Popular contemporary photographers. The most famous photographs
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, replicated, used in modern culture and are called photo icons. And each of these photos has its own story ...
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 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, on which "absolute intransigence", 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 again retreated into the shadows. The photo was rejected by the editor of the magazine "Revolution", and this upset Korda, who was convinced of the power of this work. He cropped the picture, printed it out in several copies, hung one on the 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 photo, but was against the commercial use of Che's image. Especially in advertising those products that the Comandante would never have supported. Alberto sued, for example, agencies Lowe Lintas and Rex Features when they started selling Smirnoff vodka using this picture. He won $50,000, which he immediately donated to Cuban medicine.
Einstein turned 72 on the day this photograph was taken. On March 14, 1951, almost all publications photographed him, and he was very tired and annoyed. UPI photographer Arthur Sasse was one of the last, and he worked hard to get Einstein to smile. But the greatest mind of the twentieth century showed the photographer his tongue instead. In 2009, the original photograph of the mischievous Einstein was auctioned off 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 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.
National Geographic magazine in 1984 set out to trace the genetic path of green eyes, which began in the time of Genghis Khan. While researching and collecting 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 (Sharbat Gula). A shot of a frightened, wide-eyed refugee beauty was featured on the cover of National Geographic in 1985 and has since become a world-famous symbol of the Afghan conflict and the suffering of refugees around the world. Now the photo is even called the “Afghan Mona Lisa”. By the time the National Geographic team found Sharbat, she was already about thirty, she returned to her native Afghanistan and had never seen this photo before meeting with NG and did not know about her worldwide fame.
Photograph 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 fatally shot by an enemy. The photo is very emotional, dramatic, capturing a terrible moment - that's why it instantly gained popularity, but at the same time, doubts from a part of society. And now almost no one doubts that the cult shot was a production. Firstly, it was not made at the site of the fighting, but a few kilometers from it. And secondly, Federico Borrell García, who tragically died in a photograph in an open field and was then identified, was actually shot while trying to hide behind a tree.
And this picture 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 has documented thirteen wars, but his most famous photograph is this one taken on February 1, 1968. For which he later had to apologize. The picture instantly spread through newspapers and news agencies, everyone in the States spoke about it, many with reproach and indignation - what is on it is too scary. Eddie claimed that it was not a planned shot, that it was some kind of reflex, and he did not even know what he shot until he developed the film. And having shown, I realized that it is impossible to hush up this. But later he wrote in Time: “The general killed the Viet Cong, I killed the general with my camera. Photos are still the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but the photographs lie, even without such intentions. They are only half true. The photo didn't say, "What would you do if you were that general at the 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 that this photograph had done to the general's honor.
Another world famous photo Vietnam War is no longer as ambiguous as the previous one. This is a symbol of the horror and suffering of innocent people who fall "under the distribution" along with the military. The image, taken by South Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut, shows people running from the napalm that the South Vietnamese military pours on the village. The logical center of the composition is a naked girl who screams in horror and pain. This is nine-year-old Kim Fook, she has terrible third-degree burns on her back and back of her legs, and she is trying to escape. After taking a picture, Nick picked up the girl and took her and other injured children to the hospital. The doctors were sure that she would not survive, but after 14 months in the hospital and 17 operations, Kim Fook 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 today, she devoted her life to medicine and helping children victims of wars. Sometimes she gives interviews and participates in talk shows: “Napalm is the most terrible pain you can imagine. Water boils at 100 degrees, and napalm has a temperature of 800 to 1200. Forgiveness freed me from hatred. I still have a lot of scars on my body and I am in a lot of pain almost all the time, 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 figure out how to live with true love, hope, and forgiveness. If that little girl in the photo could do it, ask yourself if you can too?”
