Legendary photographers. Category: Interesting

I have long been planning to post life and success stories of the most famous photographers in the past in my feed. Actually, I wanted to start maintaining my Topics with this very topic.
IN Lately I often think that everything we do (this means both our professional activities and our hobbies) is some kind of PSP, which is unlikely to ever change anything in the lives of current and future generations. Those. the question is WHAT after all is SELF-REALIZATION(including in photography?!)

Elliott Erwitt- a legend of world photography, became famous as the most talented author of black and white photographs. His works are lively, emotional, with a sense of humor and deep meaning, captivated audiences in many countries. The uniqueness of the photographer’s technique lies in the ability to see irony in the world around him. He did not like staged shots, did not use retouching and worked only with film cameras. Everything that Ervit has ever filmed is genuine reality, through the eyes of an optimist.

“I want the images to be emotional. There is little else that interests me in photography."Elliott Erwitt

Arnold Newman (Arnold Newman) devoted nearly seventy years of his life to photography, not stopping working almost until his death: “August and I (Newman speaks of his wife - A.V.) are busier and more active than ever,” the photographer said in 2002, “Today I’m working again on new ideas, books, travel - it will never end and thank God.” He was wrong about this - on June 6, 2006 he died - sudden cardiac arrest. As if anticipating this diagnosis, he once said: “We don’t take photographs with cameras. We make them with our hearts."

« I think today's generation has one problem. It is so carried away by objectivity that it forgets about photography itself. Forgets to create images like Cartier-Bresson or Salgado - two of the greatest 35mm photographers who ever lived. They can use any theme to create a photograph, no matter what it is. They truly create photography that you enjoy, a lot of pleasure from. And now, every time it's the same thing: two people in bed, someone with a needle in their arm or something like that, Lifestyles or nightclubs. You look at these and after a week you begin to forget, after two weeks you can’t remember a single one. But a photograph can then be considered interesting when it sinks into our consciousness» Arnold Newman

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Alfred Stieglitz (Alfred Stieglitz) "almost single-handedly pushed his country into the world of 20th-century art." It was Stieglitz who became the first photographer whose works were awarded museum status. From the very beginning of his career as a photographer, Stieglitz faced disdain for photography from the artistic elite: “The artists to whom I showed my early photographs said they were jealous of me; that my photographs are better than their paintings, but, unfortunately, photography is not art. “I couldn’t understand how you can simultaneously admire a work and reject it as not made by hands, how you can put your own works higher only on the basis that they are made by hand,” Stieglitz was indignant. He could not come to terms with this state of affairs: “Then I began to fight... for the recognition of photography as a new means of self-expression, so that it would have equal rights with any other forms of artistic creativity.”

« I would like to draw your attention to the most popular misconception about photography - the term “professional” is used for photos that are generally considered successful, the term “amateur” is used for unsuccessful ones. But almost all great photographs are made - and always have been taken - by those who pursued photography in the name of love - and certainly not in the name of profit. The term “amateur” precisely implies a person working in the name of love, so the fallacy of the generally accepted classification is obvious.”Alfred Stieglitz

It is perhaps difficult to find in the history of world photography a personality more controversial, tragic, and so unlike anyone else than Diane Arbus. She is idolized and cursed, some imitate her, others try with all their might to avoid it. Some can spend hours looking at her photographs, others try to quickly close the album. One thing is obvious - the work of Diane Arbus leaves few people indifferent. There was nothing insignificant or trivial about her life, her photographs, her death.

Extraordinary talent Yousuf Karsh as a portrait photographer, he did his job: he was - and remains - one of the most famous photographers of all times. His books sell in huge numbers, exhibitions of his photographs are held all over the world, and his works are included in the permanent collections of leading museums. Karsh had a great influence on many portrait photographers, especially in the 1940s and 1950s. Some critics argue that he often idealizes the character, imposes his philosophy on the model, and talks more about himself than about the person being portrayed. However, no one denies that his portraits were made with extraordinary skill and inner world- model or photographer - has a captivating attention on the viewer. He received many awards, prizes, honorary titles, and in 2000 the Guinness Book of Records named Yusuf Karsh the most outstanding master of portrait photography.

« If, by looking at my portraits, you learn something more significant about the people depicted in them, if they help you sort out your feelings about someone whose work has left an imprint on your brain - if you look at the photograph and say: “ Yes, that’s him” and at the same time you learn something new about the person - that means this is a really successful portrait» Yusuf Karsh

Man Ray Since the beginning of his photography career, he has constantly experimented with new technical techniques. In 1922, he rediscovered the method of creating photographic images without a camera. Another discovery of the photographer, also known long before him, but practically not used, was solarization - an interesting effect that is obtained by re-exposing a negative. He turned solarization into an artistic technique, as a result of which ordinary items, faces, body parts were transformed into fantastic and mysterious images.

“There will always be people who look only at the technique of execution - their main question is “how”, while others, more inquisitive, are interested in “why”. For me personally, an inspiring idea has always meant more than other information."Man Ray

Steve McCurry (Steve McCurry) has the amazing ability to always (at least, much more often than follows from the theory of probability) be in the right place at the right time. He is surprisingly lucky - although it should be remembered that luck for a photojournalist usually comes from the misfortunes of other people or even entire nations. A more than prestigious education did little to help Steve in the profession of a photojournalist - he worked his way to the heights of his craft through trial and error, trying to learn as much as possible from his predecessors.

