1937) A photograph by Reutlinger sent as a postcard, 1904”. Read the current article and compare.
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french photographer who came from a successful german-jewish family of photographers

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peruvian-born french photographer

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