Photography is a symbol of the confrontation between the power of weapons and the strength of the human spirit. A single person walked out in front of a column of tanks near Beijing's Tiananmen Square during the June 1989 riots. He had two ordinary plastic bags in his hands, with which he threatened the tanks when they stopped. The first tank made an attempt to bypass the man, but he again stood in his way. After several unsuccessful attempts to bypass it, the tanks turned off the engines, and the commander of the first one spoke to the stubborn peacekeeper. Then he again tried to go around him, and the man again stood in front of the tank. Four photographers captured the moment, but the world-famous photograph was that of Jeff Widener, long banned in China. The man was never identified, but he was included by Time magazine in the list of the 100 most important people of the twentieth century.
This shocking photograph not only shows the suffering of children in Sudan during the 1993 famine, but also tells the story of the emotional suffering of the photographer who took the picture. Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for this photo and blew his car's exhaust into the cabin two months later. A little exhausted girl, crawling towards the humanitarian aid camp, stopped to rest, and at that time a hungry vulture swooped down into the clearing and walked in circles in anticipation of the death of a child. Kevin waited 20 minutes before the shot got good enough for him. And only then drove the vulture away, and the girl crawled on. A wave of criticism hit Carter 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 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 they remained unknown for a long time. 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 Leica 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.”
What can make a world famous photographer even more visible? Is it really the number of years that he / she has devoted to the profession of a photographer, the experience that has accumulated, or a certain chosen direction of photography? Nothing like this; The most important reason for this may be hidden in any photo frame that the photographer managed to capture.
Most of the most famous photographers most often try to remain silent on this topic. It is quite enough for them to have copyright signatures on their works so that these works become recognizable. Some famous photographers prefer to remain unrecognizable by not revealing their face for personal reasons. These reasons may remain a mystery to a growing audience of admirers, or maybe it all lies in the excessive modesty of these people. The most famous photographers are honored, as a rule, for a certain shot of an incredible, amazing moment that can literally last some milliseconds. People are fascinated by the fact that such an amazing event or incident can be captured in such a short time.
As the saying goes, "One photograph can express a thousand words." And so, each of the world's most famous photographers, once or twice in his career, managed to capture such a frame that can elevate him to the rank of greatness. In this article, some of the most famous photographers in the world who have succeeded in their profession are presented, as well as the very works that made them famous. These photographers managed to touch the hearts of many people in the world with their amazing, sometimes stunning photographs. Most Famous Photographers Peace.
Murray Becker, photographer for the Associated Press, became famous for his photograph of the Hindenburg airship on fire. He died of cancer at the age of 77.
(1961-1994) - South African Pultzer Prize-winning fine art photographer Kevin Carter spent several months of his life photographing famine in Sudan. As a freelance photographer for Reuter and Sygma Photo NY, and a former magazine illustration editor for the Mail and the Gaurdian, Kevin has dedicated his career to reporting on conflicts in his native South Africa. He was highly acclaimed at the prestigious Ilford Photo Press Awards for Best News Photograph of the Year in 1993.
One of the most important figures in contemporary photography is Helen Levitt. For 60 years, her calm, poetic photographs, taken on the streets of the city in which she lived most of her life, have inspired and amazed generations of photographers, students, collectors, curators and art lovers. Throughout her long career, Helen Levitt has captured her poetic vision, humor and ingenuity in her most sincere portraits of the men, women and children who live on the streets of New York.
She was born in 1945-46. She made the film "On the Streets" with Janis Loeb and James Azhi, the peculiarity of this film was that in it she presented a moving portrait of herself. Levitt's most important exhibition was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943, and a solo exhibition of only color works was held there in 1974. Major retrospectives of her work have been held at several museums: the first in 1991, in association with the San Francisco Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and at the International Center for Photography in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and 2001 at the Center for National Photography in Paris.
Philipp Halsman (1906-1979) was born in Riga Latvia Riga, Latvia. He studied engineering in Dresden before moving to Paris, where he established his photography studio in 1932. Thanks to his spontaneous style, Halsman has earned the attention of many of his admirers. His portraits of actors and authors have appeared on the covers of books and magazines; he worked in fashion (especially hat design) and also had a large number of private clients. By 1936, Halsman had become known as one of the finest portrait photographers in France.
