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A collection of iconic photographs from the past 100 years that showcase
the grief of loss and the triumph of the human spirit...

An Australian kisses his Canadian girlfriend. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup.

Three sisters, three "lengths" 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 a few weeks before he was due to return home.

A veteran near the T34-85 tank, on 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 arrested for participating in the Wall Street protests in 2011.

A monk 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 Tommy Smith and John Carlos raise their black-gloved fists in solidarity. Olympic Games, 1968.

Jewish prisoners at the time of their release from the camp. 1945

The funeral of President John F. Kennedy, which took place on November 25, 1963, the birthday of John F. Kennedy Jr.
Footage of JFK 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 weeping South Korean man after a family reunion at Mount Kumgang October 31, 2010. They were separated by the 1950-53 war.

The dog met with his owner after the tsunami in Japan. 2011.

"Wait for me, daddy" is a photograph of a march by the British Columbia Regiment. Five-year-old Warren "Whitey" Bernard ran from his mother to his father, Private Jack Bernard, yelling "Wait for me, Dad." 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 an 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 earthquake in Sichuan.

4-month-old girl after the Japanese tsunami.

French citizens at the entrance of the Nazis to 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 the German girl he was in love with.

A fireman gives water to a koala during wildfires. Australia 2009.

The father of the deceased son, at the 9/11 memorial. During the tenth annual ceremonies, on the grounds of the World Trade Center.

Jacqueline Kennedy at the swearing-in 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, who is 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 12 years hard labor, have been reunited with their families in California. After successful US diplomatic intervention.

Meeting mother with her daughter, after serving in Iraq.

Young pacifist Jane Rose Casmere, with a flower on the bayonets of the Pentagon guards.
During a protest against the Vietnam War. 1967

"The Man Who Stopped the Tanks"...
An iconic photo of an unknown rebel standing in front of a column of Chinese tanks. Tiananmen, 1989

Harold Whittles hears for the first time in his life - the doctor has just installed a hearing aid for him.

Helen Fisher kisses a hearse carrying the body of her 20-year-old cousin, Private Douglas Halliday.

US Army troops making landfall during D-Day. Normandy, 6 June 1944.

World War II prisoner released by the Soviet Union meets his daughter.
The girl sees her father for the first time.

A Sudan People's Liberation Army soldier during a rehearsal for the Independence Day parade.

Greg Cook hugging his lost dog after he was found. Alabama, after a tornado in March 2012.

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 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 pen in the photo belongs to a baby who was due to be born on December 28 last year. The photo was taken during an operation in America.

The 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. Therefore, this is 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, before the very spinal surgery that was 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 time, the mother may choose to have an abortion.

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 Trade Center, who jumped out of the window to her death on September 11
“On the day that was captured on camera and film more than any other day in history,” Tom Junod later wrote in Esquire, “the only taboo by common consent was taking pictures of people jumping out of windows.” Five years later, Richard Drew's "falling man" remains a terrible artifact of that day that should have changed everything but didn't.

Photographer Nick Yut took a photo of a Vietnamese girl running away from the exploding napalm. It was this picture that made the whole world think about the war in Vietnam.
A photo of 9-year-old girl Kim Fook on June 8, 1972 went down in history forever. Kim first saw this picture 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 can't forget the sound of the bombs falling. A soldier tried to help and doused her with water, unaware that this would make the burns worse. Photographer Nick Yut 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 he decided that the world should see this picture.

The photo was later named the best photo of the 20th century. Nick Yut tried to keep Kim from becoming too popular, but in 1982, when the girl was studying at a medical university, the Vietnamese government found her, and since then Kim's image has been used for propaganda purposes. “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 couldn't run away from this photo and decided to use it and her fame to fight for peace.

Malcolm Brown, a 30-year-old photographer (Associated Press) from New York, received a phone call and was asked to be at a certain intersection in Saigon the next morning, as something very important is about to happen. He went there with a reporter from the New York Times. soon a car drove up, several Buddhist monks got out of it. Among them is Thich Quang Duc, who sat in a lotus position with a box of matches in his hands, while the rest began to pour gasoline on him. Thich Quang Duc struck a match and turned into a living torch. Unlike the weeping crowd watching him burn, he didn't utter 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 profess and spread their religion, but did not receive a response

On December 3, 1984, the Indian city of Bhopal was hit by the largest man-made disaster in human history. A giant poisonous cloud, released into the atmosphere by an American pesticide factory, covered the city, killing 3,000 people that same night, and 15,000 more in the coming 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 artificial livers. In 1997, he managed to grow a human ear on the back of a mouse using cartilage cells.

