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The profession of photographer today is one of the most widespread. Perhaps it would be easier here to become the best of the best at the beginning or middle of the 20th century. Today, when every second or third photographer, well, at least considers himself one, the criteria for good photography, at first glance, are blurred. But this is only at first, superficial glance. Quality standards and focus on talent have not gone away. You always need to keep before your eyes a kind of standard, an example that you can follow. We have prepared for you a list of the 20 best photographers in the world, which will become an excellent tuning fork...
Alexander Rodchenko
Revolutionary photographer. Rodchenko means as much to photography as Eisenstein does to cinema. He worked at the intersection of avant-garde, propaganda, design and advertising.
All these hypostases formed an inextricable unity in his work.
By rethinking all the genres that existed before him, he made a kind of great turning point in the art of photography and set the course for everything new and progressive. The famous photographs of Lily Brik and Mayakovsky belong to his lens.
- He is also the author of the famous phrase “Work for life, not for palaces, temples, cemeteries and museums.”
Henri-Cartier Bresson
A classic of street photography. Native of Chanteloupe, Seine-et-Marne department in France. He started out as an artist painting in the “surrealism” genre, but his achievements did not end there. In the early 30s, when the famous Leica fell into his hands, he fell in love with photography forever.
Already in 1933, an exhibition of his works was held at Julien Levy, a gallery in New York. He worked with director Jean Renoir. Bresson's street reports are especially appreciated.
Contemporaries especially noted his talent for remaining invisible to the person being photographed.
Therefore, the unstaged, authentic nature of his photographs is striking. Like a true genius, he left a galaxy of talented followers.
Anton Corbijn
Perhaps, for fans of Western rock music, this name is not an empty phrase. In general, one of the most famous photographers in the world.
The most original and extraordinary photographs of such groups as: Depeche Mode, U2, Nirvana, Joy Division and others were taken by Anton. He is also the designer of U2 albums. Plus he shot videos for a number of teams and performers, including: Coldplay, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, country legend Johnny Cash, thrash metal mastodons Metallica, and singers Roxette.
Critics note the originality of Corbijn's style, which, however, has countless imitators.
Mick Rock
There are paparazzi photographers who intrude into the personal lives of stars without permission and are mercilessly thrown out of there. And then there are people like Mick Rock.
What does it mean? Well, how can I tell you? Remember David Bowie? Here is Mick - the only person with a lens at the ready who was able to enter the personal space of the discoverer of new musical horizons, the trickster and the Martian from rock music. Mick Rock's photographs are a kind of cardiogram of Bowie's creative period from 1972 to 1973, when Ziggy Stardust had not yet returned back to his planet.
During that period and earlier, David and his associates worked hard on the image of a real star, which as a result became a reality. In terms of budget, Mick's work is inexpensive, but impressive. “Everything was created on a very small scale with smoke and mirrors,” Mick recalled.
Georgy Pinkhasov
An original photographer of his generation, a member of the Magnum agency, a graduate of VGIKA. It was Georgy who was invited by Andrei Tarkovsky to the set of the film “Stalker” as a reporter.
During the years of Perestroika, when the nude genre was a priority among advanced photographers, Georgy was one of the first to draw attention to the importance of a reportage photograph. They say that he did this at the suggestion of Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra.
As a result, today his photographs of that everyday life are not only masterpieces containing authenticity, but also the most important evidence of that era. One of the famous cycles of Georgy Pinkhasov is “Tbilisi Baths”. Georgy notes the important role of chance in art.
Annie Leibovitz
An essential name for our list of the best photographers. Annie made immersion into the life of a model her main creative principle.
One of the most famous portraits of John Lennon was made by her, and quite spontaneously.
“At that time I didn’t yet know how to control models, ask them to do what I needed. I was just metering the exposure and asked John to look into the lens for a second. And clicked...”
The result immediately made it onto the cover of Rolling Stone. The last photo shoot in Lennon's life was also carried out by her. The same photo of a naked John curled up around Yoko Ono, dressed all in black. Who hasn't been captured by Annie Leibovitz's camera: pregnant Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg bathing in milk, Jack Nicholson playing golf in a dressing gown, Michelle Obama, Natalia Vodianova, Meryl Streep. It’s impossible to list them all.
Sarah Moon
Real name is Mariel Hadang. Born in Paris 1941, during the Vichy regime her family moved to England. Mariel started out as a model, posing for various publications, then she tried herself on the other side of the lens and got a taste for it.
One can note her sensitive work with models, since Sarah knew firsthand about their profession. Her works are distinguished by their particular sensuality; Sarah is noted for her talent for especially sensitively conveying the femininity of her models.
In the 70s, Sarah left the modeling field and turned to black and white art photography. In 1979 he made experimental films. Subsequently, she worked as a cameraman on the set of the film “Lulu,” which would receive an award at the Venice Film Festival in 1987.
Sally Man
Another female photographer. Native of Lexington, Virginia. She almost never left her native place. Since the 70s, it has essentially worked only in the South of the United States.
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He shoots only in the summer; all other seasons he develops photographs. Favorite genres: portrait, landscape, still life, architectural photography. Favorite color scheme: black and white. Sally became famous for her photographs depicting members of her family - her husband and children.
The main thing that distinguishes her work is the simplicity of the subjects and interest in Everyday life. Sally and her husband belong to the hippie generation, which has become corporate style their lives: life away from the city, gardening, independence from social conventions.
Sebastian Salgado
Magic realist from photography. He draws all his wonderful images from reality. They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
So, Sebastian is able to discern it in anomalies, misfortunes and environmental disasters.
Wim Wenders, outstanding director of “Deutsche new wave”, spent a quarter of a century exploring Salgado’s work, resulting in the film “The Salt of the Earth,” which received a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
Considered a classic of the crime genre in photography. During the period of his active work, not a single urban incident - from a fight to a murder - went unnoticed by Weegee.
He was ahead of his competitors, and sometimes got to the crime scene even earlier than the police. In addition to crime topics, he specialized in reporting on the everyday life of the slums of the metropolis.
His photographs formed the basis of Jules Dassin's noir Naked City, and Weegee is also mentioned in Zack Snyder's Watchmen. And the famous director Stanley Kubrick studied the art of photography from him in his youth. Check out the genius's early films, they're definitely influenced by Weegee's aesthetic.
Irving Penn
Master in the portrait genre. One can note a number of his favorite techniques: from shooting models in the corner of a room to using a plain white or gray background.
Irwin also liked to photograph representatives of various working professions in their uniforms and with tools at the ready. Brother of New Hollywood director Arthur Penn, famous for his Bonnie and Clyde.
Diane Arbus
Her name at birth was Diana Nemerova. Her family emigrated from Soviet Russia in 1923 and settled in a New York neighborhood.
Diana was distinguished by a desire to violate generally accepted norms and to commit extravagant acts. At the age of 13, against the wishes of her parents, she married Alan Arbus, an aspiring actor, and took his last name. After some time, Alan left the stage and took up photography, involving his wife in the business. They opened a photography studio and shared responsibilities. Creative differences led to a break in the 60s. Having defended her creative principles, Diana became a cult photographer.
