Sometimes one photo can replace 1000 words. Talented photographers know this and know how to get into our hearts through this amazing art form. The art of photography has been exciting us for many years.
Today we have access to technologies that can even make ordinary photographs beautiful pictures. We use photo editors, buy the latest digital cameras and cool photo paper, like this www.inksystem.kz/paper-dlya-plotter , for the plotter. We get good pictures on this matte paper and we can print them on a plotter. But to become a truly talented photographer, you need something more. List of the most popular photographers of all time and their most famous photographs.
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Jay Meisel is a well-known contemporary photographer who became famous for his simple yet original shots. Even though he doesn't use complex lighting, he manages to capture vibrant and gorgeous shots.
2. Red wall and rope - Jay Meisel. 
Brian Duffy was a famous British fashion photographer from the 60s and 70s. At one time he lost interest in photography and burned most of his works, but then the love of photography returned to him.
Brassai is the pseudonym of Gyula Halas, a famous photographer who became famous for photographing ordinary people. His shots are an expression of pure feelings and emotions.
Annie Leibovitz specializes in portraits. The photographer is best known for her collaborations with Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone magazine. Her stunning celebrity photography makes her the world's most sought-after celebrity photographer.
Jerry Welsmann is famous for his collages. There is not an ounce of Photoshop in Jerry's work. All this is the result of a photo lab master.
Robert Capa is known for his war photographs. He has been in five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the Arab-Israeli War, and the First Vietnam War.
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Time: The 100 Most Influential Photos of All Time
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The American magazine Time presented the 100 most influential photographs of all time.
Journalists, photographers, editors and historians from all over the world have been selecting images for the project for about three years and have conducted thousands of interviews with the authors of the photos, their friends, family members, and people in them.
Each photo is accompanied by a detailed story about its creation.
Milk Drop Crown, Harold Edgerton, 1957
Photo: 100photos.time.comFetus, 18 weeks, Lennart Nilsson, 1965
Photo: 100photos.time.com "The man who stopped the tanks" ... Tiananmen, Jeff Widener, 1989
Photo: 100photos.time.com An iconic photo of an unknown rebel standing in front of a column of Chinese tanks.
Emmett Till, David Jackson, 1955
Photo: 100photos.time.com Size of the Earth, William Anders, 1968
Photo: 100photos.time.com Heroic partisan, Alberto Korda, 1960
Photo: 100photos.time.com The photo of Ernesto Che Guevara in a black beret is recognized as a symbol of the 20th century, the most famous and most reproduced photograph in the world. It was taken on March 5, 1960 in Havana during a memorial service for the victims of the La Coubre explosion.
Gone with the Wind Jackie, Ron Galella, 1971
Photo: 100photos.time.com Salvador Dali, Philippe Halsman, 1948
Photo: 100photos.time.com Star selfie at the Oscars, Bradley Cooper, 2014
Photo: 100photos.time.com Muhammad Ali and Sonia Liston, Neil Leifer, 1965
Photo: 100photos.time.com Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, 1932
Photo: 100photos.time.com Photograph taken by American photographer Charles Clyde Ebbets in 1932 during the Great Depression. It is rightfully considered one of the best photographs in the world and a symbol of the industrialization of the 20th century. It depicts 11 workers sitting in a row on a steel beam at a great height, without insurance, casually eating and chatting among themselves - as if it costs them nothing. However, 260 meters above the streets of New York during times of unemployment scared people less than hunger. There was a construction of the Rockefeller Center, it was the 69th floor.
Pillow fight, Harry Benson, 1964
Photo: 100photos.time.com View from the window on Le Grace, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826
Photo: 100photos.time.com Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first to find (in 1820) a way to fix the image obtained in a camera obscura, using asphalt varnish as a light-sensitive substance. This process was called by him "heliography" (translated from Greek - "drawn by light").
In 1826, with the help of light rays, he received a copy of the engraving, thereby laying the foundation for the reproduction technique. In the same year, 1826, Niépce directed a camera obscura from the window of the workshop to the roofs of neighboring buildings and received, albeit a vague, but fixed light pattern.
It is unlikely that the resulting photo can be called successful. But its dignity is determined not by the clarity of the image, but by a completely different criterion: serial number. She is the first. The world's first photograph. And in this sense, not only successful, but absolutely priceless. And like everything else, it is doomed to eternal life.
Joseph Niepce himself, as befits all great inventors, died in poverty.
Still Untitled Movie #21, Cindy Sherman, 1978
Photo: 100photos.time.com D-Day, Robert Capa, 1944
Photo: 100photos.time.com Pillars of Creation, NASA, 1995
Photo: 100photos.time.com Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d "Hiver, Paris, August 1955, Richard Avedon
Photo: 100photos.time.com Famine in Somalia, James Nachtwey, 1992
Photo: 100photos.time.com Per closed door Donna Ferrato, 1982
Photo: 100photos.time.com The face of AIDS, Therese Frare, 1990
Photo: 100photos.time.com First phone photo, Philippe Kahn, 1997
Photo: 100photos.time.com Falling Man, Richard Drew, 2001
Photo: 100photos.time.com VE Day over Japan in Times Square, Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945
Photo: 100photos.time.com The most famous kiss in the world was filmed by Albert Eisenstadt in Times Square during the celebration of Victory Day over Japan on August 14, 1945. During the crowded noisy festivities, Eisenstadt did not have time to ask the names of the heroes of the picture, and therefore for a long time they remained unknown. It was only in 1980 that it was possible to establish that the nurse in the photograph was Edith Shane. But the name of the sailor is still a mystery - 11 people said that it was them, but they could not prove it.