“The most important thing is to be extremely attentive to the person, serious and consistent in your intentions, then the picture will be the most sincere. I really like watching people. It seems to me that a person's face can sometimes tell a lot. Each of my photographs is not just an episode from life, it is its quintessence, its whole story.”Steve McCurry

“A Mixture of Algebra with Harmony” made Gjon Mili one of the most famous photographers in America. He showed the world the beauty of frozen motion or a series of moments frozen in one frame. It is unknown when and where he became interested in photography, but in the late 1930s his photographs began to appear in the illustrated magazine Life - in those years both the magazine and the photographer were just beginning their path to fame. In addition to photography, Mili was interested in cinema: in 1945, his film “Jammin’ the Blues” about famous musicians of the 1930-1940s was nominated for an Academy Award.

“Time really can be stopped”Gyen Miles

Andre Kertész known as the founder of surrealism in photography. His unconventional angles, for that time, and his unwillingness to reconsider the position in the style of his works greatly prevented him from achieving wide recognition at the beginning of his career. But he was recognized during his lifetime and is still considered one of the outstanding photographers who stood at the origins of photojournalism, if not photography in general. " We all owe him a lot» - Cartier-Bresson about Andre Kertésche.

« I don't adjust or calculate, I watch a scene and know that there is perfection in it, even if I have to move away to get it. the right light. My work is dominated by the moment. I shoot the way I feel. Everyone can look, but not everyone can see. » Andre Kertész

It's hard to find a celebrity who hasn't posed Richard Avedon. His models include the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Nastassja Kinski, Audrey Hepburn and many other stars. Very often, Avedon manages to capture a celebrity in an unusual form or mood, thereby revealing a different side to her and forcing her to look at a person’s life differently. Avedon's style is easy to recognize by black and white, blinding white background, large portraits. In portraits, he manages to turn people into “symbols of themselves.”

Peter Lindbergh- one of the most respected and copied photographers. He can be called a "poet of glamor." Since 1978, when Stern Magazine published his first fashion photographs, no international fashion publication has been without his photographs. Lindbergh's first book, Ten Women, a black-and-white portfolio of the ten best models of the time, was published in 1996 and sold more than 100,000 copies. The second, Peter Lindbergh: Images of Women, a collection of the photographer's work from the mid-80s until the mid-90s, published in 1997.

Since ancient times, the Czech Republic has been a country of mysticism and magic, the home of alchemists and artists; they weaved spells and were creators of fantastic worlds of imagination. World famous Czech photographer Jan Saudek not an exception. Over the course of four decades, Saudek created a parallel Universe - the Magic Theater of Dreams.

IN modern world photography is a popular and very widespread branch of art, which continues to actively develop and delight with new discoveries and creations. It seems like, why is there so much enthusiasm around ordinary photography? Can it be compared with a painting into which the artist invests a large amount of time, soul and effort?

But not everything is so simple, talented photographic works can hardly be called “simple”; in order for the frame to come out truly mesmerizing, the master must be a true connoisseur of the moment, be able to catch beauty where to an ordinary person it remains invisible, and then present it so that it becomes accessible to the masses. Isn't this art?

Today we will talk about the most talented and famous fashion photographers who managed to turn the usual world of photography upside down, introduce something new, and also gain recognition from the whole world.

These people collaborate with the most famous glossy publications in the world, their hands created the most famous advertising campaigns leading companies of our time, the most famous and wealthy people on the planet strive to get to their shoots. Isn't this enough to arouse everyone's admiration?

1. Annie Leibnovitz

Our top 10 opens with one of the highest paid and sought-after professionals in her field, Annie Leibovitz. Each of her works is a recognized work of art that evokes admiration even among the most ignorant viewers.

Although Annie is a master of portrait photography, she excels in many other genres. Music stars, famous actors, models, as well as members of her family visited her lens, and everyone who was there became a part of something perfect and extraordinary.

Among them are Queen Elizabeth II, Michael Jackson, George Clooney, Uma Thurman, Natalia Vodianova, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp and many others.

1. Patrick Demarchelier

One of the most famous and sought-after French photographers, who began shooting back in the 80s and quickly managed to achieve success. Very soon his photographs began to appear in Glamor, Elle, and a little later in Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

Being in his lens is the dream of any model, and iconic fashion houses from all over the world fought for the right to get a meter to shoot the next advertising campaign. At one time he was the personal photographer of Princess Diana, photographed the very young Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and more than once worked with Madonna, Scarlett Johansson and other stars of modern Hollywood.

1. Mario Testino

One of the most famous British photographers, winner of many prestigious awards. An interesting fact is that Mario became a photographer, basically, by accident, his family was far from the world of art, and the path that he had to go through to achieve success turned out to be very thorny. But it was worth it!

Today, Testino's work can be found in almost every glossy publication, he has worked with most of the most famous and popular models, became Kate Moss's favorite photographer, and is also known for his magnificent photographs of the royal family.