As an artist, she was distinguished by her interest in freaks, dwarfs, transvestites, and the weak-minded. And also to nudity. You can learn more about Diana’s personality by watching the film “Fur,” where she was played perfectly by Nicole Kidman.
Evgeny Khaldey
A very important photographer for our list. Thanks to him, key events of the first half of the 20th century were captured. While still a teenager, he chose the path of a photojournalist.
Already at the age of 22, he was an employee of TASS Photo Chronicles. He made reports about Stakhanov, photographed the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station. He worked as a war correspondent throughout the Great Patriotic War. Walking from Murmansk to Berlin with his trusty Leica camera, he took a series of photographs, thanks to which today we can at least imagine everyday life in war.
His lens captured the Potsdam Conference, the hoisting of the red flag over the Reichstag, the act of surrender of Nazi Germany and other important events. In 1995, two years before his death, Evgeniy Khaldei received the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Mark Riboud
Master of the reporting genre. His first famous photograph, published in Life, is “Painter on the Eiffel Tower.” Recognized as a photographic genius, Riboud had a modest personality.
He tried to remain invisible both to those photographed and to his admirers.
The most famous photograph is of a hippie girl holding out a flower to soldiers standing with machine guns at the ready. He also has a series of photographs from the everyday life of the USSR in the 60s and a lot of other interesting things.
Richard Kern
And a little more rock and roll, especially since this is the main theme of this photographer, along with violence and sex. Considered one of the most important photographers for the New York underground.
He captured many famous, one might say extremely famous, musicians. Among them is the absolute monster and transgressor punk musician GG Allin. Kern also collaborates with men's magazines, where he submits his erotic works.
But his approach is far from the generally glossy one. In his spare time from photography, he shoots music videos. Among the groups with which Kern collaborated are Sonic Youth and Marilyn Manson.
Thomas Morkes
Do you want peace, silence, or maybe even solitude? Then this is one of the most suitable candidates. Thomas Morkes from the Czech Republic is a landscape photographer who chose the charm of autumn nature as his theme. These photographs have it all: romance, sadness, the triumph of fading.
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One of the effects of Thomas’s photographs is the desire to get away from the city noise into some such jungle and reflect on the Eternal.
Yuri Artyukhin
Counts best photo count of wild animals. He is a researcher at the laboratory of ornithology at the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Yuri passionately loves birds.
It was for his photographs of birds that he received (more than once) a variety of awards not only in Russia, but throughout the world.
Helmut Newton
What about the nude genre? An excellent, very subtle and delicate genre that has its own masters.
Helmut became famous throughout the world for his works. His unspoken motto was the expression “Sex sells,” which means “sex helps sell.”
Winner of the most prestigious competitions, including the French “Order of Arts and Letters”.
Ron Galella
Having covered various areas of photography, it is impossible not to say about the pioneer of such a dubious and at the same time important for understanding modern world genre, like paparazzi.
You probably know that this phrase comes from Federico Fellini’s film “La Dolce Vita.” Ron Garella is one of those photographers who will not ask permission to shoot, but on the contrary, will catch stars when they are not ready for this in general.
Julia Roberts, Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Sophia Loren - this is not a complete list of those whom Ron willfully caught. One day, Marlon Brando got so angry with Ron that he knocked out several of his teeth on the spot.
Guy Bourdin
One of the most important photographers needed for a correct understanding of the world of fashion, its origins and aesthetics. He combines eroticism and surrealism in his works. One of the most copied and imitated photographers in the world. Erotic, surreal. Now - a quarter of a century after his death - it is increasingly relevant and modern.
He published his first photographs in the mid-50s. The photo was, to put it mildly, provocative. A girl in an elegant hat against the backdrop of calf heads looking out of the window of a butcher shop. Over the next 32 years, Bourdain regularly contributed entertaining photographs to Vogue magazine. What set him apart from many of his colleagues was that Bourdain was given complete creative freedom.
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Time: The 100 Most Influential Photos of All Time
The American magazine Time presented the 100 most influential photographs of all time.
Journalists, photographers, editors and historians from around the world spent nearly three years selecting the photographs for the project and conducted thousands of interviews with the authors of the photographs, their friends, family members, and the people in them.
Each photograph 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 photograph of an unknown rebel who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks.
Emmett Till, David Jackson, 1955
Photo: 100photos.time.com The Size of the Earth, William Anders, 1968
Photo: 100photos.time.com Heroic guerrilla, Alberto Korda, 1960
Photo: 100photos.time.com 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 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 Sony Liston, Neil Leifer, 1965
Photo: 100photos.time.com Lunch Atop a Skyscraper, 1932
Photo: 100photos.time.com Photograph by American photographer Charles Clyde Ebbets, taken in 1932 during the Great Depression. It is rightfully considered one of the best photographs in the world and a symbol of industrialization of the 20th century. It shows 11 workers sitting in a row on steel beam at a great height, without insurance, casually having lunch 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. Construction was underway on the Rockefeller Center, it was on the 69th floor.
Pillow fight, Harry Benson, 1964
Photo: 100photos.time.com View from the window of Le Grace, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826
Photo: 100photos.time.com Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first (in 1820) to find a way to fix the image obtained in a camera obscura, using asphalt varnish as a photosensitive substance. He called this process “heliography” (translated from Greek as “drawn by light”).
In 1826, using light rays, he obtained a copy of the engraving, thereby laying the foundation for reproduction technology. In the same 1826, Niépce directed a camera obscura from the window of the workshop onto the roofs of neighboring buildings and obtained, although vague, a fixed light pattern.
The resulting photograph can hardly be called successful. But its dignity is determined not by the clarity of the image, but by a completely different criterion: the serial number. She is the first. The world's first photograph. And in this sense, it is not only successful, but absolutely priceless. And like all the first things, she 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 from Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955, Richard Avedon
Photo: 100photos.time.com Famine in Somalia, James Nachtwey, 1992
Photo: 100photos.time.com Behind Closed Doors, 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 Victory over Japan Day 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 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.”
Surfing Hippos, Michael Nichols, 2000
Photo: 100photos.time.com Horse in motion, Eadweard Muybridge, 1878
Photo: 100photos.time.com The crash of the Hindenburg airship, Sam Shere, 1937
Photo: 100photos.time.com Photojournalist Sam Sheir watched as the Hindenburg landed and workers secured the mooring ropes. Suddenly he saw a bright flash and, raising the camera, pressed the button without even looking through the viewfinder. The next moment powerful explosion threw him to the ground and he dropped the camera. Sheir took one single photograph, but it was the one that became the symbol of the crash of the Hindenburg, and it was the one that received the dubious fame of becoming “the world’s first photograph recording the crash of an aircraft.”
Attempts on JFK, frame 313, Abraham Zapruder, 1963
Photo: 100photos.time.com Situation Room, Pete Souza, 2011
Photo: 100photos.time.com The Falling Soldier, Robert Capa, 1936
Photo: 100photos.time.com Michael Jordan, Co Rentmeester, 1984
Photo: 100photos.time.com Black Power Salute, John Dominis, 1968
Photo: 100photos.time.com Mother of Migrants, Dorothea Lange, 1936
Photo: 100photos.time.com The photograph is best known as Migrant Mother or by the headline of the newspaper article in which it was first published - "Look into Her Eyes." However, in the Library of Congress, this photograph has the following description: “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 in a 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 a rare opportunity to photograph Mahatma Gandhi, the ideological leader of India and one of the most famous and exalted personalities of the 20th century.