The development of a technique that allows culturing the liver is extremely relevant. In the UK alone, there are 100 people on the waiting list for transplants, and according to the British Liver Trust, most patients die before they get a transplant.

A picture 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 widely disseminated photograph in history

The most famous photograph of Steve McCurry, taken by him in a refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistani border. Soviet helicopters destroyed the village of a young refugee, her whole family died, and before getting to the camp, the girl made a two-week journey in the mountains. After being published in June 1985, this photograph becomes a National Geographic icon. Since then, this image has been used everywhere - from tattoos to rugs, which turned the photo 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 inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison by a group of American soldiers. The story showed photographs that were published in The New Yorker a few days later. This became the loudest scandal around the presence of Americans in Iraq.
In early May 2004, the leadership of the US Armed Forces admitted that some of the methods of torture were not in accordance with the Geneva Convention and announced their readiness to publicly apologize.

According to the testimony of a number of prisoners, American soldiers raped them, rode them, forced them to fish food from prison toilets. In particular, the inmates said: “They made us walk on all fours like dogs and yelp. We had to bark like dogs, and if you didn't bark, then you were beaten in the face without any pity. After that, they left us in the cells, took away the mattresses, poured water on the floor and forced us to sleep in this slush without removing the hoods from our heads. And all this was constantly photographed”, “One American said that he would rape me. He drew a woman on my back and forced me to stand in a shameful position, to hold my own scrotum in my hands.

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

The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 (often referred to simply as 9/11) was a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks that took place in the United States of America. According to the official version, the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda is responsible for these attacks.
On the morning of that day, nineteen terrorists, allegedly related to Al-Qaeda, divided into four groups, hijacked four scheduled passenger airliners. Each group had at least one member who completed basic flight training. The invaders sent two of these aircraft into the towers of the World Trade 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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Photo of 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 completely changed American attitudes towards what was happening in Vietnam. Despite the obviousness of the image, in fact, the photograph is not as unambiguous as it seemed to ordinary Americans, filled with sympathy for the executed. The fact is that the man in handcuffs is the captain of the Viet Cong "revenge warriors", and on this day he and his henchmen shot many unarmed civilians. General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, pictured left, has been haunted by his past all his life: he was refused treatment at an Australian military hospital, after moving to the US, he faced a massive campaign calling for his immediate deportation, the restaurant he opened in Virginia, every day was attacked by vandals. "We know who you are!" - this inscription haunted the general of the army all his life

Republican soldier Federico Borel Garcia is depicted in the face of death. The picture caused a huge uproar in society. The situation is absolutely unique. During the whole time of the attack, the photographer took only one picture, while he took it at random, without looking into the viewfinder, he did not look at all in the direction of the “model”. And this is one of the best, one of his most famous photographs. It was thanks to this picture that already in 1938 the newspapers called the 25-year-old Robert Cap "The Greatest War Photographer in the World"

The photo, which depicted the hoisting of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag, spread around the world. Yevgeny Khaldei, 1945

By the early summer of 1994, Kevin Carter (1960-1994) was at the height of his fame. He had just received the Pulitzer Prize, job offers from famous magazines poured in one after another. “Everyone congratulates me,” he wrote to his parents, “I can’t wait to meet you and show you my trophy. This is the highest recognition of my work, which I did not dare to dream of.

Kevin Carter won the 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. Tired of shooting people who died of starvation, he left the village in 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 picture of her, but suddenly a vulture vulture landed a few steps away. Very carefully, trying not to startle the bird, Kevin chose the best position and took a picture. 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. In the meantime, the girl apparently gained strength and went - more precisely crawled - further. And Kevin sat down near the tree and cried. He suddenly terribly wanted to hug his daughter ...

November 13, 1985. Eruption of the volcano Nevado del Ruiz - Colombia. Mountain snow melts, and a mass of mud, earth and water 50 meters thick literally wipes everything in its path from the face of the earth. The death toll exceeded 23,000 people. The disaster received a huge response around the world, thanks in part to a photo of a little girl named Omaira Sanchez. She was trapped, up to her neck in slush, her legs trapped in the concrete structure of the house. Rescuers tried to pump out the dirt and free the child, but in vain. The girl held on for three days, after which she became infected with several viruses at once. As journalist Christina Echandia, who was nearby all this time, recalls, Omaira sang and talked with others. She was frightened and constantly thirsty, but she was very courageous. On the third night, she began to hallucinate.