Here is what Eisenstadt said about the moment of shooting: “I saw a sailor running down the street and grabbing any girl who was in his field of vision. Whether she was old or young, fat or thin, he didn't care. I ran ahead of him with my Watering Can looking back over my shoulder, but I didn't like any of the pictures. Then all of a sudden I saw him grab someone in white. I turned around and filmed the moment the sailor kissed the nurse. If she was wearing dark clothes, I would never have photographed them. As if the sailor was in a white uniform. I took 4 photos in a few seconds, but only one satisfied me.”
Surfing hippos, Michael Nichols, 2000
Photo: 100photos.time.com Horse in motion, Eadweard Muybridge, 1878
Photo: 100photos.time.com Hindenburg airship crash, Sam Shere, 1937
Photo: 100photos.time.com Photojournalist Sam Sheir watched as the Hindenburg came in to land, as workers secured the mooring lines. Suddenly he saw a bright flash and, raising the camera, pressed the button without even looking into the viewfinder. In the next instant, a massive explosion threw him to the ground and he dropped his camera. Sheir took one single photograph, but it was she who became the symbol of the Hindenburg crash, it was she who got the dubious fame of being "the world's first photograph fixing the crash of an aircraft."
Assassination attempts on JFK, frame 313, Abraham Zapruder, 1963
Photo: 100photos.time.com Situation room, Pete Souza, 2011
Photo: 100photos.time.com Falling soldier, Robert Capa, 1936
Photo: 100photos.time.com Michael Jordan, Co Rentmeester, 1984
Photo: 100photos.time.com Salute "Black Power", John Dominis, 1968
Photo: 100photos.time.com Mother of Migrants, Dorothea Lange, 1936
Photo: 100photos.time.com The photo is best known as Migrant Mother, or from the headline of the newspaper article in which it was first printed, "Look into her eyes." However, in the US Library of Congress, this photo is described as: “A needy pea picker from California. Age 32 years. Mother of seven children. Nipomo, California
Babe says goodbye, Nat Fein, 1948
Photo: 100photos.time.com Girl at the Cotton Mill, Lewis Hine, 1908
Photo: 100photos.time.com Gandhi and the Spinning Wheel, Margaret Bourke-White, 1946
Photo: 100photos.time.com Margaret Bourke-White had the rare opportunity to photograph Mahatma Gandhi, India's ideological leader and one of the most celebrated and exalted personalities of the 20th century.
Bourke-White had to prepare diligently for the photo shoot, because Gandhi was very meticulous: he did not like bright light, so good lighting was unacceptable, and he could not be spoken to (it was his day of silence). In addition, she had to learn how to spin with a wheel before taking photographs. She overcame all these trials and hurdles without hesitation.
In the process of obtaining this immortal photograph of Mahatma Gandhi, Bourke-White suffered a series of setbacks. She had technical difficulties on both her first and second attempts: one flash bulb was damaged, and another frame was blank because she forgot to insert a record into the camera.
But in spite of the humid Indian climate at that time, and overcoming ill health, she remained calm, and her third attempt was successful. Margaret departed triumphantly with this wonderful photograph of Gandhi and his spinning wheel.
This momentous shot has become one of his finest portraits, easily recognizable throughout the world. Less than two years later, he was assassinated. With this portrait, Bourke-White immortalized the image of Mahatma Gandhi for the whole world.
Loch Ness Monster, author unknown, 1934
Photo: 100photos.time.com On November 12, 1933, a certain Hugh Gray from the hills near Foyers took the first known photograph of the monster - an extremely low quality blurred image of a certain S-shaped figure. Gray confirmed the information about the appearance of the creature, and experts from Kodak, after checking the negatives, said they were genuine.
Soweto uprising, Sam Nzima, 1976
Photo: 100photos.time.com North Korea, David Guttenfelder, 2013
Photo: 100photos.time.com Dives, Andres Serrano, 1987
Photo: 100photos.time.com Coffins, Tami Silicio, 2004
Photo: 100photos.time.com A Vanishing Race, Edward S. Curtis, 1904
Photo: 100photos.time.com War Terror, Nick Ut, 1972
Photo: 100photos.time.com Blind, Paul Strand, 1916
Photo: 100photos.time.com Raising the flag over the Reichstag, Yevgeny Khaldei, 1945
Photo: 100photos.time.com "Victory Banner over the Reichstag" (in other sources - "Red Banner over the Reichstag") - the name of the photographs from a series of photographs of the Soviet war correspondent Yevgeny Khaldei, taken on the roof of the dilapidated Nazi parliament building. Snapshots are widely used to illustrate victory Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The photographs in this series are among the most common photographs of World War II.
Burning monk, Malcolm Browne, 1963
Photo: 100photos.time.com Malcolm Brown photographed Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc, who set himself on fire to protest the relentless persecution of Buddhists ruling regime. Photography has captured the "hearts and minds" of millions around the world.
Boulevard Temple, Louis Daguerre, 1839
Photo: 100photos.time.com Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of another person in 1838. The photograph of the Boulevard du Temple shows a busy street that appears to be deserted (exposure is 10 minutes, so no movement is visible), except for one person at the bottom left of the photograph (seen when enlarged).
Iraqi girl at CP, Chris Hondros, 2005
Photo: 100photos.time.com Invasion of Prague, Josef Koudelka, 1968
Photo: 100photos.time.com Couple in raccoon coats, James VanDerZee, 1932
Photo: 100photos.time.com Winston Churchill, Yousuf Karsh, 1941
Photo: 100photos.time.com The most famous photograph of one of Britain's most famous and revered politicians was taken under rather amusing circumstances. As you know, Churchill never parted with his cigar, including in photographs. And when photographer Yusuf Karsh came to him to shoot, he was not going to change himself. Yusuf first delicately placed an ashtray in front of the Prime Minister, but he ignored it, and the photographer had to say “I'm sorry, sir” and pull the cigar from Churchill himself.
