| 词条 | Ruth Robertson |
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| name = Ruth Robertson | image = Photo of Ruth Robertson.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Robertson working as a war correspondent with Speed Graphic Alaska 1945 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1905|5|24|mf=y}} | birth_place = Taylorville, Illinois | death_date = {{death date and age|1998|2|17|1905|5|24|mf=y}} | death_place = | nationality = American | education = | field = Photography | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = }} Ruth Agnes McCall Robertson Marietta (May 24, 1905 – February 17, 1998) was an American photojournalist known most for photographing Angel Falls in Venezuela and surveying them to establish them as tallest waterfalls in the world published in National Geographic magazine, November 1949. She was born in Taylorville, Illinois. BiographyRobertson had been a journalist during World War II and after she returned to her routine job at the New York Herald Tribune, felt that her "life lost its thrill."[1] In 1949, Robertson eagerly accepted an assignment to Venezuela.[1] She became interested in Angel Falls and initially took aerial photographs.[1] On April 23, 1949, she set out on an exhibition to reach the falls.[1] They traveled on Rio Acanaan in dugout canoes and endured downpours of rain.[1] On May 12, they finally reached the falls.[1] The expedition was the first to reach the foot of the falls and was also the first to measure it.[1] Associations
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