Bourke-White had to prepare diligently for the photo shoot, as 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). She also had to learn how to spin using a wheel before taking photographs. She overcame all these trials and obstacles without hesitation.
In the process of obtaining this immortal photograph of Mahatma Gandhi, Bourke-White suffered a number of setbacks. She had technical difficulties on both her first and second attempts: one flash bulb was broken, and another frame was blank because she forgot to insert a plate into the camera.
But despite the humid Indian climate at this time, and overcoming poor health, she remained calm, and her third attempt was successful. Margaret walked away triumphantly with this wonderful photograph of Gandhi and his spinning wheel.
This significant photograph became one of his best portraits, easily recognizable throughout the world. Less than two years later he was killed. 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 blurry image of a certain S-shaped figure. Gray confirmed the information about appearance creatures, and experts from Kodak, having checked the negatives, declared that 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 Vanishing Race, Edward S. Curtis, 1904
Photo: 100photos.time.com Terror Wars, Nick Ut, 1972
Photo: 100photos.time.com Blind Woman, 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”) is the name of photographs from a series of photographs by Soviet war correspondent Yevgeny Khaldei, taken on the roof of the dilapidated Nazi parliament building. The photographs are widely used to illustrate the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War Patriotic War. The photographs in this series are among the most widespread photographs of the Second World War.
The Burning Monk, Malcolm Browne, 1963
Photo: 100photos.time.com Malcolm Brown photographed Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc, who burned himself to protest the regime's ruthless 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 photo of Boulevard du Temple shows a busy street that appears deserted (shutter speed 10 minutes, so there is no movement), except for one person in the lower left of the photo (visible when zoomed in).
Iraqi girl at the checkpoint, 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 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.
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 Grief, Dmitri Baltermants, 1942
Photo: 100photos.time.com A photograph from the Second World War, taken by Soviet photojournalist Dmitry Baltermants in January 1942 in Crimea and subsequently gaining worldwide fame. The photograph shows the scene of the execution of civilians by the German occupiers: people shocked by grief are walking 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 plant the US flag on Mount Suribachi, the highest point of a very small island that has been fought over for more than a month.
Interestingly, the moment captured in the photo was not the first flag raising at this point. The mountain had been taken two hours earlier, and it was then that the “stars and stripes” were placed on it. But the flag was small, and they decided to replace it with a more significant one. This moment was captured by Joe Rosenthal, who with this photograph secured not only a Pulitzer Prize for himself, but also proved the existence of the Marine Corps, the effectiveness of which was then doubted.
Three of the photographed soldiers then died in 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 photo. The flag survived and is now kept in the Marine Corps Museum, torn and tattered.
Moonlight on a Pond, Edward Steichen, 1904
Photo: 100photos.time.com The 1904 color photograph of The Pond Moonlight was taken by Edward Steichen. Although color photography was not invented until 1907, Edward took color photographs as early as 1904. He succeeded in this thanks to the use of several layers of photosensitive rubber. The cost of the photo is estimated at $2,928,000.
Hand of Mrs. Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, 1895
Photo: 100photos.time.com Criticism, Weegee, 1943
Photo: 100photos.time.com Weegee (Weegee - onomatopoeia for the sound of a police siren; real name Arthur Fellig; 1899-1968) - American photojournalist, master of criminal chronicling. The creator of a special genre of documentary photography, capturing the nighttime New York of 1930-1950. The son of an emigrant rabbi from the Russian Empire. In the 1940s worked in Hollywood, in particular with Stanley Kubrick. Influenced many outstanding 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 Androgyne (6 men + 6 women), Nancy Burson, 1982
Photo: 100photos.time.com The Boat Without Smiles, Eddie Adams, 1977
Photo: 100photos.time.com Los Angeles Shell House, Julius Shulman, 1960
Photo: 100photos.time.com Los Angeles, famous Case Study House No. 22, built by the architect Per König (1925-2004) in 1960.
The photo was taken with a Sinar gimbal camera in 4"x5" format using double exposure mode - first there was a long shutter speed to catch the light of the city and, most importantly, the famous Sunset Boulevard, and finally a flash to get a good look at the models in the studio and the inside of the building itself.
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 his older sister in St. Paul, Minnesota. But soon, due to quarrels with his sister’s husband, he found himself on the street. He made a living as best he could - he played the piano in a seedy brothel, worked as a waiter's assistant, and played for pennies on the basketball team. In the late 1930s, Parks began to become interested in photography. This activity gradually grew from a hobby into talent and professionalism. At 29 years old he creates his first professional photography, 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 Country 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 the Gare Saint-Lazare, Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1932
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Henri Cartier-Bresson owns the concept of the “decisive moment” in photography
Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Lieutenant Charles Levy, 1945
Photo: 100photos.time.com The photo was taken on August 9, 1945 from one of the American bombers after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. The total number of deaths was 80 thousand people. Three days earlier, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion killed 166 thousand people. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only two examples in the history of mankind of the combat use of nuclear weapons.
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 by Life magazine in its list of “100 photographs that changed the world.”
Allende's last stand, Luis Orlando Lagos, 1973
Photo: 100photos.time.com Mason, August Sander, 1928
Photo: 100photos.time.com Bandit's Roost, 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 Kent State Shooting, John Paul Filo, 1970
Photo: 100photos.time.com The Death of Neda, author unknown, 2009
Photo: 100photos.time.com Hitler at a Nazi parade, Heinrich Hoffmann, 1934
Photo: 100photos.time.com Leap to Freedom, Peter Leibing, 1961
Photo: 100photos.time.com 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 public, accustomed to learning about the war from newspapers and idealized paintings by battle painters, was shocked.
Albino, Biafra, Don McCullin, 1969
Photo: 100photos.time.com Third class, Alfred Stieglitz, 1907
Photo: 100photos.time.com The photograph "The Steerage" became widely known four years after its creation, after Stieglitz published it in 1911 in his publication "Camera Work", dedicated to his own photographs in the "new style". In 1915, he reprinted this image on a large scale using heliogravure 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 on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, NASA, 1969
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These photographs are known to any person who is even more or less familiar with the history of photography. Yes, precisely art, because looking at them you understand that here, more than ever, the photographer stepped out of the framework of an outside observer into which his lens forces him, and became an Artist, that is, he rethought reality and let it pass through himself. Here we see not so much an objective reflection of reality as its subjective assessment given by the author. Each of these photos has its own story... “Federal soldiers who fell on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania” One of the first war photojournalists, Matthew Brady, was known as the creator of daggerotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. Brady had it all: career, money, own business. And he decided to risk all this (as well as his own life) 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. 