“When I returned to the camera, he looked as if he wanted to devour me,” Karsh, the author of one of the most expressive portraits of all time, later recalled.
Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, 1860
Photo: 100photos.time.com Bloody Saturday, H.S. Wong, 1937
Photo: 100photos.time.com Execution in Saigon, Eddie Adams, 1968
Photo: 100photos.time.com Hooded Man, Sergeant Ivan Frederick, 2003
Photo: 100photos.time.com Woe, Dmitri Baltermants, 1942
Photo: 100photos.time.com A World War II photograph taken by Soviet photojournalist Dmitry Baltermants in January 1942 in the Crimea, which subsequently gained worldwide fame. The photograph shows the place of execution of civilians by the German occupiers: grief-stricken people walk across the field, looking for relatives among the corpses lying in the snow.
Molotov, Susan Meiselas, 1979
Photo: 100photos.time.com Yosemite Stone Cathedral, Carleton Watkins, 1861
Photo: 100photos.time.com Raising the flag over Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal, 1945
Photo: 100photos.time.com One of the most famous photographs of World War II was taken on February 23, 1945 by Joe Rosenthal. Six members of the US military hoist the US flag on Mount Suribachi, the highest point of a very small island in essence, for which the battle was fought for more than a month.
Interestingly, the moment captured in the picture was not the first flag-raising at this point. The mountain was taken two hours earlier, and that's when the "stars and stripes" were placed on it. But the flag was small, and they decided to replace it with a more substantial one. This moment was captured by Joe Rosenthal, who provided this photograph not only with the Pulitzer Prize for himself, but also proved the existence of the Marine Corps, whose effectiveness was then doubted.
Three of the photographed soldiers then died in the fighting on the island, which continued for another month and three days after the flag was raised. And the three survivors became celebrities in the States because of this picture. The flag survived and is now stored in the Museum of the Marine Corps, torn and battered.
Moonlight on the Pond, Edward Steichen, 1904
Photo: 100photos.time.com The 1904 color photograph of The Pond Moonlight was taken by Edward Steichen. Although color photography was not invented until 1907, Edward made color photo already in 1904. He succeeded in this thanks to the use of several layers of photosensitive rubber. The cost of the picture is estimated at 2,928,000 dollars.
Hand of Mrs Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, 1895
Photo: 100photos.time.com Criticism, Weegee, 1943
Photo: 100photos.time.com Weegee (Weegee - onomatopoeia of the sound of a police siren; real name Arthur Fillig - Arthur Fellig; 1899-1968) - American photojournalist, master of criminal chronicles. The creator of a special genre of documentary photography, capturing New York at night in the 1930s-1950s. The son of an emigrant rabbi from the Russian Empire. In the 1940s worked in Hollywood, in particular with Stanley Kubrick. Influenced many prominent photographers of the 20th century, including Andy Warhol.
Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw, author unknown, 1943
Photo: 100photos.time.com The Starving Child and the Vulture, Kevin Carter, 1993
Photo: 100photos.time.com Cowboy, Richard Prince, 1989
Photo: 100photos.time.com Camelot, Hy Peskin, 1953
Photo: 100photos.time.com Androgyn (6 men + 6 women), Nancy Burson, 1982
Photo: 100photos.time.com Boat Without Smiles, Eddie Adams, 1977
Photo: 100photos.time.com Case House in Los Angeles, Julius Shulman, 1960
Photo: 100photos.time.com Los Angeles, the famous Case Study House No. 22, built by the architect Per König (1925-2004) in 1960.
The photo was taken with a 4"x5" Sinar gimbal camera using the double exposure mode - first there was a slow shutter speed to catch the light of the city and, most importantly, the famous Sunset Boulevard, and as a result, a flash to make the models in the studio and the very interior of the building turn out well.
Trolleybus, New Orleans, Robert Frank, 1955
Photo: 100photos.time.com Demi Moore, Annie Leibovitz, 1991
Photo: 100photos.time.com Munich massacre, Kurt Strumpf, 1972
Photo: 100photos.time.com 99 cents, Andreas Gursky, 1999
Photo: 100photos.time.com Execution in Iran, Jahangir Razmi, 1979
Photo: 100photos.time.com Chairman Mao swims in the Yangtze, author unknown, 1966
Photo: 100photos.time.com American Gothic, Gordon Parks, 1942
Photo: 100photos.time.com In 1928, sixteen-year-old Gordon Parks moved in with his older sister in Minnesota, in St. Paul. But soon, due to quarrels with his sister's husband, he was on the street. He made a living as best he could - playing the piano in a seedy brothel, working as a busboy, playing for pennies on the basketball team. In the late 30s, Parks began to get involved in photography. This occupation gradually grew from a hobby into a talent and professionalism. At the age of 29, he creates his first professional photograph, which he gave the name "American Gothic" (American Gothic).
The Hague, Erich Salomon, 1930
Photo: 100photos.time.com Valley of the Shadow of Death, Roger Fenton, 1855
Photo: 100photos.time.com Village doctor, W. Eugene Smith, 1948
Photo: 100photos.time.com Happy Club, Malick Sidibè, 1963
Photo: 100photos.time.com Rescue from fire. Collapse, Stanley Forman, 1975
Photo: 100photos.time.com Fort Peck Dam, Margaret Bourke-White, 1936
Photo: 100photos.time.com Brian Ridley and Lyle Heather, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1979
Photo: 100photos.time.com Behind Gare Saint-Lazare, Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1932
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Henri Cartier-Bresson is credited with the concept of the "decisive moment" in photography.
Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Lieutenant Charles Levy, 1945
Photo: 100photos.time.com The picture was taken on August 9, 1945 from the board of one of the American bombers after the atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Total number The death toll was 80 thousand people. Three days earlier, an atomic bomb had been dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion killed 166,000 people. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only two examples of the combat use of nuclear weapons in the history of mankind.
