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Anita Corbin

British photographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ56153343 ↗
Source-derived summary

Anita Corbin (born 1958) is a British photographer. Her collections and exhibitions include Visible Girls (1981) and First Women UK (2018).

The National Portrait Gallery holds eight of her works.

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Visible Girls Revisited

First Women UK

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The public source identifies “Anita Corbin” as british photographer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Anita, Corbin and British.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1981, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Anita, Corbin and British providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q56153343. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958, 1981 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anita Corbin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.