1. Peter Lindbergh

Another worldwide celebrity, winner of many awards and simply a talented person. Peter, to a greater extent, became famous as a master of black and white photography, an opponent of the worldwide craze for Photoshop, and therefore prefers to look for perfection in the imperfect.

1. Steven Meisel

Considered one of the most popular fashion photographers, he is known for his unique photo shoots for Vogue magazine, as well as a series of very provocative photographs for Madonna’s book. His works cause a very wide resonance in the public world, however, most of his works continue to be published in fashion publications.

1. Ellen von Unwerth

A popular German photographer, known for her passion for erotic and staged subjects. Particular success came to Ellen after shooting Claudia Schiffer for Guess. After this, offers poured in, and her work constantly appears in such publications as Vanity Fair, The Face, Vogue and many others.

1. Paolo Roversi

In the fashion world he is known as one of the most mysterious and unattainable personalities. Few people know this photographer by sight, but many know his signature style, and his work is strikingly different from the typical magazine “stamping”.

His extraordinary works, captured using long exposures, are some of the most graceful and magnificent images to be created in the last century.

1. Tim Walker

A British photographer who gained his popularity thanks to the fabulous style in which most of his works were created: the directions of surrealism and rococo. As the author himself says, he is often inspired by literary heroes and fairy-tale characters, which is probably why each of his photographs is a whole story.

It is also noteworthy that Walker does not like Photoshop, and therefore tries to use real props and lighting to create his unique works.

1. Mert and Marcus

One of the most famous and best photo duos, whose works are always recognizable and in demand no less than the works of their older colleagues. Known for their bright, shocking and often provocative photographs, all the most beautiful divas of our planet have appeared in their lenses: Kate Moss, Jennifer Lopez, Gisele Bundchen, Natalia Vodianova and many others.

1. Inez and Vinoodh

Another talented photo duo, whose members have been collaborators and have been creating masterpieces for 30 years. Like most of the above colleagues, they collaborate with the most fashionable glossy publications, shoot advertising campaigns for Isabel Marant and YSL, and are also one of Lady Gaga’s favorite photographers.

Thousands of photographers work around the world, capturing events, places, people and animals every day, producing hundreds of thousands of photographs. But only a few become globally known, are replicated, and are used in modern culture and are called photo icons. And each of these photographs has its own story...

The photograph 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 explosion of the ship La Coubre, its author, Alberto Korda, then the official photographer of Fidel Castro, said that at that moment he was shocked by the expression on the face of 31-year-old Che, in which "absolute inflexibility", anger and pain were written simultaneously. At the same time, Che appeared in the photographer’s viewfinder only for a couple of seconds after Fidel’s heated speech (in which the famous words “Patria O Muerte” were used for the first time), and then retreated into the shadows again. The photograph was rejected by the editor of Revolution magazine, which upset Corda, who was convinced of the power of the work. He cropped the photo, printed it in several copies, hung one on his wall at home, and gave the rest to friends. Since this all started. By the way, Korda never asked for royalties for the use and reproduction of this photograph, but was against the commercial use of Che’s image. Especially in advertising those products that the Comandante would never support. Alberto sued, for example, the agencies Lowe Lintas and Rex Features when they began selling Smirnoff vodka using this photo. He won $50,000, which he immediately donated to Cuban medicine.

On the day this photo was taken, Einstein turned 72 years old. On March 14, 1951, almost all publications photographed him, and he was very tired and irritated. UPI photographer Arthur Sasse was one of the latter, and he tried hard to make Einstein smile. But the greatest mind of the twentieth century stuck out his tongue at the photographer instead. In 2009, the original photograph of the mischievous Einstein was sold at auction for $74,324.

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 for a shoot, he was not going to cheat on himself. Yusuf first delicately placed an ashtray in front of the Prime Minister, but he ignored it, and the photographer had to say “excuse me, sir” and take Churchill’s cigar 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.

National Geographic magazine in 1984 set out to trace the genetic path of green eyes, which began in the time of Genghis Khan. During the research and collection of material for the Green Eyes project, photographer Steve McCurry photographed an Afghan girl, who, as it turned out 17 years later, was named Sharbat Gula. The photograph of the wide-eyed, frightened refugee beauty made the cover of National Geographic in 1985 and over time became a world-famous symbol of the Afghan conflict and the suffering of refugees around the world. Now the photograph is even called the “Afghan Mona Lisa.” By the time the National Geographic team finally found Sharbat, she was already about thirty, she had returned to her native Afghanistan and had never seen this photograph or known about her worldwide fame until the moment she met NG.

Photo of Robert Capa taken September 5, 1936 for a long time was a symbol of the bloody and ruthless Spanish civil war. It depicts an armed militiaman in civilian clothes falling backwards after being shot by an enemy that was fatal to him. The photograph is very emotional, dramatic, capturing a terrible moment - so it instantly gained popularity, but at the same time, there were doubts among part of society. And now almost no one doubts that the iconic shot was staged. Firstly, it was not made at the site of the fighting, but several kilometers away from it. And secondly, Federico Borrell García, who tragically died in the photograph in an open field and was later identified, was actually shot dead while trying to hide behind a tree.