"John F. Kennedy's assassin shot..."“Oswald was taken outside. I clutch the camera. The police hold back the pressure of the townspeople. Oswald took a few steps. I press the shutter release. As soon as the shots rang out, I pulled the trigger again, but my flash did not have time to recharge. I started to worry about the first photo and two hours later I went to develop the photos.” – Robert H. Jackson The photography that raised the stakes for photojournalists. "Omaha Beach, Normandy, France" War photojournalist Robert Capa said that if your photographs are bad, it means you weren't close enough to the scene. And he knew what he was talking about. His most famous photographs were taken on the morning of June 6, 1944, when, together with the first infantry detachments, he walked ashore in Normandy on the day of the landing of the Allied forces. After coming under fire, Capa was forced to dive underwater with his camera to avoid the bullets. He barely escaped with his life. Of the four films shot by the photographer on the day of the terrible battle, only 11 frames survived - the rest were hopelessly ruined by an elderly laboratory assistant, who in a hurry exposed almost all the material (as it turned out later, he was trying to develop the films before the latest issue was put to print Life magazine). Ironically, it was this error in developing the film that gave several extant photographs their famous “surreal” appearance (Life magazine, in its comments on the photographs, erroneously suggested that they were “a little out of focus”). Fifty years later, director Steven Spielberg, while filming the Normandy landing scene from the film Saving Private Ryan, tried to recreate the effect of Robert Capa's photographs by removing the protective film from the camera lenses to create a "blur" effect. "Murder of Viet Cong by Saigon Police Chief" AP news photographer Eddie Adams once wrote, “Photography is the most powerful weapon in the world.” A very appropriate quote to illustrate own life- in 1968, his photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head not only won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also completely changed the way Americans viewed what was happening 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. “He killed a man in handcuffs,” said Eddie Adams, “and I killed him with my camera.” 
"The Death of Omaira Sanchez" November 13, 1985. Eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano (Colombia). The mountain snow melts, and a 50-meter-thick mass of mud, earth and water literally wipes out everything in its path. The death toll exceeded 23,000 people. The disaster received a huge response around the world, thanks in part to a photograph of a little girl named Omaira Sanchez. She found herself trapped, neck-deep in the slush, her legs caught in the concrete structure of the house. Rescuers tried to pump out the mud and free the child, but in vain. The girl survived for three days, after which she became infected with several viruses at once. As journalist Cristina Echandia, who was nearby all this time, recalls, Omaira sang and communicated with others. She was scared and constantly thirsty, but she behaved very courageously. On the third night she began to hallucinate. The photograph was taken several hours before death. Photographer – Frank Fournier. 
"Portrait of Churchill" January 27, 1941: Winston Churchill went into a photographic studio at 10 Downing Street to have some portraits taken of himself, demonstrating his resilience and determination. However, his look, despite everything, was too relaxed - with a cigar in his hands, the great man in no way corresponded to the image that photographer Yousuf Karsh wanted to get. He approached the great politician and with a sharp movement pulled the cigar right out of his mouth. The result is slightly higher. Churchill looks angrily at the photographer, who, in turn, presses the shutter. This is how humanity received one of the most famous portraits of Winston Churchill. Two photographs showing the enormous change in life in the United States. 
Grocery store Just a few years before the “Great Depression” in the United States. The shops are overflowing with fish, vegetables and fruits. The photo was taken in Alabama, near the railroad. "Mother of Migrants" Thanks to to the 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. 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. 
"Retreat" The retreat of the US Marines in 1950 due to inhumane frosts. During the Korean War, General MacArthur overestimated his capabilities and was absolutely confident in the success of the campaign. This is what he thought until the counterattack by the Chinese troops, after which he uttered his famous phrase: “We are retreating! Because we are moving in the wrong direction!” 
"Famine in Sudan" The author of the photograph, Kevin Carter, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his work. The card shows a Sudanese girl bent over from hunger. She will die soon, and the big condor in the background is ready for it. The photograph shocked the entire civilized world. No one, including the photographer, knows about the girl’s origins. He took the picture, chased the predator away and watched the child leave. Kevin Carter was a member of the Bang Bang Club, four intrepid photojournalists who traveled across Africa in search of photo sensations. Kevin Carter was consigned to oblivion by the entire reading public because when he was asked whether he took this girl to the food distribution point, he replied that he was only a messenger bringing news, and helping was not part of his competence. Two months after receiving the award, Carter committed suicide. Perhaps haunted by horrific memories of what he saw in Sudan. "The Monster of Loch Ness" or "The Surgeon's Photograph" This photograph is also called the “Surgeon’s Photograph.” This blurry photo, taken in April 1934, is known throughout the world. For 60 years, it fueled the most incredible assumptions about a living fossil lizard living today in the Scottish Loch Ness Lake, gave rise to a lot of rumors and speculation, initiated several underwater expeditions and gave rise to an entire tourism industry in a small Scottish town. This continued until 1994, until the adopted son of the author of the falsification, Christian Sperling, told the public that his stepfather, Marmaduke Wetherell, hired by the London Daily Mail newspaper to search for a large animal, failed to find it and decided to take this fake photo with the help of Christian's stepson and son Ian. It is Ian who is the actual author of the photograph. Nessie was hastily constructed and supported on the surface by a toy submarine and a counterweight made of planks. To make the story more credible, the scammers persuaded local surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson to identify himself as the author of the photo. 