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995), a photographer working for Life magazine, strolled around the square photographing the kissers. 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 the desire to photograph did not appear. Suddenly he grabbed something white. I barely had time to raise the camera and take a picture 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...

Photographer today is one of the most popular and highly paid professions. If earlier, in the twentieth century, only a few were engaged in it, and it was easier to achieve great success, today you need to try hard before others notice you and your work. The vision of photography is important: a clear idea of how the subject and objects will look in the frame. You can learn this and develop a unique style only with time, and observation will help in this: studying the best works of recognized classics will help you understand in which direction you should move further in photography.

Learning to see your work even before pressing the shutter button will help a detailed analysis of the images of recognized masters of photography. So you can better understand in which direction you need to adjust your skills. The “golden” time of photography is considered to be the second half of the twentieth century, but we are convinced that there are talents in modern photography as well. The article will talk about professionals whose shots are forever included in the ratings of the best photo works - you should look at them with special care.

Henri Cartier Bresson

A photographer who has long become a classic in the genre of street photography and photorealism. His reports are still considered an example of how to work in this area - the master managed to become absolutely invisible while working, so that the subjects on his shots always looked as natural as possible. Henri studied as an artist, and this left a mark on his corporate style - some surrealism. The first exhibition was held in 1933 at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York.

The golden rule is that the only two compasses a photographer has at his disposal are his eyes. Any purely geometrical analysis, any reduction of a photograph to a bare scheme (and this is in the very nature of photography!) can only be done after the photograph has been taken, developed and printed.

The last day of distribution of gold by Kuomitang. Shanghai - China, 1949

Arthur Fellig (Vigi)

The great master of crime photography has always been the first on the scene of any New York incident - whether it was a petty brawl or a murder and fire. The photographer liked to work with the poor areas of the city, to study all aspects of their life. Even renowned filmmaker and photographer Stanley Kubrick learned from Vigi's work - in general, Felling's influence touched many talented people.

For me, photos are like pancakes. I have to get them while they're hot.

Girl polishing shoes, New York, 1960.

Irvine Penn

The man who revealed to us all the beauty of portrait photography and fashion shooting. He loved to work with representatives of various professions, photographing them in full working uniforms. In general, Penn was very fond of using in his works signature techniques invented by himself. For example, shooting stars in the corner of the room, using nondescript gray or whitish backgrounds.

If I look at any object for some time, the sight fascinates me. This is the curse of the photographer.

Marlene Dietrich, New York, 1948.

Diana Arbus

The woman photographer was distinguished by a special love for shooting deviant personalities and outcasts: among these were nudists, dwarfs, people with dementia, transvestites - all those from whom it is customary to look away when meeting. One of Diana's most famous photographs, the Identical Twins sold at auction for nearly half a million dollars.

There were and are an infinite number of things on earth. All individuals are different, everyone wants different things, everyone knows different things, everyone looks different. Everything that was on earth was different from the other. This is what I love - the differences, the uniqueness of each and the importance of life. I see something that seems miraculous, I see the divinity of ordinary things.

Puerto Rican woman with a mole, 1965

Mark Riboud

Probably, almost everyone has seen a picture of a hippie girl holding out a flower to soldiers with rifles. The Frenchman Marc Riboud, a photographer who is considered a genius of reportage photography, has traveled all over the world in search of interesting shots: his work from Vietnam and China is especially appreciated. Fine works can also be found from the territory of the USSR in the 60s: these are shots from the everyday life of ordinary Soviet citizens.

I have always been more moved by beauty than by violence or ugliness. It is a great happiness to be able to notice order in the world's disorder, to find rhymes and rhythms through the camera's viewfinder.

Salvador Dali, Cadaqués, Spain, 1963

Elliott Erwitt

A French photographer with Russian roots, working in America, was very fond of making his work absurd and provocative. The master looks at our non-trivial world with a special look that stands out from the crowd of other photographers - here irony, frivolity and humor are intertwined together and create memorable masterpieces.

What I love about any - young, old, middle-aged, it doesn't matter, photographers - is when there is a feeling that they are interested in human comedy ...

New Jersey, 1971

Richard Avedon

A photographer whose stunning black-and-white portraits feature every star, from John Lennon to Audrey Hepburn. His manner can be described as concise and cuts off everything superfluous in the picture: you will see only a person and his gaze, as if turned right at you. He began taking photographs as a small child: there is a legend that nine-year-old Richard caught the great composer Sergei Rachmaninov in his lens.