From 1940 to 1970, Philippe Halsman made brilliant portraits of celebrities, intellectuals and politicians who appeared on the covers of magazines: Look, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, Paris Match, and especially Life. His work has also appeared in advertisements for Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, NBC, Simon & Schuster, and Ford.
Charles O'Rear (born 1941) American photographer is widely known for his photograph of Bliss, which was used as the default wallpaper for Windows XP.
For 70 years he participated in the project of the Defense Agency Environment DOCUMERICA and photographed for National Geographic magazine for over 25 years. He began his career as a photographer in the wine industry and took photographs for the Napa Valley winegrowers organization. He then went on to photograph wine products around the world. To date, he has submitted his photographs for seven books dedicated to winemaking.
Roger Fenton (March 28, 1819 – August 8, 1869) was a pioneer of photography in Britain, and one of the first war photographers to cover events during the war. how this allowed him only to a small extent to display his talent for landscape photography. In addition, he played an important role in general development photos.
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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 New York in times of unemployment, people were less frightened 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 studio 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 Behind a 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 they remained unknown for a long time. 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 diligently prepare 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 appearance creatures, 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 a Vietnamese monk, Thich Quang Duc, who set himself on fire to protest the regime's relentless persecution of Buddhists. 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 invented only in 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. Son of an immigrant rabbi from 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 to older sister in Minnesota, Saint 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. The total 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
Photo: 100photos.time.com Alan Kurdi, Nilüfer Demir, 2015
Photo: 100photos.time.com Bosnia, Ron Haviv, 1992
Photo: 100photos.time.com Man in the Moon, Neil Armstrong, NASA, 1969
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Everyone has seen these pictures: a selection of the most famous and most impressive photographs that have repeatedly circled the whole world.
"The most famous photograph that no one has seen" is how Associated Press photographer Richard Drew calls his picture of one of the victims of the World shopping center jumping out of the window towards own death 11 September
Malcolm Brown, a 30-year-old photographer from New York, following an anonymous tip, filmed the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc, which became a sign of protest against the repression of Buddhists.
A 21-week-old fetus that was supposed to be born in December of last year, in the womb before starting spinal surgery. At this age, a child can still be legally aborted.
The death of the Al-Dura boy, filmed by a TV station reporter, as he is shot to death 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 flew to Sudan specifically to shoot scenes of hunger in a small village.
A Jewish settlement confronts Israeli police as they enforce a Supreme Court decision to demolish 9 houses in the Amon settlement outpost, West Bank, February 1, 2006.
A 12-year-old Afghan girl is the famous photograph taken by Steve McCurry in a refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistani border.
July 22, 1975, Boston. A girl and a woman fall trying to escape the fire. Photo by Stanley Forman/Boston Herald, USA.
"Unknown Rebel" on Tiananmen Square. This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widene, shows a protester who single-handedly held off a tank column for half an hour.
The girl Teresa, who grew up in a concentration camp, draws a "house" on the blackboard. 1948, Poland. Author - David Seymour.
The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 is a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks that took place in the United States. According to the official version, the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda is responsible for these attacks.
Frozen Niagara Falls. Photo taken in 1911.
April 1980, UK. Karamoja region, Uganda. Hungry boy and missionary. Photo by Mike Wells.
White and color, photograph by Elliott Erwitt, 1950.
Young Lebanese people drive through the 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 completely changed American attitudes towards what was happening in Vietnam.
Lynching, 1930 This shot was taken when a mob of 10,000 whites hanged two black men for raping a white woman and killing her boyfriend. Written by Lawrence Beitler.
At the end of April 2004, the CBS program 60 Minutes II aired a story about the torture and abuse of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison by a group of American soldiers. It became the most loud scandal around 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 the history of mankind: a giant poisonous cloud thrown into the atmosphere by an American pesticide factory killed more than 18 thousand people.
Photographer and scientist Lennart Nilsson became internationally famous in 1965 when LIFE magazine published 16 pages of photographs of a human embryo.
Photo loch ness monster, 1934 Author - Ian Wetherell.