"Line for rice" Between the winter of 1948 and the spring of 1949, Henry Cartier Bresson traveled with his camera to Beijing, Shanghai and other cities. This photo was taken in Nanjing. The photo shows a line of starving people buying rice. "Gandhi and his spinning wheel". One of the most influential people of the 20th century, Gandhi, did not like to be photographed, but in 1946, Life staff writer Margaret Bork-White was allowed to take a photo of him in front of a spinning wheel, a symbol of the struggle for Indian independence. Before the photographer was allowed to take part in the photo shoot, she herself had to learn how to use a spinning wheel - these were the requirements of Gandhi’s entourage. After overcoming this obstacle, Margaret had two more to overcome. To begin with, it turned out that it was forbidden to talk to Gandhi - he just had a “day of silence”, which he traditionally spent without talking to anyone. And because he hated bright light, Margaret was only allowed to take three photos (accompanied by three flashbulbs). The problem was also the very humid atmosphere of India, which negatively affected the condition of the camera, so the first two photos were unsuccessful, but the third shot turned out great. It was he who shaped the image of Gandhi for millions of people. The photograph became the last portrait of Gandhi during his lifetime - two years later he was assassinated. "Dali Atomicus" Philip Haltzman was the only photographer who made a career out of photographing people...in the air. He argued that when a subject jumps, he unwittingly reveals his true, inner self. One cannot but agree with this statement when looking at the photograph of Salvador Dali entitled “Dal? Atomicus”. 6 hours, 28 jumps, a room full of assistants throwing a bucket of water and angry cats into the air - this is how this photo was born. In the background of the photo is Dali's unfinished surreal masterpiece "Leda Atomica". Haltzman wanted to pour milk, not water, from the bucket, but in the post-war period this was too dismissive of the food product. Haltzman's photographs of celebrities jumping appeared on at least seven covers of Life magazine and gave rise to a new type of portraits - without the hitherto obligatory static image. "Einstein Sticking Out His Tongue" You may rightly wonder, "Did this photograph really change the world?" Einstein revolutionized nuclear physics and quantum mechanics, and this photograph changed the attitude towards both Einstein and scientists in general. The fact is that the 72-year-old scientist was tired of the constant harassment by the press that pestered him on the Princeton campus. When he was asked to smile at the camera for the hundred thousandth time, instead of smiling, he showed his tongue sticking out to the camera of Arthur Sayss. This language is the language of genius, which is why photography instantly became a classic. Now Einstein will always be remembered and considered a great original - always! "Body of Che Guevara" Thug? Sociopath? A beacon of socialism? Or, as the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre called him, “the most perfect man of our century”? Regardless of your point of view, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has long been the patron saint of revolutionaries around the world. Without a doubt, he is a legendary man, and this status was assigned to him not by life, but by his own death. Dissatisfied with Che's efforts to promote revolution among Bolivia's poor and oppressed population, the national army (trained and equipped by American troops and the CIA) captured and executed Che Guevara in 1967. But before burying his body in a secret grave, the assassins gathered around him, posing for staged photography. The military wanted to prove to the world that Che was dead, hoping that his political movement would die with him. Anticipating accusations that the photograph was falsified, Che Guevara's prudent executioners amputated his hands and preserved them in formaldehyde. But by killing a man, Bolivian officials unwittingly gave birth to a legend about him. The photograph, which went around the world, bore a striking resemblance to Renaissance images of Jesus taken from the cross. Che's face is eerily calm, and his killers preen in front of the camera, one of them points to a wound in Che Guevara's body. The allegorical meaning of the photo was immediately picked up by Che's supporters, coming up with the slogan "Che is alive!" Thanks to this photograph, Che Guevara will forever be remembered as a martyr who died for socialist ideas. "Dirigible Hindenburg" The explosion of the Hindenburg airship in 1937 is, of course, not the sinking of the Titanic or the Chernobyl tragedy of the 20th century. Of the 97 people on board, 62 miraculously survived. During landing at Lakehurst Airport, New Jersey, after a flight from Germany, the German Zeppelin Hindenburg exploded. The shell of the airship was filled with hydrogen, and not safe inert helium, since the Americans at that time had already refused to sell this gas to a potential enemy: a new world war was approaching. The event was filmed by 22 photographers. After the incident, airships were no longer considered a safe and developed form of transport. This photograph recorded the end of the development of airship construction. "Snake River Valley" Many people believe that the era of photography can be divided into two parts: before Ansel Adams and after Ansel Adams. In the “pre-Adam” era, photography was not considered at all as an independent art. The photographs were made to look like paintings using various manipulations. Adams did his best to avoid any manipulation with photographs, declaring photographic art “the poetry of reality.” With his works he proved the value of “pure photographic art.” In an era of fairly compact handheld cameras, he stubbornly stuck to bulky equipment and old-fashioned large-format cameras. Adams showed Americans the beauty of their national nature. In 1936, he took a series of photographs and sent them to Washington to help preserve Kings Canyon in California. As a result, this area was declared a national park. "Victory Day, Times Square, 1945" or "The Kiss" On August 14, 1945, news of Japan's surrender heralded the end of World War II. Wild celebrations began on the streets of New York, but perhaps none of the city's residents felt freer at that moment than the military. Among happy people Among those gathered in Times Square that day was one of the most talented photojournalists of the 20th century, a German immigrant named Alfred Eisenstadt. Capturing scenes of the celebration with his camera, he noticed a sailor "walking down the street and grabbing every girl in his field of vision." He later explained that he didn't care whether she was "grandmother, strong, thin, old or young" - he didn't Of course, a photograph of a sailor kissing the lips of a respectable pensioner would never have appeared on the cover of Life magazine, but when the dashing military man danced and kissed an attractive nurse, and Eisenstadt took the photo, the image was replicated in newspapers across the country. Needless to say, the VE Day photograph was not a depiction of a meeting between two war-torn lovers, but it remains to this day an enduring symbol of America at the end of a long struggle for peace. 
"Boy with a Grenade" A boy with a toy grenade in his hand is a famous work by photographer Diane Arbus. The boy's name is Colin Wood, the son of the famous tennis player Sidney Wood. The boy is clutching a grenade in his right hand, and his left hand is empty. Diane took a long time to select the shooting angle she needed, and in the end the guy couldn’t stand it and shouted “Shoot already!” In 2005, the photograph sold for $408,000. 
"Trunks" Street punks threatening a photographer with a gun. Yes, the child is only 11 years old, and the gun in his hands is a toy. He's just playing his game. But if you look carefully, you won’t see any game in his eyes. 
"Picasso" Eight pieces of hl:) were required in order to perfectly reflect the dissimilarity of Pablo Picasso’s views on the world and other people. The artist was delighted with this photo. “Look at the bread! Just four fingers! That’s why I decided to call this photograph “Picasso,” Picasso told his friend, photographer Duvanuoshi. 
"People and Pictures" Robert Doisneau did not follow the traditions of artistic photography of his time. Using reportage shooting techniques, he looked for the unusual in the ordinary, the exciting in the everyday. Every day, a nude painting was displayed in the window of a popular store and the reactions of passers-by were photographed. The best photos taken by Robert Doisneo were included in the “People and Pictures” series. So, perhaps, a “hidden camera” appeared.
One press of the camera shutter - and an unknown paparazzi photographer becomes rich or famous (or better yet, both), and his name is mentioned next to the names of the greatest people. You can have different attitudes towards the difficult craft of a photojournalist, but largely thanks to it we get the opportunity to see the world at least a little further than the tip of our own nose. I suggest you familiarize yourself with some photographs that have already gone down in history. Unfortunately, most of them show suffering and death (((.
The photograph was taken on September 29, 1932, on the 69th floor during the final months of construction of Rockefeller Center.
The photograph shows a victim of a terrible tragedy - the eruption of the Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz on November 13, 1985 (the fourth largest number of victims among known volcanic eruptions). A muddy slurry of dirt and earth swallowed up every living thing in its path. More than 23 thousand people died then.
A girl, Omaira Sanchez, 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 those around her. She spent three long days in a terrible trap, hoping for rescue. On the fourth, she began hallucinating and died from contracted viruses.
"Unknown Rebel" in Tiananmen Square. This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widner, shows a protester holding back a column of tanks for half an hour.
Earthrise photographed for the first time from lunar orbit during the Apollo 8 mission.
Man Ray loved to shoot nudes. But he also loved to experiment with his photographs. One day he did something for which, many years later, they would come up with a program called “Photoshop” and call it “photo processing.” Ray tried to draw a parallel for the viewer between the beautiful forms of a half-naked girl and the smooth curves of the violin. Take a closer look at the photo, it looks like it!!!
On December 30, 2006, the former president of that country, Saddam Hussein, was executed in Iraq. The High Court sentenced him to death for the massacre of Shiites in the city of Dujail in 1982. The execution took place shortly before morning prayers, and was captured on video, which was shown on all national television channels.
Government representatives present at the execution said that Saddam Hussein behaved with dignity and did not ask for mercy. He stated that he was "glad to accept death from his enemies and become a martyr" rather than vegetate in prison for the rest of his days.