I made my list of "do not": do not look for the best light, do not compose, do not give in to the temptation of eloquent poses. And all these “don’t” lead me to the “must”. To the white background, to the person I'm interested in, and to what's going on between us.

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William Eugene Smith

The photographer became famous thanks to his pictures of the Second World War wars - the photojournalist was able to work both with heavy plots of military operations, and with sentimental situations from the life of ordinary people. The photographer loved to use 35mm cameras and refused to work in publications where shooting was supposed to be done on medium format. He worked as a documentary photographer for Life magazine.

I have not taken a single photo - good or bad - without paying for it with peace of mind.

Guy Bourdain

More than 25 years have passed since the death of the master, and his works are still relevant and continue to be copied. Many take an example from Guy Bourdin's photographs - after all, it was he who showed how interesting fashion photography can be. Absolutely creatively free - he created frames filled with both surreal images and their eroticism. His pictures were adored by Vogue.

Yes, he was quite unusual, strange and had a special sense of humor, not like everyone else, but he was also always polite, respectful, well-mannered, calm and behaved as if he came from a very good family ... He always asked me whether I'm hungry, whether I'm cold or hot, and always tried to please me. He said that he did not like to shoot hungry models. - Joan Bennett, Guy Bourdin's model.

Alexander Rodchenko

A true revolutionary and pioneer in Soviet photography, advertising and design. He was one of the first masters of constructivism, working at the junction with the avant-garde. Because of his bold views on art, he was expelled from the Union of Artists - the photographer did not want to follow the style of socialist realism and moved in his own direction. Filmed by Lilya Brik, Vladimir Mayakovsky.

In order to teach a person to see from new points, it is necessary to shoot ordinary, well-known objects from completely unexpected points and in unexpected positions, and to shoot new objects from different points, giving a complete picture of the object.

Stairs. 1930

Patrick Demarchelier

The most famous fashion photographer who made the fashion genre more complex and sophisticated. Thanks to Patrick, photos in fashion magazines have become less glamorous and pompous. He owns perhaps the most famous photo of Princess Diana, and his work graces the covers of the best magazines.

Basically I learned photography... just taking pictures, taking lots of pictures. I have made many mistakes, but they are the ones that teach the best. The work of a photographer is like a sport: you have to train every day.

Kate Moss, New York, 1992

Annie Leibovitz

One of the most important photographers of the second half of the twentieth century and the present. She not only photographed, but immersed herself in the life of a model. ridding their viewers of hyperglamour. Her shots are simple, ironic, witty - John Lennon coiled around Yoko Ono; Whoopi Goldberg bathing in milk.

When I say that I want to take a picture of someone, it really means that I want to get to know them better. Everyone I know, I photograph.

Cate Blanchett, 2004

Mick Rock

A photographer with a last name that explains a lot: this man took pictures of all the iconic rock musicians and was even listed as the staff photographer of David Bowie himself. Mick Rock filmed the seventies and their heroes - in journalistic circles he was considered the person who managed to do this most fully.

This is a 1974 London promotional party before the release of Sheer Heart Attack. As you know, in those days, I had already made several covers for Queen albums and took a whole bunch of photos. And they obviously had a good time. At that time I often filmed parties, but only with the participation of those with whom I already worked or was friends. I mean, I'm too old to be paparazzi, so I only took pictures of people who would be comfortable with me being around.

Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol, NYC 1978

Sebastian Salgado

A photographer who captures reality in such a way that it begins to seem somehow fantastic. Based on his work, the film “Salt of the Earth” was shot, and the master depicts anomalies, poverty, and environmental problems. Even such terrible scenes in the master's frame begin to truly fascinate with their unusual beauty.

Photography is much more than just taking pictures. It's a way of life. This is what you feel, what you want to express, this is your ideology and ethics. It is a language that allows you to travel through time.

Waura Indians fishing in Lake Puilanga near their settlement. Headwaters of the Xingu River. State of Mato Grosso. Brazil. 2005.

Anton Corbijn

One of the most famous rock photographers and filmmakers, who became famous for his video clips and photo shoots for such monsters of music as U2 and Depeche Mode. His photographs are slightly “noisy” and blurred, but at the same time very original. According to many experts, it was Anton who made the best shots for such rock bands as Nirvana and Metallica.

I listen to people. I don't just use them as a model, but I try to understand what they want. Therefore, when you look at a photograph, you feel a living person in it.

