Amanul Haque
Bangladeshi photographer
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| Intro | Bangladeshi photographer | ||
| Places | Bangladesh India Pakistan | ||
| was | Photographer | ||
| Work field | Arts | ||
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| Birth | 1925, Shahjadpur Upazila, Bangladesh | ||
| Death | 3 April 2013 (aged 88 years) | ||
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Biography
Amanul Haque (c. 1925 – 3 April 2013) was a Bangladeshi photographer. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2011 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Career
Haque joined Dhaka Medical College as an artist-photographer. He used to sketch human organs for medical students. During Bengali Language Movement in 1952, he took photographs of events with his camera which include the photograph of bullet-riddled body of activist Rafiq Uddin Ahmed.
Haque worked with Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray as still photographer in the film Pather Panchali (1955). He published a photo album titled Prosongo Satyajit which features images of Ray shot by him.
Haque was never married.