All the pain is in just one look... (Henry Cartier Bresson). The photo was taken in 1948-1949, when the author traveled around China. The photo shows a hungry boy standing for long hours in an endless line for rice.
The event depicted in this photograph cannot be called a global disaster (out of 97 people on board, 35 died), but it marked the end of the era of airships. The airship "Hindenburg" was the pride of the air fleet of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler was very sensitive to its loss.
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 covered the sleeping city, killing three thousand people that same night. Another 15 thousand people died over the next month. The total number of victims is estimated at 150 thousand people (not counting children born after the disaster).
Niagara Falls is frozen. Photo from 1911.
On June 8, 1972, photographer Nick Yut took a photograph of Vietnamese girl Kim Phuc running from a napalm explosion. The picture thundered throughout the world, but Kim herself saw it for the first time only 14 months later, when she was being treated for terrible burns in Saigon. Kim still remembers the sound of falling bombs and explosions, remembers how she ran, remembers the soldier who poured water on her, mistakenly believing that this would ease her suffering. But water makes napalm burns even worse.
The photographer took the girl to the hospital. He doubted whether to publish the photo, but in the end decided that the world should see it. Nick Utah's photograph was later named the best photograph of the 20th century.
In 1982, while Kim Phuc was in medical school, the Vietnamese government found her and began using her for propaganda purposes. Kim was able to escape to Cuba, where she continued her studies and met her future husband. Kim Phuc currently lives in Canada.
In October 1968, this photograph became known throughout the world. Two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, won gold and bronze medals for the United States in the 200-meter dash at the Mexico City Olympics. During the playing of the US anthem, they stood with their heads bowed and their hands raised, thus protesting the plight of the black population in the US.
A public protest against discrimination against blacks caused a scandal in the circles of official America; both athletes were quickly expelled from the Olympic team.
One of the best actresses in the history of cinema, Marilyn Monroe, during a break during filming.
Alfred Eisenstadt, a photographer for Life magazine, walked through the square, where there were many soldiers and sailors returning from the war. He noticed a sailor who kissed all the women indiscriminately. When a stunned sailor literally tied up a young nurse, the photographer could not stand it and took a photo that is now known throughout the world as “Unconditional Surrender.”
2006 FIFA World Cup final. In the last minutes of the game, the hope of the French team, Zinedine Zidane, punches Italian Marco Materazzi in the chest. It is not known for certain what Marco Materazzi said to Zidane (who clearly did not live up to the expectations of the French fans), but this gave Zidane a reason to take his anger out on his opponent for a not very successful match. Zinedine Zidane's magnificent career ended with him being sent off.
Atomic mushroom over Nagasaki.
Patterson-Gimlin's 1968 documentary film Bigfoot, is still the only clear photographic evidence of the existence of relict hominids. At the same time, there are a considerable number of images of very low quality that are not suitable for scientific analysis. The authenticity of the shooting is very doubtful, but nevertheless this photograph is known all over the world.
United Press International photographer Kyochi Sawada took this photo on February 24, 1966. Tan Binh, South Vietnam. The American military drags the body of a Viet Cong soldier with an armored personnel carrier.
Photographer Richard Drew calls this image "the most famous photograph that no one has seen." It depicts a man jumping from the burning World Trade Center tower to his death on September 11, 2001.
“On that day, which, more than any other day in history, was captured on cameras and film, the only taboo, by common consent, was the pictures of people jumping from windows” - words of Tom Junod, Esquire magazine
The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 was planned and carried out by the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. Four groups of terrorists hijacked four planes, two of which rammed the World Trade Center towers, one crashed into the Pentagon, and one did not reach its target, crashing to the ground due to opposition from the plane's passengers, who learned about the planes that collided with the skyscrapers.
Winston Churchill in this photo is scowling not at the Nazis, but at the photographer Yosuf Karsh, who snatched the cigar straight from the great politician's mouth to give the politician an appearance more befitting the situation of Great Britain in early 1941. It turned out well. Before us is one of the most famous images of Winston Churchill.
Photograph by Pablo Picasso. Picasso himself suggested the plot to the photographer Duvanoushi.
Alberto Korda took this photo at a rally in 1960. The living legend of the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, was captured in the frame. Under Fidel Castro, Che Guevara became a minister, and a bright future lay ahead. Instead, he went to Bolivia to bring the light of revolution to the local peasants. They did not appreciate the works of Che Guevara and gave his location to the soldiers, who killed the revolutionary. Well, the photograph had a different fate; it is considered the most replicated in the history of photography.
Three American girls gossip in an alley in the Spanish city of Seville. For a long time, a postcard with this image enjoyed great success in the United States.
Photographer Robert Jackson captured the last moment of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. There were people everywhere wanting to tear apart the killer, Robert Jackson took another photo and while the flash was charging, a shot was fired. The photographer captured the moment the trigger was pulled.
Here is a photograph of the Titanic and the iceberg that killed it. In maritime history, there have been tragedies with a large number of victims, but the Titanic set off on its first voyage, it was considered unsinkable and the best ship of its time. And yet, on April 15, 1912, he drowned and is still the embodiment of carelessness, irresponsibility and arrogance.
March 31, 2003. An Najaw, Iraq. A man tries to ease the suffering of his son in a prison for prisoners of war.
Photographer Stephen McCury took this photo in an Afghan refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in 1985. Soviet helicopters destroyed the village where the girl lived, her entire family died. Before getting to the refugee camp, the girl traveled alone for two weeks through the mountains. The photograph has become a National Geographic shrine and one of the most famous photographs of modern times.
Geniuses, it turns out, are people too! This became clear after the appearance of a photograph of the brilliant physicist Albert Einstein with his tongue hanging out. The correspondents tormented the genius so much with their requests to put on a cheerful smile on his face that he stuck his tongue out at them in despair. Thanks to this photo, we know Einstein not only as a brilliant physicist, but also as a great original.
November 22, 1963 went down in US history as one of its darkest days. President John F. Kennedy, along with his wife and Texas Governor John Connally, were traveling from the Dallas airport to the city center. More than 200 thousand city residents greeted the president. At some point the car slowed down, at that moment fatal shots were fired.
Photo of the Loch Ness Monster, 1934.
Photographer Robert Capa took this photograph at random, without looking through the viewfinder; it was the only photograph taken during the entire Republican attack. But the moment in the frame was the death of the Republican soldier Federico Borel Garcia. The photo caused a huge shock in society, and Robert Capa, at the age of 25, was called “The Greatest War Photographer in the World.”
The 1975 English Rugby Championship final was attended by the Queen and her entourage and a host of politicians. And then a naked man runs out onto the field and takes a “lap of honor” around the stadium. Her Majesty fainted, and the runner was imprisoned for 3 months.
During the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops, Joseph Goebbels, the main ideologist of fascism, poisoned six of his children and his wife, and then took the poison himself. Goebbels's corpse, according to his dying order, was burned. This photo shows what is left of Goebbels. The photograph was taken on May 2, 1945 in the building of the Imperial Chancellery by Major Vasily Krupennikov.
Chechnya, May 1995. A boy looks out the back window of a bus carrying refugees fleeing fighting between Chechen separatists and Russian troops.