Stephen Meisel

Fashion photographer who contributed to Madonna's cult book "Sex" and became especially famous after it. It was he who introduced the world to such top models as Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Amber Valletta.

Everything you grew up with becomes part of your aesthetic vision.

Italian Vogue, Los Angeles, 2000.

Martin Parr

A photographer who paid special attention to the most ordinary life situations, which in his hands turned into bright, saturated shots, the shades of which would be invisible to a simple layman. He loved to work with the British social classes, used the art of satire in photography.

I turn reality into fiction.

Hungary. Budapest. Therapeutic baths of Széchenyi 1997

Richard Kern

Scandalous, provocative and bold - this underground photographer captured the themes of rock and roll, sex and human freedom in all its manifestations. The theme of violence can be traced in his works, and such ambiguous personalities as Sasha Gray and Gee-Gee Allin became the heroes of the pictures. Published in major men's magazines, and also shoots videos for Marilyn Manson.

It's just that young photographers shoot the same thing. Most of them are just boring people. They send me a lot of works, and it's good if one out of twenty is worth something. There are five schools in New York alone, each producing two hundred photographers a year.

Sally Mann

For many years he has been photographing in the southern United States, preferring to work only in the summer, devoting the rest of the months to developing shots. She became famous for her black and white photographs, especially portraits of her family and children. Simple plots from life away from the bustle of the city, independence from social rules are the main motives of the work.

Memory is our main tool, an inexhaustible source. Photographs open doors to the past, but also provide a glimpse into the future.

We have already talked about people's predilection for deriving all sorts of ratings and top lists, on the "best", "great", "famous", etc. We talked about and. Today we will talk about the most, in our opinion, the most influential photographers of all time. Let's talk about ten photographers who have had the greatest influence on the development of photography as an art.

10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - Richard Avedon

In the first position of influential photographers is an American photographer - Richard Avedon (Richard Avedon). Avedon is an American fashion and portrait photographer who defined the American style, image, beauty and culture of the second half of the 20th century with his work. Avedon was the epitome of a modern photographer - charming and elegant. He easily mixed photographic genres and created successful, commercial, iconic, memorable images. He was the first to take a wide-format portrait, against a stark white background, using two images in one frame, allowing the portrait story to be told in one shot.

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10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - William Eugene Smith

American photojournalist William Eugene Smith continues the list of influential photographers. Smith was obsessed with his work, he refused to make any professional compromise. He went down in history with truthful, cruel and compromising black and white photographs of the Second World War. Member of the photo agency "". During the Second World War, he worked as a military photojournalist and correspondent. The author of amazing reportage black-and-white photographs.

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10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - Helmut Newton

On the third position, already known to us the German "seller of sex" Helmut Newton (Helmut Newton). Newton had an undeniable influence on the development of erotic photography, creating a powerful image of a woman. With his work, he defined the main canons of fashion photography. He was the first to use ring flash for fashion photography.

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10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - Irving Penn

This is followed by an American fashion photographer, portraitist Irving Penn (Irving Penn). It is believed that every photographic portrait or symbolic still life owes something to Pen. He was the first photographer to make the most of the simplicity of black and white in photography. Considered a leading genius photographer for Vogue magazine.

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10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - Guy Louis Bourdin

On the fifth position is the French photographer Guy Bourdin (GuyLouis Bourdin). No fashion photographer has been more copied by others than Bourdain. He was the first photographer to create storytelling complexity in his work. Many epithets are needed to characterize the work of a photographer. They are sensual, provocative, shocking, exotic, surreal, sometimes sinister. And Bourdain brought all this to fashion photography.

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10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - Henri Cartier-Bresson

The ten influential photographers are continued by the founder of the greatest photographic agency "", a French documentary photographer, the father of documentary photography and photojournalism, in general, the greatest. One of the first who began to use 35 mm film when shooting. Creator " The Decisive Moment", the so-called "decisive moment". He believed that a real photograph cannot be subjected to any change. He worked on the creation of the "Street photography" genre, in which he defended the principles of sudden, non-staged photography. He left behind a great photographic legacy, which today is educational material for anyone who wants to become a professional documentary filmmaker and photojournalist.

10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - Diane Arbus

The only female photographer on our list is an American photographer. During her short, fast-paced life, Arbus was able to say so much that her photographs are still the subject of controversy and discussion. She was the first to pay close attention to people outside the norm, per se.

10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - Elliott Erwitt

This is followed by French advertising photographer, documentary photographer Elliott Erwitt. Elliott is one of Henri Cartier-Breson's "decisive moment" masters. Member of the photographic agency Magnum Photos. He has an unsurpassed sense of humor with which he approaches the creation of every photograph of everyday life. Master of documentary street photography. Big dog lover.