But this photo is not staged, and for more than 40 years people have been watching the endless execution of the Viet Cong Nguyen Van Lem by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. Photographer Eddie Adams recorded the events of thirteen wars, but his most famous photograph remains this one, taken on February 1, 1968. For which he later had to apologize. The picture instantly spread across newspapers and news agencies, everyone in the States was talking about it, many with reproach and indignation - what was on it was too scary. Eddie insisted that this was not a planned shot, that it was something of a reflex, and that he did not even know what he had shot until he developed the film. And having shown it, I realized that it was impossible to hush it up. But he subsequently wrote in Time: “The general killed the Viet Cong, I killed the general with my camera. Photographs are still the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs lie, even without such intentions. They are only half true. The photo didn't say, “What would you have done if you were that general at that time and place on that hot day when you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew up one, two, or three Americans?” While General Nguyen was still alive, Adams apologized to him and his family for the irreparable damage the photo had caused to the general's honor.

Another world-famous photograph of the Vietnam War is not nearly as controversial as the previous one. This is a symbol of the horror and suffering of innocent people who fall into the hands of the military. The image, taken by South Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut, shows people fleeing napalm being rained down by South Vietnamese forces on a village. The logical center of the composition is a naked girl screaming in horror and pain. This is nine-year-old Kim Phuc, she has terrible third-degree burns on her back and the back of her legs, and she is trying to escape. After taking the photo, Nick picked up the girl and took her and the other wounded children to the hospital. Doctors were sure that she would not survive, but after 14 months in the hospital and 17 operations, Kim Phuc became practically healthy. The photographer constantly visited her both in the hospital and after her discharge, until he left Saigon three years later. Kim is still alive, she dedicated her life to medicine and helping child victims of war. She sometimes gives interviews and appears on talk shows: “Napalm is the worst pain you can imagine. Water boils at 100 degrees, and the temperature of napalm is from 800 to 1200. Forgiveness freed me from hatred. I still have a lot of scars on my body and am in a lot of pain almost constantly, but my heart is clear. Napalm is strong, but faith, forgiveness and love are much stronger. We wouldn't have wars at all if everyone could understand how to live with true love, hope and forgiveness. If that little girl in the photo could do it, ask yourself, can you too?”

Photography is a symbol of the confrontation between the power of weapons and the power of the human spirit. A single man stood in front of a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square in Beijing during the June 1989 riots. In his hands he had two ordinary plastic bags, which he shook at the tanks when they stopped. The first tank tried to go around the man, but he again stood in his way. After several unsuccessful attempts to go around it, the tanks turned off their engines, and the commander of the first spoke with the persistent peacekeeper. Then he tried to go around him again, and the man again stood in front of the tank. Four photographers captured the moment, but the world-famous photo was taken by Jeff Widener, long banned in China. The man was never identified, but he was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most important people twentieth century.

This shocking photo not only shows the suffering of children in Sudan during the 1993 famine, but also tells the story of the moral anguish of the photographer who took the photo. Kevin Carter received a Pulitzer Prize for this photograph, and two months later he released exhaust fumes from his car into the cabin. A little exhausted girl, crawling towards the humanitarian aid camp, stopped to rest, and at that time a hungry vulture swooped into the clearing and walked in circles, waiting for the child to die. Kevin waited 20 minutes before the shot was good enough for him. And only then did he drive away the vulture, and the girl crawled on. Carter was hit with a wave of criticism and the most prestigious journalistic award. But he could not live with various financial problems, with what he saw in Sudan, and with what he himself participated in. In July 1994, he committed suicide.

The most famous kiss in the world was filmed by Albert Eisenstadt in Times Square during the celebration of Victory over Japan Day on August 14, 1945. During the crowded, noisy festivities, Eisenstadt did not have time to ask the names of the subjects in the photograph, and therefore they remained unknown for a long time. Only in 1980 was it 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. This is what Eisenstadt said about the moment of filming: “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, it didn’t matter to him. I ran in front of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder, but I didn't like any of the photos. Then suddenly I saw him grab someone in white. I turned around and filmed the moment when the sailor kissed the nurse. If she had been wearing dark clothes, I would never have photographed them. As if the sailor were in a white uniform. I took 4 photos in a few seconds, but only one satisfied me.”

All photographs shown below are winners of World Press photo competitions over the years.

“The most famous photograph that no one has seen,” is what Associated Press photographer Richard Drew calls his photograph of one of the victims of the World War II. shopping center, who jumped out of the window towards own death 11 September. “On that day, which, more than any other day in history, was captured on cameras and film,” Tom Junod later wrote in Esquire, “the only taboo, by common consent, was the pictures of people jumping out of windows.” Five years later, Richard Drew's Falling Man remains a terrible artifact of the day that should have changed everything, but didn't.