The photograph won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and greatly changed the way ordinary Americans viewed the Vietnam War. But the killed Viet Cong was not an innocent lamb. He was the captain of the North Vietnamese "revenge warriors" and on that day he and his subordinates personally killed many unarmed civilians.
This photo greatly spoiled the life of the South Vietnamese general Nguyen Ngoc Lon, in whose hands there was a pistol. They refused to treat him in an Australian military hospital; after moving to the United States, a campaign was launched against him for his immediate deportation; the restaurant he opened in Virginia was constantly attacked by vandals.
The inscription above the entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz reads: “Work makes you free.” Several million people read it while passing under the arch depicted in the photograph, and only a few thousand were lucky enough to survive. No place on Earth is so saturated with pain, suffering and despair as these several thousand hectares of Polish Silesia.
Banner of Victory over the Reichstag. Evgeny Khaldey, 1945. Despite the end of the fighting, hoisting the banner over the Reichstag was a risky business. Single Nazi fanatics repeatedly knocked down the banners with targeted fire.
US Marines plant the US flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. The highest point of the island of Iwo Jima was for a long time the scene of bloody battles; the first time the American flag was hoisted on it was when the Japanese resistance in this part of the island was not completely broken. In the picture we can see the flag being reinstalled; the picture became one of the symbols of the US victory in the Pacific War.
Japanese resistance on the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa was desperate and the Americans suffered heavy losses. Analysts calculated that with such opposition, the capture of the two main Japanese islands would cost the American Marines more than a million lives. These calculations became a death sentence for the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This photograph shows one of the last cases of lynching in the United States. 1930: A mob of 10,000 hangs two black men for raping a white woman and murdering her boyfriend. There are a lot of happy faces and it's hard to blame them for that (unless black people are simply scapegoated, of course).
Photographs by war photojournalist Robert Capa are already on our list; this time the brave photographer took part in the landing of the Allied forces in Normandy, with only a camera as his weapon. On the morning of June 6, 1944, Capa, along with the leading elements of the Marines, set foot on the shores of Normandy, came under fire and was forced to dive underwater to save his life.
That day, the photographer shot 4 films, but the laboratory assistant, developing the films, was in too much of a hurry to be in time for the printing of the latest issue of Life magazine and ruined them. Only 11 frames survived, and those were damaged. But it was this marriage that gave the surviving photographs their famous surrealism.
This kiss became the first photograph to be universally recognized in America. The photo was taken in a public place and the photographer was allegedly put on trial for voyeurism. They say that the man captured in the photo admitted that the photographer saw their kiss, but did not have time to take a photo and asked to repeat it.
The photo was taken a couple of years before the start of the Great Depression. The shelves are full of goods, people have money to buy.
In April 2004, CBS aired a story about the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. The story featured photographs that were published in media outlets around the world. The effect was such that a couple of weeks later the American command expressed its readiness to publicly apologize for the inappropriate actions of the military personnel.
According to the prisoners' testimony, they were raped, forced to eat from toilets, ridden on horseback, beaten, and subjected to electric shocks.
The girl in the photo is called Teresa, she grew up in a German concentration camp. When she was asked to draw a house, she drew barbed wire... David Seymour, 1948.
On September 7, 1996, the car in which famous rapper Tupac Shakur was driving was shot up in Las Vegas. 4 bullets hit the artist, and after 6 days in critical condition he died. The murder was never solved.
Genetic engineering works wonders. In the photo you can see a mouse that has grown a human ear on its back.
Lina Medina is the youngest mother in medical history. She gave birth to a boy at the age of 5 years and 7 months via caesarean section ( similar case took place in Russia as well). Initially, Lina’s parents decided that the girl had some kind of tumor and brought her to the hospital, where the true state of affairs became clear. By this time, Lina was 7 months pregnant. The born child weighed 2.7 kg. and grew up healthy. Only at the age of 10 did he learn that Lina was not his older sister, but his mother. The child's father remains unknown.
Dolly the Sheep. The first living creature artificially born by cloning from the cell of another adult animal. Lived for 6 years. Since then, experiments with cloning have been carried out repeatedly, but the animals born have always had much more health problems than animals born using the good old traditional method of reproducing their own kind.
Golden Lebanese youth on an excursion in the bombed areas of the city. Spencer Platt August 15, 2006
Uganda. Hungry boy and missionary. 1980 Mike Wells
Death of a Nazi functionary and his family. Vienna, 1945. Author - Evgeny Khaldey. The fascist shot his wife, son and daughter, and then shot himself.
Famine in Sudan. Pulitzer Prize for 1994. The photo was taken in 1993 by Kevin Carter in a village in Sudan that had been wiped out by famine. Kevin Carter flew to Sudan to film scenes of famine. He photographed many people who died of hunger and a little away from the extinct village he discovered this girl. A vulture sat next to her and waited for her to die. Kevin took a photo and then cried for a long time.
Kevin Carter died the same year he won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo. His mental health was undermined.
Consequences of freezing rain. Zurich, Switzerland
Photographer Malcolm Brown received a phone call asking him to be in certain time at one of the crossroads in Saigon. He came. Soon a car drove up there and several Buddhist monks got out. One of them sat in the lotus position, holding matches in his hands. The others began to pour gasoline on him. Then the sitting monk struck a match and turned into a flaming torch. The burning Buddhist did not make a sound.
It was a protest against the oppression of Buddhist monks in Vietnam.
The beginning of the Second World War. Poland, September 1, 1939. German troops cross the Polish border.
Death photograph of Princess Diana. For 10 years, no one could dare to publish this photo. And with his appearance, the word “paparazzi” became a dirty word. The person who took this photo was accused of not trying to help. He was taking photographs.
Former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko is dying in London from polonium poisoning. Who did this? Who ordered it?
Discuss at home 4A collection of iconic photographs from the last 100 years that demonstrate
the grief of loss and the triumph of the human spirit...
An Australian man kisses his Canadian girlfriend. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup.
Three sisters, three “segments” of time, three photos.
Two legendary captains Pele and Bobby Moore exchange jerseys as a sign of mutual respect. FIFA World Cup, 1970.
1945: Petty Officer Graham Jackson plays "Goin' Home" at President Roosevelt's funeral on April 12, 1945.
1952. 63-year-old Charlie Chaplin.
Eight-year-old Christian accepts the flag during a memorial service for his father. Who was killed in Iraq just weeks before he was due to return home.
A veteran near the T34-85 tank, in which he fought during the Great Patriotic War.
A Romanian child hands a balloon to a police officer during protests in Bucharest.
Police Captain Ray Lewis was arrested for his involvement in the 2011 Wall Street protests.
A monk stands next to an elderly man who died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.
A dog named "Leao" sits for two days at the grave of his owner, who died in terrible landslides.
Rio de Janeiro, January 15, 2011.
African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their black-gloved fists in a gesture of solidarity. Olympic Games, 1968.
Jewish prisoners at the moment of their release from the camp. 1945
The funeral of President John F. Kennedy took place on November 25, 1963, John F. Kennedy Jr.'s birthday.
Footage of John Kennedy Jr. saluting his father's coffin was broadcast around the world.
Christians protect Muslims during prayer. Egypt, 2011.