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10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - Walker Evans

On the ninth position of our influential ten is an American photographer, known for a series of works dedicated to the Great Depression - Walker Evans (Walker Evans). He is considered a chronicler of American life, who created order and beauty in the frame through composition.

10 Most Influential Photographers of All Time - Martin Parr

Rounding out the top 10 most influential photographers is British photographer and photojournalist Martin Parr. A member of the photographic agency Magnum Photos, Martine Parr had a major influence on the development of documentary photography in the late 20th century. Unlike classic black and white genre photography, Parr uses intense colors, thereby elevating the ordinary everyday shot to the level of art. Considered the leading chronicler of daily life in England.

The profession of a photographer today is one of the most massive. Perhaps it would be easier here to become the best of the best in the early or middle of the 20th century. Today, when every second or third photographer, well, at least considers himself as such, the criteria for a good photo, 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 could follow. We have prepared for you a list of the 20 best photographers in the world, which will be 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 inseparable unity in his work.

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.

And he is also the author of the famous phrase “Work for life, not for palaces, temples, cemeteries and museums.”

Henri Cartier Bresson

Classic street photography. A native of Chantelupe, department of the Seine and Marne in France. He started as an artist painting in the genre of "surrealism", but his achievements are not limited to this. In the early 1930s, when the famous Leica fell into his hands, he fell in love with photography forever.

Already in the 33rd year, an exhibition of his work was held at Julien Levy, a gallery in New York. He worked with director Jean Renoir. Bresson's street reporting is especially valued.

Especially contemporaries noted his talent to remain invisible to the photographed.

Therefore, the unstaged, reliable nature of his photographs catches the eye. Like a real 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 outstanding photographs of such bands as: Depeche Mode, U2, Nirvana, Joy Division and others were made by Anton. He is also the album designer for U2. Plus has shot videos for a number of bands and performers, including: Coldplay, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, country music legend Johnny Cash, thrash metal mastodons Metallica, singer Roxette.

Critics note the originality of Corbijn's style, which, however, has a host of imitators.

Mick Rock

There are paparazzi photographers who invade the personal lives of stars without permission and are ruthlessly thrown out of there. And there are people like Mick Rock.

What does it mean? Well, how can I tell you. Remember David Bowie? Here is Mick - the only one of the people with a lens at the ready, who was in 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 the period of Bowie's work from 1972 to 1973, when Ziggy Stardust had not yet returned to his planet.

In that period and before, David and his associates worked hard on the image of a real star, which as a result became a reality. On a budget, Mick's work is inexpensive but impressive. “Everything was created on very small means with smoke and mirrors,” Mick recalled.

Georgy Pinkhasov

An original photographer of his generation, a member of the Magnum agency, a graduate of VGIK. It was George 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 shot. They say that he did it 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 George Pinkhasov is "Tbilisi baths". George notes the important role of chance in art.

Annie Leibovitz

The most important name for our list of the best photographers. Annie has made immersing herself in 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 still didn’t know how to manage models, ask them to do what I need. I just measured the exposure and asked John to look into the lens for a second. And clicked...”

The result immediately hit the cover of Rolling Stone. The last photo shoot in Lennon's life was also held by her. The same photo in which a naked John curled up around Yoko Ono, dressed in all black. Who just didn’t get into the camera lens of Annie Leibovitz: pregnant Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg bathing in milk, Jack Nicholson playing golf in a dressing gown, Michelle Obama, Natalia Vodianova, Meryl Streep. Do not list all.

Sara Moon

Real name - Mariel Hadang. Born in Paris 1941, during the Vichy regime her family moved to England. Mariel started as a model, posing for various publications, then tried herself on the other side of the lens and got a taste.

One can note her sensitive work with models, since Sarah knew firsthand about their profession. Her works are distinguished by their special sensuality; Sarah's talent is especially sensitive to convey the femininity of her models.

In the 1970s, Sarah retired from modeling and turned to black and white fine art photography. In 1979 he shoots experimental films. Subsequently, she worked as a cameraman on the set of the film "Lulu", which will receive an award at the Venice Film Festival in 1987.

Sally Man

Another female photographer. A native of Lexington, Virginia. She almost never left her home. Since the 70s, it has been fundamentally working only in the South of the United States.

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, which depict members of her family - her husband and children.