Betty Grable, Frank Powolny, 1943
Photo: 100photos.time.com American actress, dancer and singer. Her famous photo in a bathing suit brought her fame during the Second World War as one of the most charming girls of that time. This photo was later included in Life magazine's "100 Photos That Changed the World" list.
Allende's last fight, Luis Orlando Lagos, 1973
Photo: 100photos.time.com Bricklayer, August Sander, 1928
Photo: 100photos.time.com Bandit's Perch, 59½ Mulberry Street, Jacob Riis, circa 1888
Photo: 100photos.time.com The most dangerous street in New York.
Gorilla in the Congo, Brent Stirton, 2007
Photo: 100photos.time.com Shooting in Kent State, John Paul Filo, 1970
Photo: 100photos.time.com Death of Neda, author unknown, 2009
Photo: 100photos.time.com Hitler at the Nazi parade, Heinrich Hoffmann, 1934
Photo: 100photos.time.com Leap into freedom, Peter Leibing, 1961
Photo: 100photos.time.com The Dead of Antietam, Alexander Gardner, 1862
Photo: 100photos.time.com In 1862, Matthew Brady presented an exhibition of photographs of the battle on the river in New York. Antietam, entitled "The Dead of Antietam" (The Dead of Antietam). The public, accustomed to learning about the war from newspapers and idealized canvases of battle painters, was shocked.
Albino, Biafra, Don McCullin, 1969
Photo: 100photos.time.com Third class, Alfred Stieglitz, 1907
Photo: 100photos.time.com "The Steerage" became widely known four years after its creation, after Stieglitz published it in his 1911 edition of "Camera Work", dedicated to his "new style" photographs. In 1915, he reprinted this frame on a large scale using the method of photogravure on parchment and Japanese paper for inclusion in his last magazine.
Birmingham, Alabama, Charles Moore, 1963
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Photo: 100photos.time.com Bosnia, Ron Haviv, 1992
Photo: 100photos.time.com Man in the Moon, Neil Armstrong, NASA, 1969
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In our age, there is only one way to get rich, become famous and go down in history as a photographer - by doing anything, but not photography. One hundred years ago, you could easily have become a great photo artist, since there were two key prerequisites:
a. photography was a complex, troublesome and little known craft;
b. Slowly, technologies arose and were introduced that made it possible to reproduce photographs in newspapers and (a little later) in color magazines.
That is, the glorious moment has come when, by pressing the shutter button, you already understood that millions will see this frame. But these millions did not yet know that they could do the same, since there were no digital soapboxes, full automation and photo dumps on the Internet. Well, talent, of course. You have no competition!
The golden era of photography, perhaps, should be recognized as the middle of the last century. However, many of the artists listed on our list belong to other distant and modern eras.
Helmut Newton, Germany, 1920–2004
A little more than a great and famous fashion photographer with a very, very independent understanding of what eroticism is. Was furiously demanded by almost all glossy magazines, Vogue, Elle and Playboy in the first place. He died at the age of 84 after crashing his car into a concrete wall at full speed.
Richard Avedon, USA, 1923–2004
The god of the black and white portrait, also interesting in that digging through his galleries, you will find anyone. There is absolutely everything in the pictures of this brilliant New York Jew. They say that Richard took his first picture at the age of nine, when the kid accidentally caught Sergei Rachmaninov in the lens.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, France, 1908–2004
An outstanding photorealist, one of the patriarchs of photo reporting and at the same time an invisible man: he had a filigree gift to be able to remain visible to those he shoots. At first he studied as an artist, where he earned a craving for light surrealism, which was then tangibly imprinted in his photographs.
Sebastian Salgado, Brazil, 1944
Creator of almost fantastic images taken from the real world. Salgado was a photojournalist who was especially attracted to anomalies, misfortunes, poverty and environmental disasters - but even such stories of his fascinate with beauty. In 2014, director Wim Wenders made a film about him called "Salt of the Earth" (special prize at the Cannes Film Festival).
William Eugene Smith, USA, 1918-1978
A photojournalist, probably famous for everything a photojournalist can become famous for - from canonical military photographs to expressive and touching portraits of great and ordinary people. Below, as an example, are frames from a session with Charlie Chaplin for Life magazine.
Guy Bourdain, France, 1928-1991
One of the most copied, imitated photographers in the world. Erotic, surreal. Now - a quarter of a century after his death - more and more relevant and modern.
Vigi (Arthur Fellig), USA, 1899-1968
An immigrant from Eastern Europe, now a great classic of street and crime photography. A person managed to arrive at any incident in New York - be it a fire, a murder or a banal scuffle - faster than other paparazzi and, often, the police. However, in addition to all sorts of emergencies, almost all aspects of life in the poorest quarters of the metropolis are noted in his photographs. Based on his photo, the film noir Naked City (1945) was shot, Stanley Kubrick studied from his shots, and Weegee himself is mentioned at the beginning of the comic film Watchmen (2009).
Alexander Rodchenko, USSR, 1891–1956
A pioneer of Soviet design and advertising, Rodchenko, for all that, is a pioneer of constructivism. He was expelled from the Union of Artists for departing from the ideals and style of socialist realism, but, fortunately, it did not come to the camps - he died a natural death at the dawn of the Khrushchev "thaw".
Irvin Penn, USA, 1917–2009
Master of portrait and fashion genre. He is famous for a whole abundance of his own crown chips - for example, to shoot people in the corner of a room or against all sorts of gray, ascetic backgrounds. Famous for the catchphrase: "Shooting a cake can also be art."