A photograph that showed the face of the Great Depression. Thanks to legendary photographer Dorothea Lange, for many years Florence Owen Thompson was literally the personification of the Great Depression. Lange took the photo while visiting a vegetable picker camp in California in February 1936, wanting to show the world the resilience of a proud nation in difficult times. Today, similar photographs (as well as videos) can be taken using the xiaomi yi action camera, but in those days they used more primitive cameras. Dorothea's life story turned out to be as attractive as her portrait. At 32, she was already a mother of seven children and a widow (her husband died of tuberculosis). Finding themselves practically penniless in a labor camp for displaced people, her family ate poultry meat that the children managed to shoot and vegetables from the farm—the same way the other 2,500 camp workers lived. The publication of the photo had the effect of a bomb exploding. Thompson's story, which appeared on the covers of the most respected publications, caused an immediate response from the public. The IDP Administration immediately sent food and basic necessities to the camp. Unfortunately, by this time the Thompson family had already left their home and received nothing from the government’s generosity. 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 central newspapers.

Stanley Forman/Boston Herald, USA. July 22, 1975, Boston. A girl and a woman fall trying to escape a fire.

Photographer Nick Yut took a photo of a Vietnamese girl running away from a napalm explosion. It was this photo that made the whole world think about the Vietnam War. The photo of 9-year-old girl Kim Phuc on June 8, 1972 has gone down in history forever. Kim first saw this photo 14 months later in a hospital in Saigon, where she was being treated for strange burns. Kim still remembers running from her siblings on the day of the bombing and cannot forget the sound of the bombs falling. A soldier tried to help and poured water on her, not realizing that this would make the burns even worse. Photographer Nick South helped the girl and took her to the hospital. At first, the photographer doubted whether to publish a photo of a naked girl, but then decided that the world should see this photo. Later the photo was called the best photo of the 20th century. Nick Yut tried to protect Kim from becoming too popular, but in 1982, while she was studying at medical school, the Vietnamese government found her, and since then Kim's image has been used in propaganda chains. “I was under constant control. I wanted to die, this Photo haunted me,” says Kim. Later there was immigration to Cuba, where she was able to continue her education. There she met her future husband. Together they moved to Canada. Many years later, she finally realized that she could not escape from this photograph, and decided to use it and her fame to fight for peace.

Fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company building, 1911 The American Triangle Shirtwaist Company became famous in the United States thanks to its love for the cheap labor of young immigrant women in its factories. Since there was still a risk that such personnel would steal, during working hours the doors of the workshops were closed until the end of the shift. It was this “tradition” that caused the tragedy that occurred on March 25, 1911, when a fire broke out on the ninth floor of a factory building in New York. At first, witnesses to the fire thought that the workers were saving the most expensive fabrics from the fire, but, as it turned out, people locked in the burning workshop themselves jumped out of the windows. After this, a nationwide campaign aimed at improving occupational safety began in the United States.

Biafra, 1969 When the Igbo tribe declared themselves independent from Nigeria in 1967, Nigeria imposed a blockade on their former eastern region Nigeria - the newly proclaimed Republic of Biafra. The war between Nigeria and Biafra lasted 3 years. More than a million people died during this war, mainly from starvation. War photographer Don McCullin, who took this photograph, commented on his visit to the camp where 900 starving children were being held: “I don’t want to photograph soldiers on the battlefield anymore.”

Mustafa Bozdeinir/Hurriyet Gazetesi, Türkiye. October 30, 1983. Koyunoren, eastern Türkiye. Kezban Ozer found her five children dead after a devastating earthquake.

James Nachtwey/Magnum Photos/USA for Liberation, USA/France. November 1992. Bardera, Somalia. A mother lifts the body of her child, who has died of hunger, to take him to the grave.

Hector Rondon Lovera/Diario La Republica, Venezuela. June 4, 1962, Puerto Cabello naval base. A sniper fatally wounded a soldier who is now holding on to priest Luis Padillo.

Yasushi Nagao/Mainichi Shimbun, Japan. October 12, 1960, Tokyo. A right-wing student kills the chairman of the Socialist Party, Inejiro Asanuma.

Helmut Pirath, Germany. 1956, eastern Germany. The daughter meets a German prisoner of World War II, who was released by the USSR.

Mike Wells, UK. April 1980. Karamoja region, Uganda. A terribly hungry boy and a missionary.

DEATH OF GOEBBELS. During the capture of Berlin Soviet troops The main ideologist of fascism, Joseph Goebbels, took poison, having first poisoned his family - his wife and six children. The corpses, according to his dying order, were burned. Here is a photograph showing the corpse of a criminal. The photo was taken in the Imperial Chancellery building on May 2, 1945 by Major Vasily Krupennikov. On the back of the photo, Vasily wrote: “We covered Goebbels’s sensitive spot with a handkerchief, it was very unpleasant to look at it...”

All the pain is in just one look... (Henry Cartier Bresson) The photo was taken in 1948-1949, when the author traveled to China. The photo shows a hungry boy standing for a long time in an endless line for rice.

The moments when the assassin John F. Kennedy was shot (Robert H. Jackson) The author filmed Oswald, the man who at one time took the life of the President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy. Everywhere there were indignant people who demanded the death penalty for the criminal. The photographer pressed the shutter and took another photo. Just as the flash was charging for the next shot, the killer was shot. The shot was fatal for Oswald.