The main thing that distinguishes her work is the simplicity of plots and interest in everyday life. Sally and her husband belong to the hippie generation, which has become their signature style of life: life away from the city, a vegetable garden, 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 see it in anomalies, misfortunes and environmental disasters.

Wim Wenders, the eminent German New Wave director, spent a quarter of a century researching the work of Salgado, resulting in the film Salt of the Earth, which won a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

It is considered a classic of the criminal genre in photography. During the period of his active work, not a single urban incident - from a fight to a murder, did not go unnoticed by Weegee.

He was ahead of his competitors, and sometimes kept up with the crime scene even earlier than the police. In addition to criminal topics, he specialized in reporting on the daily life of the slums of the metropolis.

His photographs formed the basis of Jules Dassin's Naked City noir, and Weegee is also mentioned in Zack Snyder's Watchmen. And the famous director Stanley Kubrick in his youth studied the art of photography with him. Check out the early films of the genius, they are definitely influenced by the Ouija aesthetic.

Irvine Penn

Master in the portrait genre. We can note a number of his favorite tricks: from shooting models in the corner of the room to using a plain white or gray background.

Irvine also liked to photograph representatives of various workers of the profession in their uniforms and with tools at the ready. The brother of the director of "New Hollywood" Arthur Penn, known for his "Bonnie and Clyde".

Diana Arbus

The name received at birth is Diana Nemerova. Her family emigrated from Soviet Russia in 1923 and settled in one of the New York neighborhoods.

Diana was distinguished by a craving for violating generally accepted norms and for committing 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, adding his wife to the cause. 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 feeble-minded. Also for nudity. You can learn more about Diana's personality by watching the film "Fur", where Nicole Kidman perfectly played her.

Evgeny Khaldei

A very important photographer for our list. Thanks to him, the key events of the first half of the 20th century were captured. As a teenager, he chose the path of a photojournalist.

Already at the age of 22, he was an employee of the TASS Photo Chronicle. He made reports about Stakhanov, captured the construction of the Dneproges. He worked as a war correspondent throughout the Great Patriotic War. Having traveled from Murmansk to Berlin with his trusty Leica camera, he took a number of photographs, thanks to which we can at least imagine military everyday life today.

The Potsdam Conference, the hoisting of the red banner over the Reichstag, the act of capitulation of Nazi Germany and other important events fell into the eye of his lens. In 1995, two years before his death, Yevgeny Khaldei received the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Mark Riboud

Reportage master. His first famous photograph, published in Life, is “Painter on the Eiffel Tower”. Recognized as a photography genius, Riboud had a modest personality.

He tried to remain invisible both to those photographed and to his admirers.

The most famous is the picture 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 photo artists 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 supplies his erotic works.

But his approach is far from the generally accepted glossy one. In his free time from photography, he shoots clips. Bands Kern has collaborated with include Sonic Youth and Marilyn Manson.

Thomas Morkes

Do you want peace, silence, and maybe desertion? Then this is one of the most suitable candidates. Tomas Morkes from the Czech Republic is a landscape photographer who has chosen the charm of autumn nature as his subject. These pictures have everything: romance, sadness, the triumph of withering.

One of the effects of Thomas' photographs is the desire to get away from the noise of the city into some such wilds and reflect on the Eternal.

Yuri Artyukhin

Considered the best wildlife photographer. He is a researcher at the Laboratory of Ornithology at the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Yuri is passionate about birds.

It was for photographs of birds that he was awarded (and more than once) the most various awards not only in Russia, but in the world.

Helmut Newton

How about the nude genre? An excellent, very subtle and delicate genre, which has its own masters.

Helmut became famous all over the world for his works. His unspoken motto was the expression "Sex sells", which means "sex helps to sell."

Laureate of the most prestigious competitions, including awards - the French "Order of Arts and Literature".

Ron Galella

Covering various areas of photography, one cannot fail to mention the pioneer of such a dubious and at the same time important genre for understanding the modern world as the 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 the stars when they are not ready for it in general.

Julia Roberts, Woody Allen, Al Pacino, Sophia Loren - this is not a complete list of those whom Ron arbitrarily caught. Once Marlon Brando got so angry at Ron that he knocked out several of his teeth on the move.

Guy Bourdain

One of the most important photographers who are 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, imitated photographers in the world. Erotic, surreal. Now - a quarter of a century after his death - more and more relevant and modern.