Anton Corbijn, Netherlands, 1955
The most prominent rock photographer in the world, whose ascent began with iconic photographs and videos for Depeche Mode and U2. His handwriting is easily recognizable - strong defocus and atmospheric noise. Corbijn also directed several films: Control (a biography of the Joy Division frontman), The American (with George Clooney) and A Most Dangerous Man (based on the novel by Le Carré). If you Google the famous photos of Nirvana, Metallica, or Tom Waits, there's almost a 100% chance that Corbijn's photos will come up first.
Steven Meisel, USA, 1954
One of the most successful fashion photographers in the world, whose name became especially popular in 1992 after the release of Madonna's photo book "Sex". Considered the discoverer of many catwalk superstars such as Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista or Amber Valletta.
Diana Arbus, USA, 1923-1971
Her real name is Diana Nemerova, and she found her niche in photography by working with the most unattractive nature - freaks, dwarfs, transvestites, demented ... In best case- with nudists. In 2006, the biopic Fur was released, where the role of Diana was played by Nicole Kidman.
David LaChapelle, USA, 1963
The master of pop photography (“pop” in the good sense of the word) LaChapelle, in particular, shot videos for Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera, so you will understand his style not only from still photos.
Marc Riboud, France, (1923-2016)
The author of at least a dozen “prints of the era”: you must have seen a hippie girl a million times bring a chamomile to the barrel of a rifle. Riboud has traveled all over the world and is most revered for his portfolio of filming in China and Vietnam, although you can also find his scenes from the life of the Soviet Union. Died at the age of 93.
Elliott Erwitt, France, 1928
A Frenchman with Russian roots, famous for his ironic and absurd look at our troubled world, which is very moving in his still photographs. Not so long ago, he also began to exhibit in galleries under the name André S. Solidor, which is abbreviated as "ass".
Patrick Demarchelier, France/USA, 1943
It is still a living classic of fashion photography, which enriched this genre with a particularly sophisticated sophistication. And at the same time, he reduced the transcendental degree of glamorous overdress, which was the norm before him.
Annie Leibovitz, USA, 1949
A master of fairy-tale plots with a very powerful charge of wit, understandable even to simpletons, far from hyperglamour. Which is not surprising, since the lesbian Annie started out as a staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine.
Today we will analyze photographs that were taken by recognized masters of photography. 10 great photographers. 10 famous photographs.
Philipp Halsman and his Dali Atomicus, 1948
A brilliant artist must have a brilliant portrait. Perhaps Halsman was guided by this. Perhaps he was inspired by Dali's unfinished work Leda Atomica by that time, which can be seen in the photo, perhaps he wanted to transfer surrealism to photography ... In any case, he needed a studio, additional sources of artificial light, several assistants who splashed water from buckets, calmed cats between takes and kept chairs in the air, 6 hours of work, 28 takes and, of course, Salvador Dali himself.
"Dali Atomicus", Philipp Halsman, 1948
Advice: Don't be afraid to do a large number of doubles - one of them will definitely be successful.
Irving Penn and his Girl in Bed, 1949
Despite the apparent simplicity of this picture at first glance, it fascinates. Is not it? Yes, perhaps, all the work of this brilliant photographer can be described in his own words: “If I look at any object for some time, then the sight fascinates me. This is the photographer's curse." And he was able to convey this fascination with the subject like no one else. Natural light from the window, model, contemplative position of the author - and, in this case, the masterpiece is ready.
Girl in Bed, Irving Penn, 1949
Advice:: To take a beautiful picture of someone or something, you have to fall in love with the subject.
Richard Avedon and his Judy, 1948
Almost all of Richard Avedon's photos show bright, but fleeting moments that we usually don't pay much attention to. But sometimes it is moments like these that can open a person's soul.
Judy, Richard Avedon, 1963
Advice: If you want to become a good photographer, try different genres to help you find your niche in photography.
Ansel Adams and his Tetons and the Serpent River, 1942
Talking about the great photographers and their work, we cannot ignore the creator of the zone exposure system and the famous author of books about photography, Ansel Adams. Let's take a look at one of his works: The Tetons and the Serpent River.
In addition to interesting composition, you can see how skillfully Adams uses his system for choosing the ideal exposure of a shot. If you look closely, you can see each of the 10 zones from absolute black to white.
The Tetons and the Serpent River, Ansel Easton Adams, 1942
Advice: even working with digital camera do not ignore traditional recommendations. You can't always rely on automatic exposure.
Henry Cartier Bresson
Naturally, this post simply could not be complete without Henry Cartier-Bresson. The legendary photo reporter, creator of the Magnum Photos agency, said: “I don't like organizing and managing events. This is terrible. We cannot imitate real life. I adore the truth and shoot only the truth.” We can think about Bresson's photography endlessly, but it's even more useful to read his books The Decisive Moment and Imaginary Reality in the English edition.
Advice: Waiting for a good moment, do not miss it!
Alfred Eisenstadt and his Times Square Victory Day
Alfred Eisenstadt became famous thanks to a photo of a sailor kissing his girlfriend. One photo taken at a turning point made him a real star. And it doesn't matter if the photo is blurry. The photographer did a great job capturing the atmosphere.
"V-J Day in Times Square", Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945
Advice: Always carry your camera with you.
Ernst Haas
Ernst Haas is a pioneer of digital photography. His famous quotes:
- Photography is an expression of your ideas and feelings. If the high has no place in your soul, you will never notice them in the outside world.
- Beauty speaks for itself. When the process reaches its peak, I take a picture.
- I don't take pictures of new interesting objects. I try to find something new in familiar things.
- When photography appeared, a new language was born. Now we can talk about reality in the language of reality.
- Your camera type doesn't mean anything. Any camera can capture what you see. But you must see.
- There is only you and your camera. All rules and restrictions are in your head.
- Tell me what you see and I'll tell you who you are.