The event depicted in the photograph cannot be called a worldwide tragedy (out of 97 people, 35 died), but everyone considers this photograph to be the one that marked the beginning of the oblivion of airships - the frame captured the crash of the Hindenburg airship alone famous manufacturer. A dozen photographers from various publications had contracts for photography. From that moment on, the airship was no longer considered the safest mode of transport in the world - soon its era was over.

Jean-Marc Bouju/AP. France. March 31, 2003. An Najaf, Iraq. A man tries to alleviate the difficult conditions for his son in a prison for prisoners of war.

The photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head not only won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also changed the way Americans think about what happened in Vietnam. Despite the obviousness of the image, in fact the photograph is not as clear as it seemed to ordinary Americans, filled with sympathy for the executed man. 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 and killed by him and his henchmen. General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, pictured on the left, was haunted his whole life by his past: 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 army general all his life.

By the early summer of 1994, Kevin Carter (1960-1994) was at the height of his fame. He had just won the Pulitzer Prize, and job offers from famous magazines were pouring in one after another. “Everyone congratulates me,” he wrote to his parents, “I can’t wait to meet you and show you my trophy. This is the highest recognition of my work, which I did not dare to even dream of." Kevin Carter received the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph "Famine in Sudan", taken in the early spring of 1993. On this day, Carter specially flew to Sudan to film scenes of famine in a small village. Tired of photographing people who had died of hunger, he left the village into a field overgrown with small bushes and suddenly heard a quiet cry. Looking around, he saw a little girl lying on the ground, apparently dying of hunger. He wanted to take a photo of her, but suddenly a vulture landed a few steps away. Very carefully, trying not to spook the bird, Kevin chose the best position and took the photo. After that, he waited another twenty minutes, hoping that the bird would spread its wings and give him the opportunity to get a better shot. But the damned bird did not move and, in the end, he spat and drove it away. Meanwhile, the girl apparently gained strength and walked - or rather crawled - further. And Kevin sat down near the tree and cried. He suddenly had a terrible desire to hug his daughter.

Malcolm Brown, a 30-year-old Associated Press photographer from New York, received a telephone call asking him to be at a certain intersection in Saigon the next morning because... something very important is about to happen. He arrived there with a reporter from the New York Times, and soon a car pulled up and several Buddhist monks got out. Among them is Thich Ouang Due, who sat in the lotus position with a box of matches in his hands, while the others began to pour gasoline on him. Thich Quang Due struck a match and turned into a living torch. Unlike the crying crowd that saw him burn, he did not make a sound or move. Thich Quang Duo wrote a letter to the then head of the Vietnamese government asking him to stop the repression of Buddhists, stop detaining monks and give them the right to practice and spread their religion, but received no response.

A 12-year-old Afghan girl is a famous photograph taken by Steve McCurry in a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Soviet helicopters destroyed the village of a young refugee, her entire family died, and... Before getting to the camp, the girl traveled for two weeks in the mountains. After its publication in June 1985, this photograph became a National Geographic icon. Since then, this image has been used everywhere - from tattoos to rugs, which turned the photograph into one of the most replicated photos in the world.

The photograph was taken on September 29, 1932, on the 69th floor during the final months of construction of Rockefeller Center.

The photograph showing the hoisting of the Victory Banner over the Reichstag spread throughout the world. Evgeny Khaldey, 1945.

Death of a Nazi functionary and his family. Vienna, 1945 Evgeniy Khaldei: “I went to the park near the parliament building to film the passing columns of soldiers. And I saw this picture. On a bench sat a woman, killed with two shots - in the head and neck, next to her were a dead teenager of about fifteen and girl. A little further away lay the corpse of the father of the family. He had a gold NSDAP badge on his lapel, and a revolver lay nearby (...) A watchman from the parliament building ran up: “He did this, not Russian soldiers. Came at 6 am. I saw him and his family from the basement window. There's not a soul on the street. He moved the benches together, ordered the woman to sit down, and ordered the children to do the same. I didn't understand what he was going to do. And then he shot the mother and son. The girl resisted, then he laid her on a bench and also shot her. He stepped aside, looked at the result and shot himself."

Kyoichi Sawada/United Press International, Japan. February 24, 1966. Tan Binh, southern Vietnam. American soldiers drag the body of a Viet Cong (South Vietnamese rebel) soldier on a leash.

"Little Grownups"... Three American girls gossip in one of the alleys of Sevilla in Spain. For a long time, a postcard with this image was the most popular in the United States.

The inimitable Marilyn Monroe Photography needs no comment! It depicts one of the best actresses of all years - Marilyn Monroe during her break. The girl was distracted by someone and, by pure chance, she took her gaze away from the lens. However, this gave the picture extraordinary mystery and true charm.

Republican soldier Federico Borel García is depicted facing death. The photo caused a huge shock in society. The situation is absolutely unique. During the entire attack, the photographer took only one photo, and he took it at random, without looking through the viewfinder, he did not look towards the “model” at all. And this is one of the best, one of his most famous photographs. It was thanks to this photograph that already in 1938 newspapers called 25-year-old Robert Capa “The Greatest War Photographer in the World.”

White and Colored, photograph by Elliott Erwitt, 1950.

Douglas Martin/AP. USA. September 4, 1956—Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students, goes to college.