He published his first photographs in the mid-1950s. The photograph was, to put it mildly, defiant. A girl in an elegant hat against the backdrop of calf heads peering out of a butcher shop window. Over the next 32 years, Bourdain regularly supplied amusing shots to Vogue magazine. What distinguished him from many of his colleagues was that Bourdain was given complete creative freedom.

This section presents a large number of portfolios of famous, creative and best photographers of our time.

12-03-2018, 22:59

We offer you a selection of amazing works, after viewing which you will definitely have an idea about the shooting process and realism. A photographer named Mikhail Zagornatsky first picked up his own camera in 2011. I was self-taught in the process of learning photography. The main directions are conceptual and fine art photography. In recent projects, there are absolutely no elements of Photoshop.
The master likes to create his creations in real time, without piece additives. Before a new project, it takes a lot of time to prepare the right props and draw up a creative plan. The camera lens shows only true beauty.

7-03-2018, 20:14

If you ever visit Gloucestershire, be sure to visit the picturesque village of Bybury. A famous artist and singer named William Morris called this place the most amazing English village. Many tourists agree with this opinion to this day. The scenery of the village can be seen on the inside cover of a British passport.
The total population of the village is about six hundred people. For many centuries, an authentic atmosphere has been maintained, even despite the frequent arrivals of tourists. Baybury is a typical English village. Now the population is about 600 people. The river Koln flows through the territory of the village.

5-01-2018, 18:25

Today we want to present the work of a talented female photographer named Ann Guyer. Recently, she presented her original photo series. The main source of inspiration was pets and charming autumn leaf fall.
Ann began to be interested in the art of photography as a child. The girl watched her father, a photographer who created interesting work. But the final infatuation began about seven years ago. The primary source of inspiration was Cindy's first dog. You can see more amazing photos thanks to our today's article.

15-12-2017, 22:16

Today we will introduce you to the work of a young but very talented photographer named Craig Burrows. He photographs various flowers and plants using state-of-the-art UVIVF technology. All the subtleties of the process of creating new works are not exactly known. The master highlights the fluorescent glow in his work with the help of UV light. During the shooting process, UV radiation is blocked in the lens.
At the moment, Burrows has in his arsenal only individual flowers and plants, but the nearest plans are similar works with entire gardens. For large works, 100-watt spotlights will be used. Look for detailed photos in today's materials!

15-12-2017, 22:16

Today's selection of photos will tell all the secrets of Patty Waymire's journey to an island called Barter. This area is located off the coast of distant Alaska. The main goal was to photograph wonderful polar bears in a snowy area. But after arriving at the site, Patty did not find the expected snow, even before the sea ice began to form. The conceived ideas for photographs had to be put aside, and the local owners of the sea ice lay serenely on the sandy shore. Such a sad picture should serve for each of us as a clear example of the impact of mankind on the surrounding atmosphere. Look for more photos in the materials of our today's article.

23-06-2017, 12:45

Our today's material will tell about the work of a self-taught photographer named Daniel Zhezhikha. In his works he uses the technique of minimalism and classic black and white photography. It is in these shades that all the subtleties of photography are transmitted. Daniel comes from the small town of Krupke, which is located near Teplice. Throughout his childhood, he was very fond of traveling and the surrounding nature. The first passion for photography began precisely in various travels, in which the boy took pictures on a soap dish.
The first thought about professional photography came in 2006, after which a Pentax camera was bought. Since then, Zhezhikha has been completely immersed in the world of filming!

22-06-2017, 12:18

A professional photographer named Elena Chernyshova works in the documentary genre. Originally from Moscow, but currently lives and works in France. Initially, Elena graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, but after working in her specialty for a couple of years, she decided to do something else. The idea to become a photographer came about after a bicycle trip from Tula to Vladivostok, she covered such a huge distance in 1004 days.
Many of Cheshnyshova's works can be seen in world famous publishing houses. She dedicated her new series called "Winter" to the chic beauty of the Russian winter. In each of the works, the whole atmosphere of this wonderful time of the year is very subtly conveyed.

21-06-2017, 10:14

A clear starry sky is becoming a rare phenomenon for the inhabitants of modern megapoles, and the night starry sky has always been a great mystery for man, and man has always wanted to know what is there above the sky, in the universe strewn with myriads of stars. Finnish photographer Oskar Keserci is fond of photographing the starry sky. Most of the year in Finland are cold. At night, the temperature drops to 30 degrees below zero.
The blue hues of the photographs are just right to convey the feeling of frosty Finnish nights, says Oscar. It is on a starry night that you can experience special sensations that will immerse you in a fantasy world. A series of photos of the master is presented in our review!