A North Korean man, right, waves from a bus to a tearful South Korean after a family reunion near Mount Kumgang, October 31, 2010. They were separated by the 1950-53 war.
A dog met its owner after the tsunami in Japan. 2011.
"Wait for Me, Dad" is a photograph of the British Columbia Regiment marching. Five-year-old Warren "Whitey" Bernard ran from his mother to his father, Private Jack Bernard, shouting "Wait for me, Daddy." The photograph became widely known, was published in Life, hung in every school in British Columbia during the war, and was used in war bond issues.
Priest Luis Padillo and a soldier wounded by a sniper during the uprising in Venezuela.
A mother and son in Concord, Alabama, near their home, which was completely destroyed by a tornado. April, 2011.
A guy looks at a family album he found in the rubble of his old house after the Sichuan earthquake.
4-month-old girl after the Japanese tsunami.
French citizens as the Nazis enter Paris during World War II.
Soldier Horace Greasley confronts Heinrich Himmler while inspecting the camp in which he was imprisoned. Surprisingly, Greasley left the camp many times to meet a German girl with whom he was in love.
A fireman gives water to a koala during forest fires. Australia 2009.
Father of his deceased son, at the 9/11 memorial. During the tenth annual ceremonies, on the site of the World Trade Center.
Jacqueline Kennedy taking the oath of Lyndon Johnson as President of the United States. Immediately after the death of her husband.
Tanisha Blevin, 5, holds the hand of Hurricane Katrina survivor Nita Lagarde, 105.
A girl, in temporary isolation to detect and clean up radiation, looks at her dog through the glass. Japan, 2011.
Journalists Yuna Lee and Laura Ling, who were arrested in North Korea and sentenced to hard labor for 12 years, reunited with their families in California. After successful diplomatic intervention by the US.
A mother meeting with her daughter after serving in Iraq.
Young pacifist Jane Rose Kasmir, with a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon.
During a protest against the Vietnam War. 1967
"The Man Who Stopped the Tanks"...
An iconic photograph of an unknown rebel who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks. Tiananmen 1989
Harold Vittles hears for the first time in his life - the doctor has just installed a hearing aid for him.
Helen Fisher kisses the hearse carrying the body of her 20-year-old cousin, Private Douglas Halliday.
US Army troops land ashore during D-Day. Normandy, June 6, 1944.
World War II prisoner released Soviet Union, met with my daughter.
The girl sees her father for the first time.
A Sudan People's Liberation Army soldier at a rehearsal for the Independence Day parade.
Greg Cook hugs his lost dog after he was found. Alabama, after the March 2012 tornado.
Photo taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission. 1968
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 on December 28 last year. The photo was taken during an operation in America.
The first reaction is to recoil in horror. It looks like a close-up of some terrible incident. And then you notice, in the very center of the photo, a tiny hand grasping the surgeon's finger.
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 the spinal surgery required to save the baby from severe 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.
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
“On that day, which, more than any other day in history, was captured on camera and film,” Tom Junod later wrote in Esquire, “the only taboo, by common consent, was the pictures of people jumping from windows.” Five years later, Richard Drew's Falling Man remains a terrible artifact of the day that should have changed everything, but didn't.
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 terrible 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 Ut 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, when the girl was studying at medical university, the Vietnamese government found her, and Kim's image has been used for propaganda purposes ever since. “I was under constant control. I wanted to die, this photo haunted me,” says Kim. She later managed to escape to Cuba 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.
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 came there with a reporter from the New York Times. Soon a car pulled up and several Buddhist monks got out. Among them is Thich Quang Duc, who sat in the lotus position with a box of matches in his hands, while others began to pour gasoline on him. Thich Quang Duc 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 Duc wrote a letter to the then head of the Vietnamese government asking him to stop the repression of Buddhists, stop the detention of monks and give them the right to practice and spread their religion, but received no response
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 covered the city, killing three thousand people that same night, and another 15 thousand in the next month. In total, more than 150,000 people were affected by the release of toxic waste, and this does not include children born after 1984
Surgeon Jay Vacanti of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is working with microengineer Jeffrey Borenstein to develop a technique for growing an artificial liver. In 1997, he managed to grow a human ear on the back of a mouse using cartilage cells.
The development of technology that allows culturing the liver is extremely important. In the UK alone, there are 100 people on the transplant waiting list, and according to the British Liver Trust, the majority of patients die before receiving a transplant.
A photo taken by reporter Alberto Korda at a rally in 1960, in which Che Guevara is also visible between a palm tree and someone's nose, claims to be the most circulated photo in the history of photography.
The most famous photograph of Stephen McCurry, taken by him in a refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Soviet helicopters destroyed the village of a young refugee, her entire family was killed, and the girl traveled for two weeks in the mountains before getting to the camp. 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
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. The story featured photographs that were published in The New Yorker magazine a few days later. This has become the most loud scandal around the American presence in Iraq.
In early May 2004, the leadership of the US Armed Forces admitted that some of its torture methods did not comply with the Geneva Convention and announced its readiness to publicly apologize.
According to the testimony of a number of prisoners, American soldiers raped them, rode them on horseback, and forced them to fish food out of prison toilets. In particular, the prisoners said: “They forced us to walk on all fours, like dogs, and yelp. We had to bark like dogs, and if you didn’t bark, you were hit in the face without any mercy. After that, they threw us in cells, took away our mattresses, spilled water on the floor and forced us to sleep in this slurry without removing the hoods from our heads. And they were constantly photographing it all,” “One American said he would rape me. He drew a woman on my back and forced me to stand in a shameful position, holding my own scrotum in my hands.”
Poland - girl Teresa, who grew up in a concentration camp, draws a "house" on the board. 1948. David Seymou
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (often referred to simply as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States of America. According to the official version, responsibility for these attacks lies with the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda.
On the morning of that day, nineteen terrorists allegedly associated with al-Qaeda, divided into four groups, hijacked four scheduled passenger airliners. Each group had at least one member who had completed basic flight training. The invaders flew two of these planes into the World War II towers. Shopping Center, American Airlines Flight 11 into WTC 1, and United Airlines Flight 175 into WTC 2, causing both towers to collapse, causing severe damage to adjacent structures.
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Photograph by Elliott Erwitt 1950
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 he and his henchmen shot and killed many unarmed civilians. 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
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.”
The photograph showing the hoisting of the Victory Banner over the Reichstag spread throughout the world. Evgeny Khaldey, 1945
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 even dream of.”
Kevin Carter won 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...
November 13, 1985. Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia. The mountain snow melts, and a 50-meter-thick mass of mud, earth and water literally wipes out everything in its path. The death toll exceeded 23,000 people. The disaster received a huge response around the world, thanks in part to a photograph of a little girl named Omaira Sanchez. She found herself trapped, neck-deep in the slush, her legs caught in the concrete structure of the house. Rescuers tried to pump out the mud and free the child, but in vain. The girl survived for three days, after which she became infected with several viruses at once. As journalist Cristina Echandia, who was nearby all this time, recalls, Omaira sang and communicated with others. She was scared and constantly thirsty, but she behaved very courageously. On the third night she began to hallucinate.
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 World War II...