Riveters. The picture was taken September 29, 1932 on the 69th floor of Rockefeller Center in recent months construction.
Surgeon Jay Vacanti from main hospital Massachusetts in Boston in 1997, he managed to grow a human ear on the back of a mouse using cartilage cells.
Freezing rain can form a thick crust of ice on any object, destroying even giant power lines. In the photo - the consequences of freezing rain in Switzerland.
A man tries to alleviate the difficult conditions for his son in a POW prison. 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 set up in the UK, where she was born on July 5, 1996.
The 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film documentary of a female Bigfoot, the American Bigfoot, is still the only clear photographic evidence of the existence of living relic hominids on earth.
Republican soldier Federico Borel Garcia is depicted in the face of death. The picture caused a huge uproar in society. Photographed by Robert Capa.
A photograph taken by reporter Alberto Korda at a rally in 1960 claims to be the most publicized photograph in history.
The photo, which depicted the hoisting of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag, spread around the world. 1945 Author - Evgeny Khaldei.
The 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", has become a symbol of the end of World War II.
The assassination of the thirty-fifth US President John F. Kennedy was committed on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas (Texas) at 12:30 local time.
On December 30, 2006, former President Saddam Hussein was executed in Iraq. The Supreme Court sentenced the former Iraqi leader to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out at 6 am in the suburbs of Baghdad.
The US military is dragging 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 from a bus loaded with refugees who have fled the epicenter of a war between Chechen separatists and Russians near Shali, Chechnya. The bus returns to Grozny. May 1995 Chechnya
Terry the cat and Thomson the dog share who will be the first to eat Jim the hamster for dinner. The owner of the animals and the author of this wonderful photo, American Mark Andrew, claims that no one was hurt during the photo shoot.
French photographer Henri Cartier Bresson, who is credited with the founders of the genre of photo essay and photojournalism, took this shot in Beijing in the winter of 1948. The photograph shows children queuing for rice.
Photographer Bert Stern was the last person to photograph Marilyn Monroe. A few weeks after the photo shoot, the actress died.
There were times when alcohol was sold to children - it was enough for a parent to write a note. In this frame, the boy proudly walks home, carrying two bottles of wine to his father.
The final of the English rugby championship in 1975 gave rise to the so-called "striking" - this is when naked people run onto the field in the midst of a sporting event. A fun hobby, nothing more.
In 1950, at the height of time 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: "Retreat! For we are moving in the wrong direction!"
This photograph of Winston Churchill was taken on 27 January 1941 at a photography studio in Downing Street. Churchill wanted to show the world the resilience and determination of the British during World War II.
This photo was remade into a postcard and for a long time was the most popular postcard in America. The photo shows how three girls with dolls are arguing furiously about something on the alley of Sevilla (Spain).
Two boys are collecting fragments of a mirror, which they themselves broke before. And there is still life all around.
The image can speak all languages. And their language is understood not only by photographers, but also by photography lovers, just grateful viewers. Photography has witnessed the evolution of cameras, from the traditional camera obscura to the modern digital one. All of them were used to obtain an excellent image. When you think about some of the most famous photographers from the past and present, photography is an art and not just “freezing” the moment.
When William Henry Fox Talbot invented the negative/positive photographic process, he probably had no idea how popular his invention would be. Today, photography, and therefore the specialty of photographers, is divided into different categories that range from fashion, wildlife, interiors, portraits, travel, food to ... The list is endless. Let's take a look at some of the most famous photographers in the most popular photography categories. See also examples of their work.
Fashion
Irving Penn
This American photographer is known for his chic and elegant shots, especially from the post-World War II era. Since 1938, he has collaborated with Vogue magazine and actively uses the technique of white and gray backgrounds. It is the use of this technique that makes it the greatest photographer that time. Penn's photography has always been one step ahead of its time. A series of nude shots made a lot of noise.
Terence Donovan
This British photographer was known for his photographs of the fashion world in the 60s. His indefatigable thirst for adventure was reflected in his work, and in order to obtain beautiful images, the models performed rather daring stunts. Approximately 3,000 advertising images, this man was a member of the richest people in London and was a popular celebrity photographer.