Ernst Haas. Kyushu Island, Japan, 1981
Advice: beauty is everywhere. Find and feel it.
Yusuf Karsh and his portrait of Winston Churchill
Yusuf Karsh is a famous Canadian photographer known for portraits of prominent political figures. The history of this photo is unusual. After a speech in the lower house of parliament, the British prime minister entered the meeting room and saw the photo equipment. He allowed me to take just one photo and lit a cigar. It is not known exactly why the photographer approached Churchill and removed the cigar from his mouth, but that is exactly what Karsh did. He returned to his camera and took a picture.
The photo shows all the skills of Yusuf Karsh. He managed to create an impression of depth and space with the help of light, perfect pose and gesture. The result is a dramatic, enchanting portrait that vividly shows the British Prime Minister's inner strength.
Portrait of Winston Churchill, Yusuf Karsh, 1941
Advice: don't be afraid to provoke your models to show themselves. You can see what is hidden from everyone.
Guyon Miley
Guyon became a popular photographer thanks to the unique mixture of "algebra and harmony" in his photographs and the effect of the moment stopped. Perhaps the light drawings gained popularity precisely because of Mili. Guyon practiced in different areas constantly experimenting. However, one thing remained unchanged. His ability to capture the grace and drama of the current moment.
Pablo Picasso masters light painting. Guyon Mily, 1949
Advice: do not forget that photography is not only an attractive drawing. Experiment with focus, exposure and shutter speed.
William Smith
We chose to mention this press photographer at the end of the article for a reason. His words should become the slogan of anyone who wants to become a good photographer: “Photography has no end. As soon as I reach the highest point of mastery, an even higher peak is shown in the distance. And I'm on the road again."
William Smith, Dr. Tseriani with a Wounded Child, 1948
Advice: never stop reaching your goals. Shoot not with a camera, but with your soul.
Always analyze the work of famous world photographers in as much detail as possible. Soak up their experiences and notice what expressions they use. One day you will notice how this knowledge is absorbed into your own photographs and becomes the quality of your work.
October 30, 2009, 05:49 pmThese photographs are known to any person who is more or less familiar with the history of photography. Yes, it’s art, because looking at them you understand that here, more than ever, the photographer has gone beyond the framework of an outside observer, into which his lens drives him, and has become an Artist, that is, he rethought reality and passed through himself. Here we see not so much an objective reflection of reality as its subjective assessment given by the author. Each of these photos has its own story... "Federal soldiers who fell on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania" One of the first military photojournalists, Matthew Brady was known as the creator of the daggerotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. Brady had everything: a career, money, his own business. And he decided to risk all this (as well as his own life), following the army of northerners with a camera in his hands. Having narrowly escaped capture in the very first battle in which he took part, Brady somewhat lost his patriotic fervor and began to send assistants to the front line. Over several years of war, Brady and his team took more than 7,000 photographs. That's quite an impressive number, especially considering that taking a single picture required equipment and chemicals placed inside a covered wagon pulled by several horses. Not very similar to the usual digital "soap dishes"? The photographs that seemed so appropriate on the battlefield had a very heavy aura. However, it was thanks to them that ordinary Americans for the first time were able to see the bitter and harsh military reality, not veiled by jingoistic slogans. 
"The assassin of John F. Kennedy was shot..."“Oswald was taken outside. I squeeze the camera. The police hold back the pressure of the townspeople. Oswald took a few steps. I press the shutter. As soon as the shots rang out, I pulled the trigger again, but my flash did not have time to reload. I started to worry about the first photo and two hours later I went to develop the photos.” – Robert H. Jackson The photography that raised the stakes of photojournalists. Omaha Beach, Normandy, France Military photojournalist Robert Capa said that if your photos are bad, it means that you were not close enough to the scene. And he knew what he was talking about. His most famous photographs were taken on the morning of June 6, 1944, when, together with the first detachments of infantry, he landed on the coast of Normandy on the day of the Allied landings. Having come under fire, Capa was forced to dive underwater with the camera to avoid bullets. He barely escaped. Of the four films taken by the photographer on the day of the terrible battle, only 11 frames survived - the rest were hopelessly damaged by an elderly laboratory assistant, who in a hurry lit up almost all the material (as it turned out later, he tried to have time to develop the films before the delivery of the latest issue of Life magazine). Ironically, it was this error in film development that gave several surviving photographs their famous "surreal" appearance (Life magazine erroneously suggested that they were "a little out of focus" in the commentary on the photographs). Fifty years later, director Steven Spielberg, on the set of the landing scene in Normandy from Saving Private Ryan, tried to recreate the effect of Robert Capa's photographs by removing the protective film from the camera lenses for a "blur" effect. "Murder of a Viet Cong by Saigon Police Chief" AP photojournalist Eddie Adams once wrote, "Photography is the most powerful weapon in the world." A very appropriate quote to illustrate his own life - in 1968, his photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head not only won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also completely changed American attitudes to what was happening in Vietnam. Despite the obviousness of the image, in fact, the photograph is not as unambiguous as it seemed to ordinary Americans, filled with sympathy for the executed. The fact is that the man in handcuffs is the captain of the Viet Cong "revenge warriors", and on this day many unarmed civilians were shot dead by him and his henchmen. General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, pictured left, has been haunted by his past all his life: he was refused treatment at an Australian military hospital, after moving to the US, he faced a massive campaign calling for his immediate deportation, the restaurant he opened in Virginia, every day was attacked by vandals. "We know who you are!" - this inscription haunted the general of the army all his life. "He killed a handcuffed man," said Eddie Adams, "and I killed him with my camera." 