Anonymous/New York Times. September 11, 1973, Santiago, Chile. Democratically elected President Salvador Alende seconds before his death during a military coup at the presidential palace.

Kyoichi Sawada/United Press International, Japan-September 1965, Binh Dinh, southern Vietnam. A mother and children cross a river to escape American aerial bombardment.

The photo depicts a terrible tragedy - the November 13, 1985 eruption of the Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz. A muddy slurry from streams of mud and earth absorbed all living things beneath it. Over 23 thousand people died in those days. A girl, Omaira Sanchaz, was captured on camera a few hours before her death. She was unable to get out of the mud mess because her legs were pinned by a huge concrete slab. The rescuers did everything in their power. The girl behaved courageously, encouraging everyone around her. In a terrible trap, hoping for salvation, she spent three long days. On the fourth, she began hallucinating and died from contracted viruses.

Take a closer look at this photo. This is one of the most remarkable photographs ever taken. The baby's tiny hand reached out from the mother's womb to squeeze the surgeon's finger. By the way, the child is 21 weeks from conception, the age when he can still be legally aborted. The tiny hand in the photo belongs to a baby who was due to be born on December 28 last year. The photo was taken during an operation in America. The child is literally grasping for life. It is therefore one of the most remarkable photographs in medicine and a record of one of the most extraordinary operations in the world. It shows a 21-week-old fetus in the womb, just before spinal surgery was required to save the baby from serious brain damage. The operation was performed through a tiny incision in the mother's wall and this is the youngest patient. At this stage, the mother may choose to have an abortion. Little Samuel's mum said they "cried for days" when they saw the photo. She said: "This picture reminds us that my pregnancy is not a disease or a physical disability, it is a little person." Samuel was born completely healthy, the operation was a 100% success. The doctor's name was Joseph Bruner. When he finished the operation, he said only one thing: “Beauty!” As an addition: in some Western countries it is allowed to have an abortion up to 28 weeks / in France up to 22 weeks, in the Russian Federation up to 12 weeks.

The first X-ray, 1896 On January 13, 1896, Roentgen informed Emperor Wilhelm II of his achievement. And already on January 23 in Würzburg (Germany), where the famous laboratory of V. K. Roentgen was located, at a meeting of the Scientific Society of Medical Physicists, the scientist publicly took an X-ray of the hand of one of the present members of the society - anatomist Professor Kolliker.

In late April 2004, the CBS program 60 Minutes II aired a story about the torture and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison by the group. American soldiers. The story featured photographs that were published in The New Yorker magazine a few days later. This became the biggest scandal surrounding the American presence in Iraq.

The photograph that brought war into every home. One of the first war photojournalists, Matthew Brady, was known as the creator of daguerreotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. Brady had it all: career, money, own business. And all this (as well as own life) he decided to take a risk by 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 sending assistants to the front line. Over the course of several years of war, Brady and his team took more than 7,000 photographs. This is quite an impressive figure, especially considering that taking a single photo required equipment and chemicals housed inside a covered wagon pulled by several horses. Not very similar to the usual digital point-and-shoot cameras? The photographs that seemed so at home on the battlefield had a very heavy aura. However, it was thanks to them that ordinary Americans were for the first time able to see the bitter and harsh military reality, not veiled by jingoistic slogans.

By: Charles Moore/Black Star, 1963 Birmingham, Alaska, has long been known as a hotbed of conflict between its large African-American population and its white majority. The photo shows one of the episodes of the suppression of a peaceful demonstration for the rights of blacks, which was organized by Martin Luther King. The police use arrests, mounted units and shooting from guns, and poison people with dogs.

Poland - girl Teresa, who grew up in a concentration camp, draws a "house" on the board. 1948. © David Seymour

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995), a photographer working for Life magazine, walked around the square photographing people kissing. He later recalled that he noticed a sailor who “rushed around the square and kissed indiscriminately all the women in a row: young and old, fat and thin. I watched, but there was no desire to take a photo. Suddenly he grabbed something white. I barely had time to raise the camera and take a photo of him kissing the nurse.” For millions of Americans, this photograph, which Eisenstadt called " Unconditional surrender", became a symbol of the end of the Second World War.

Everyone has seen these pictures: a selection of the most famous and most impressive photographs that have repeatedly flown around the world.
“The most famous photograph that no one has seen,” is what Associated Press photographer Richard Drew calls his photograph of one of the World Trade Center victims who jumped from a window to his death on September 11

Malcolm Brown, a 30-year-old photographer from New York, following an anonymous tip, filmed the self-immolation of the Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc, which became a sign of protest against the repression of Buddhists.

The 21-week fetus, which was due to be born last December, was in the womb before spinal surgery began. At this age, the child can still be legally aborted.

The death of the Al-Dura boy, filmed by a television station reporter as he is shot by Israeli soldiers while in the arms of his father.

Photographer Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph "Famine in Sudan," taken in early spring 1993. On this day, Carter specially flew to Sudan to film scenes of famine in a small village.

Jewish settler confronts Israeli police as they enforce the decision Supreme Court on the dismantling of 9 houses at the outpost of the Amona settlement, West Bank, February 1, 2006.