Richard Avedon
It was he who moved away from the traditional understanding of models. Born in New York and set up his own studio in 1946. Richard Avedon showed models in natural light, and many of his works have been published in the pages of Vogue and Life magazines. As a photographer, he received many awards in his time and the images he created were recognized all over the world.
Nature and Wildlife
Ansel Adams
Born in the city of San Francisco. He made a huge contribution to the development of black and white photography. He was interested in questions related to nature. Ansel Adams is the author of several epic photographic frescoes. Received three Guggenheim Fellowships.
Frans Lanting
Frans was born in Rotterdam. His work could be seen on the pages of such magazines as National Geographic, Life, Outdoor Photographer. Frans traveled a lot and his photographs clearly express his love for the flora and fauna of the rainforests.
Galen Rowell
For many years, Galen conveyed the relationship between man and the desert. His photographs, like nothing else, conveyed the fascinating and magnetic beauty of these sultry places. 1984 award winner. Collaborated with many well-known publications of the time. Rowell's work was distinguished by its depth and coverage of everything new in the displayed topic.
Photojournalism
Henri Cartier-Bresson ( Henri Cartier—Bresson)
French photographer who influenced the development of photojournalism for many years. Received international recognition for his coverage of Gandhi's funeral in India in 1948. He traveled extensively around the world and firmly believed that the art of a photojournalist was to capture the "right" moment. Some call him the father of the photo essay.
Eddie Adams
Pulitzer Prize winner and winner of more than 500 prizes. His photographs depicting the Vietnam War from the inside shocked the whole world. Adams also took portraits of celebrities, politicians and military leaders of the time. He believed that the photographer should be able to manipulate the scene in order to reflect the truth.
Felice Beato
Famous "war photographer". His penchant for travel has allowed him to capture many moods and moments in different corners of the earth. Traveled to India, Japan, China. It was Felice who captured the Indian uprising of 1857 and the events of the second Opium War. His powerful and immortal work is still a source of inspiration for photojournalists.
Portrait shooting
Ueno Hikoma
Born in Nagasaki. Fame brought portrait work and landscape photography. He started with his own commercial studio, where he gained tremendous experience in portrait photography. The author of portraits of many famous and famous people that time. In 1891 he made a portrait of the Russian heir to the throne.
Philippe Halsman
Although Halsman suffered some early setbacks in his personal life, this did not stop him from becoming a great portrait painter of his time. His photographs were somewhat sharp and dark and differed significantly from the portraits of the time. Portraits were published in many magazines of that time, including Vogue. After meeting the surrealist artist Salvador Dali, he decides to make a surreal portrait of Dali, a skull and seven nudes. Three hours were spent on the implementation of the planned work. It was he who developed the philosophy of displaying a person in motion, in a jump. He believed that this was the only way to show a “real” person from the inside. At the peak of his career, he took portraits of celebrities such as Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Judy Garland and Pablo Picasso.
Hiro Kikai ( Hiroh Kikai)
The popularity of this Japanese photographer brought monochrome portraits of the inhabitants of the Asakusa district (Tokyo). IN early years he witnessed many clashes and spent all free time taking pictures of visitors to Asakusa. A perfectionist by nature, he could spend several days looking for the right person - the subject of shooting.
aerial photography
Talbert Abrams
The first shots in this category were taken while serving in the US Marine Corps during World War II. Photographic images of the squadron during the period of insurgency in Haiti helped decide to continue this art.
William Garnett ( William Garnett)
Born in Chicago in 1916, he began his career as a photographer and graphic designer in 1938. Assisted the US Army in the production of training films for US troops. By 1949, he had already acquired his own aircraft and switched to aerial photography.
Underwater photography
Dustin Humphrey
A surfer and photography enthusiast who has his own photography studio in Bali. His passion for surfing helped him take some amazing photos for which he received the Sony World Photography Award in 2009. It's amazing how he managed to gather so many people and film it all without a single cut!
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