"The Death of Omaira Sanchez" November 13, 1985. Eruption of the volcano Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia). Mountain snow melts, and a mass of mud, earth and water 50 meters thick literally wipes everything in its path from the face of the earth. The death toll exceeded 23,000 people. The disaster received a huge response around the world, thanks in part to a photo of a little girl named Omaira Sanchez. She was trapped, up to her neck in slush, her legs trapped in the concrete structure of the house. Rescuers tried to pump out the dirt and free the child, but in vain. The girl held on for three days, after which she became infected with several viruses at once. As journalist Christina Echandia, who was nearby all this time, recalls, Omaira sang and talked with others. She was frightened and constantly thirsty, but she was very courageous. On the third night, she began to hallucinate. The photo was taken a few hours before death. Photographer – Frank Fournier. 
"Portrait of Churchill" January 27, 1941. Winston Churchill went into a photographic studio at 10 Downing Street to have some of his portraits taken, demonstrating his resilience and determination. However, despite everything, his gaze was too relaxed - with a cigar in his hands, great person did not match the image that photographer Yousuf Karsh wanted to get. He approached the great politician and with a sharp movement pulled the cigar right out of his mouth. The result is slightly higher. Churchill looks angrily at the photographer, who, in turn, presses the shutter. So humanity received one of the most famous portraits of Winston Churchill. Two photos showing a grand change in life in the USA. 
grocery store Just a few years before the “Great Depression” of the USA. Shops are overflowing with fish, vegetables and fruits. The photo was taken in Alabama, next to the railroad. "Mother of Settlers" Thanks to legendary photographer Dorothea Lange, Florence Owen Thompson has been the epitome of the Great Depression for many years. Lange took the photograph while visiting a vegetable picker camp in California in February 1936, wanting to show the world the resilience and resilience of a proud nation in hard times. The story of Dorothea's life turned out to be as attractive as her portrait. At 32, she was already the mother of seven children and a widow (her husband died of tuberculosis). Finding themselves virtually destitute in the resettlement labor camp, her family subsisted on the meat of the birds the children managed to shoot and vegetables from the farm, as did the rest of the 2,500 camp workers. The publication of the photo produced the effect of an exploding bomb. The story of Thompson, which appeared on the covers of the most authoritative publications, caused an immediate response from the public. The Resettlement Administration immediately sent food and emergency supplies to the camp. Unfortunately, the Thompson family had already left the habitable place by this time and received nothing from the generosity of the government. It should be noted that at that time no one knew the name of the woman depicted in the photograph. Only forty years after the publication of this photograph, in 1976, Thompson "revealed" herself by giving an interview to one of the national newspapers. 
"Retreat" The retreat of the US Marine Corps in 1950 due to inhuman frosts. During the Korean War, General MacArthur overestimated his capabilities, and was absolutely confident in the success of the campaign. So he considered before the counterattack of the Chinese troops, after which he uttered his famous phrase: “We are retreating! For we are moving in the wrong direction!” 
"Famine in Sudan" Photographer Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his work. The card depicts a Sudanese girl crouched with hunger. Soon she will die, and the big condor in the background is ready for it. The photo shocked the entire civilized world. The origin of the girl is unknown to anyone, including the photographer. He took a picture, chased away the predator and watched the child leave. Kevin Carter was a member of the Bang Bang Club, four intrepid photojournalists who travel around Africa in search of photo sensations. Kevin Carter was forgotten by the entire reading public for the fact that when he was asked if he took this girl to the food distribution point, he replied that he was only a messenger bringing news, and it was not his job to help. Two months after receiving the award, Carter committed suicide. Possibly haunted by horrific memories of what he saw in Sudan. "The Monster of Loch Ness" or "Photograph of a Surgeon", This photo is also called "Surgeon's Photo". This blurry photo, taken in April 1934, is known to the whole world. For 60 years, it fed the most incredible assumptions about a living fossil pangolin living today in the Scottish Loch Ness, gave rise to a lot of rumors and conjectures, initiated several underwater expeditions and gave rise to a whole tourism industry in a small Scottish town. This continued until 1994, when the adopted son of the author of the fraud - Christian Spurling - did not tell the public that his stepfather, Marmaduke Weatherell, hired by the London Daily Mail to search for a large animal, could not find him and decided to take this fake photo with the help of Christian's stepson and son Jen. Yen is the actual author of the photo. "Nessie" was designed on hastily and was supported on the surface with a toy submarine and a plank counterweight. In order to make the story look more believable, the scammers persuaded a local surgeon, Robert Kenneth Wilson, to identify himself as the author of the picture. 