A 12-year-old Afghan girl is a famous photograph taken by Steve McCurry in a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

July 22, 1975, Boston. A girl and a woman fall trying to escape a fire. Photo by Stanley Forman/Boston Herald, USA.

"Unknown Rebel" in Tiananmen Square. In this famous photograph, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widene, shows a protester who managed to single-handedly hold off a tank column for half an hour.

The girl Teresa, who grew up in a concentration camp, draws a "house" on the board. 1948, Poland. Author - David Seymour.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States. According to the official version, responsibility for these attacks lies with the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda.

Frozen Niagara Falls. Photo from 1911.

April 1980, UK. Karamoja region, Uganda. Hungry boy and missionary. Photo by Mike Wells.

White and Colored, photograph by Elliott Erwitt, 1950.

Young Lebanese men drive through a devastated area of ​​Beirut on August 15, 2006. Photo by Spencer Platt.

The photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head not only won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also changed the way Americans think about what happened in Vietnam.

Lynching, 1930. This image was taken as a mob of 10,000 whites hanged two black men for raping a white woman and murdering her boyfriend. Author: Lawrence Beitler.

At the end of April 2004, the CBS program 60 Minutes II aired a story about the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison by a group of American soldiers. This became the biggest scandal surrounding the American presence in Iraq.

Burial of an unknown child. On December 3, 1984, the Indian city of Bhopal suffered from the largest man-made disaster in human history: a giant toxic cloud released into the atmosphere by an American pesticide plant killed more than 18 thousand people.

Photographer and scientist Lennart Nilsson gained international fame in 1965 when LIFE magazine published 16 pages of photographs of a human embryo.

Photo of the Loch Ness monster, 1934. Author: Ian Wetherell.

Riveters. The photo was taken on September 29, 1932, on the 69th floor of Rockefeller Center during the final months of construction.

Surgeon Jay Vacanti from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1997 managed to grow a human ear on the back of a mouse using cartilage cells.

Freezing rain can form a thick layer of ice on any object, even destroying giant power poles. The photo shows the consequences of freezing rain in Switzerland.

A man tries to alleviate the difficult conditions for his son in a prison for prisoners of war. March 31, 2003. An Najaf, Iraq.

Dolly is a female sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from the cell of another adult creature. The experiment was carried out in Great Britain, where she was born on July 5, 1996.

The Patterson-Gimlin film's 1967 documentary film of a female Bigfoot, the American Bigfoot, is still the only clear photographic evidence of the existence of living relict hominids on earth.

Republican soldier Federico Borel García is depicted facing death. The photo caused a huge shock in society. The author of the photo is Robert Capa.

The photo, taken by reporter Alberto Korda at a rally in 1960, claims to be the most circulated photo in the history of photography.

The photograph showing the hoisting of the Victory Banner over the Reichstag spread throughout the world. 1945 Author - Evgeny Khaldey.

Death of a Nazi functionary and his family. The father of the family killed his wife and children, then shot himself. 1945, Vienna.

For millions of Americans, this photograph, which photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt called “Unconditional Surrender,” symbolized the end of World War II.

The assassination of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John Kennedy, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 local time.

On December 30, 2006, ex-president Saddam Hussein was executed in Iraq. The Supreme Court has sentenced the former Iraqi leader to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out at 6 a.m. in a suburb of Baghdad.

American soldiers drag the body of a Viet Cong (South Vietnamese rebel) soldier on a leash. February 24, 1966, Tan Binh, South Vietnam.

A young boy looks out of a bus loaded with refugees who fled the epicenter of the war between Chechen separatists and Russians, near Shali, Chechnya. The bus returns to Grozny. May 1995. Chechnya

Terry the cat and Thomson the dog are dividing who will be the first to start eating Jim the hamster. The owner of the animals and the author of this wonderful photograph, American Mark Andrew, claims that no one was hurt during the photo shoot.

French photographer Henry Cartier Bresson, who is considered one of the founders of the genre of photo reporting and photojournalism, took this shot in Beijing in the winter of 1948. The photograph shows children queuing for rice.

Photographer Bert Stern became the last person to photograph Marilyn Monroe. A few weeks after the photo shoot, the actress passed away.

There were times when alcohol was sold to children - all the parent had to do was write a note. In this shot, the boy proudly walks home, carrying two bottles of wine to his father.

The English Rugby Championship final in 1975 gave rise to the so-called streaking, which is when people run onto the field in the middle of a sporting event. naked people. A fun hobby, and nothing more.

In 1950, at the height of the Korean War, General MacArthur, when the Chinese launched a counteroffensive, realized that he had overestimated the capabilities of his troops. It was then that he uttered his most famous phrase: “We retreat! For we are moving in the wrong direction!”

This photograph of Winston Churchill was taken on January 27, 1941 in a photographic studio in Downing Street. Churchill wanted to show the world the resilience and determination of the British during World War II.

This photograph was made into a postcard and was for a long time the most popular postcard in America. The photograph shows three girls with dolls arguing furiously about something in an alley in Sevilla (Spain).

Two boys collect the fragments of a mirror, which they themselves had previously broken. And life is still in full swing around.