"Rice Line" Between the winter of 1948 and the spring of 1949, Henry Cartier Bresson traveled with his camera to Beijing, Shanghai and other cities. This photo was taken in Nanjing. The photo shows a line of starving people for rice. "Gandhi and his spinning wheel". One of the most influential people of the 20th century, Gandhi, did not like to be photographed, but in 1946, Life staff member, Margaret Bork-White, was allowed to take a photo of him in front of a spinning wheel - a symbol of the struggle for Indian independence. Before the photographer was allowed to take part in the photo session, she herself had to learn how to use a spinning wheel - these were the requirements of Gandhi's entourage. After overcoming this obstacle, Margaret had two more. To begin with, it turned out that it was forbidden to speak with Gandhi - he just had a “day of silence”, which he traditionally spent without talking to anyone. And, since he hated bright light, Margaret was allowed to take only three shots (accompanied by three flashes). The problem was also the very humid atmosphere of India, which adversely affected the condition of the camera, so the first two photos were unsuccessful, but the third shot turned out. It was he who shaped the image of Gandhi for millions of people. The photo was the last lifetime portrait of Gandhi - two years later he was killed. "Dali Atomicus" Philippe Haltzman was the only photographer to have made a career out of shooting people…in a jump. He argued that in the jump, the subject involuntarily shows his real, inner essence. One cannot but agree with this statement, looking at a photograph of Salvador Dali called "Dal? Atomicus". 6 hours, 28 jumps, a full room of assistants throwing a bucket of water into the air and angry cats - this is how this photo was born. In the background of the photograph is Dali's unfinished surreal masterpiece Leda Atomica. Haltsman wanted to pour milk out of the bucket, not water, but in the post-war period this was too dismissive of the food product. Haltzman's photographs of celebrities in a jump have appeared on at least seven covers of Life magazine and have given rise to a new kind of portrait - without the obligatory hitherto static. "Einstein showing tongue" You may rightly ask yourself, "did this photo really change the world?" Einstein made a coup in nuclear physics and quantum mechanics, and this photo changed the attitude towards both Einstein and scientists in general. The fact is that the 72-year-old scientist was tired of the constant press harassment that pestered him on the Princeton campus. When he was asked for the hundred thousandth time to smile at the camera, instead of smiling, he presented Arthur Seiss with his tongue sticking out at the camera. This language is the language of genius, which is why photography instantly became a classic. Now Einstein will always be remembered and considered a great original - always! "The Body of Che Guevara" Thug? Sociopath? A beacon of socialism? Or, as the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre called him, "the most perfect man of our age"? Regardless of your point of view, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has long been the patron saint" of revolutionaries around the world. Without a doubt, he is a legendary man, and this status was assigned to him not by life, but by his own death. Dissatisfied with Che's efforts to propagate revolution among Bolivia's poor and oppressed, the national army (trained and equipped by US troops and the CIA) captured and executed Che Guevara in 1967. But before his body was buried in a secret grave, the assassins gathered around him, posing for staged photography. The military wanted to prove to the world that Che was dead, hoping that his political movement would die with him. Expecting accusations that the photo was faked, Che Guevara's prudent executioners amputated his hands and preserved them in formaldehyde. But by killing a man, the Bolivian officials unwittingly gave rise to a legend about him. The photograph that went around the world bore a striking resemblance to Renaissance images of Jesus taken from the cross. Che's face is eerily calm, and his killers preen in front of the camera, one of them points to a wound in the body of Che Guevara. Thanks to this photograph, Che Guevara will forever be remembered as a martyr who died for socialist ideas. "Airship Hindenburg" The explosion of the Hindenburg airship in 1937 is, of course, not the wreck of the Titanic or the Chernobyl tragedy of the 20th century. Of the 97 people on board, 62 miraculously survived. During landing at Lakeharst Airport, New Jersey, after a flight from Germany, the German zeppelin Hindenburg exploded. The shell of the airship was filled with hydrogen, and not safe inert helium, since the Americans at that time had already refused to sell this gas to a potential enemy: a new world war was imminent. The event was filmed by 22 photographers. After the incident, airships were no longer considered a safe and developed mode of transport. This photo recorded the end of the development of the airship. "Snake Valley" Many believe that the era of photography can be divided into two parts: before Ansel Adams and after Ansel Adams. In the “pre-Adomsian” era, photography was not considered at all as an independent art. Photos with the help of various manipulations were made similar to paintings. Adams, on the other hand, avoided any manipulation of the images with all his might, declaring photographic art "the poetry of reality." With his work, he proved the value of "pure photography". In an era of fairly compact portable cameras, he stubbornly clung to bulky equipment and old-fashioned large-format cameras. Adams showed Americans the beauty of their national nature. In 1936, he took a series of photographs and sent them to Washington to help save Kings Canyon in California. As a result, this area was declared a national park. "VE Day, Times Square, 1945" or "The Kiss" On August 14, 1945, the news of Japan's surrender heralded the end of World War II. A stormy celebration began on the streets of New York, but perhaps none of the inhabitants of the city felt freer at that moment than the military. Among happy people who gathered in Times Square that day included one of the most talented photojournalists of the 20th century, a German immigrant named Alfred Eisenstadt. Snapping pictures of the celebration with his camera, he spotted a sailor "walking down the street and grabbing every girl in his field of vision." He later explained that he didn't care if she was "grandma, strong, thin, old or young" - he didn't Of course, a photograph of a sailor imprinting a kiss on the lips of a venerable pensioner would never have appeared on the cover of Life magazine, but when a dashing military man danced and kissed an attractive nurse, and Eisenstadt took a picture, the image was circulated by newspapers all over the country. It goes without saying that the VE-Day photograph was not a depiction of two war-torn lovers meeting, but to this day it remains an enduring symbol of America at the end of a long struggle for peace. 
"The Boy with the Grenade" The boy with a toy grenade in his hand is a famous work of photographer Diane Arbus. The boy's name is Colin Wood, the son of the famous tennis player Sidney Wood. In his right hand, the boy squeezes a grenade, in his left hand is empty. Diane took a long time to select the shooting angle she needed, as a result, the guy could not stand it and shouted “Shoot already!”. In 2005, the photo was sold for $408,000. 
"Trunks" Street punks threatening the photographer with a gun. Yes, the child is only 11 years old, and the gun in his hands is a toy. He's just playing his game. But if you look closely, you will not see any game in his eyes. 
"Picasso" Eight pieces of xl:) were required in order to ideally display the dissimilarity of views on the world of Pablo Picasso and other people. The artist was delighted with this photo. “Look at the bread! Only four fingers! That's why I decided to call this photo "Picasso",” Picasso told his friend, photographer Duwanuoshi. 
"People and Pictures" Robert Doisneau (Robert Doisneo) did not follow the traditions of artistic photography of his time. Using the reportage technique of shooting, he looked for the unusual in the ordinary, exciting in the everyday. Every day, a nude painting was displayed in the window of a popular shop and the reaction of passers-by was photographed. Best photos made by Robert Doisneo were included in the series “People and Pictures”. So, perhaps, a “hidden camera” appeared.
