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All photos below are the winners of the World Press Photo Contest of various years.

“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 11th. “On the day most captured on camera and on film 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.

A photograph that showed the face of the Great Depression. Thanks to legendary photographer Dorothea Lange, Florence Owen Thompson has been the epitome of the Great Depression for many years. Lange took the photograph while visiting a vegetable picker camp in California in February 1936, wanting to show the world the resilience and resilience of a proud nation in hard times. Today, such photos (as well as videos) can be taken using the xiaomi yi action camera, but in those days, more primitive cameras were used. The story of Dorothea's life turned out to be as attractive as her portrait. At 32, she was already the mother of seven children and a widow (her husband died of tuberculosis). Finding themselves virtually destitute in the resettlement labor camp, her family subsisted on the meat of the birds the children managed to shoot and the vegetables from the farm, as did the rest of the 2,500 camp workers.

The publication of the photo produced the effect of an exploding bomb. The story of Thompson, which appeared on the covers of the most authoritative publications, caused an immediate response from the public. The Resettlement Administration immediately sent food and emergency supplies to the camp. Unfortunately, the Thompson family had already left the habitable place by this time and received nothing from the generosity of the government. It should be noted that at that time no one knew the name of the woman depicted in the photograph. Only forty years after the publication of this photograph, in 1976, Thompson "revealed" herself by giving an interview to one of the national newspapers.

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

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 at a hospital in Saigon, where she was being treated for strange burns. Kim still remembers running from her siblings on the day of the bombing and 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 South helped the girl and took her to the hospital. At first, the photographer doubted whether to publish a photo of a naked girl, but then 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 the medical university, the Vietnamese government found her, and since then Kim's image has been used in propaganda chains. “I was under constant control. I wanted to die, this Photo haunted me,” says Kim. Later there was immigration to Cuba, where she was able to continue her education. There she met her future husband. Together they moved to Canada. Many years later, she finally realized that she couldn't run away from this photo and decided to use it and her fame to fight for peace.

Triangle Shirtwaist Company building fire, 1911 The American Triangle Shirtwaist Company became famous in the United States for its love of cheap labor by young immigrant women in its factories. Since the risk remained that such personnel would steal, during working hours the doors of the shops were closed until the end of the shift.

It was this "tradition" that caused the tragedy that occurred on March 25, 1911, when a fire broke out on the ninth floor of a factory building in New York. At first, witnesses to the fire thought that the workers were saving the most expensive fabrics from the fire, but, as it turned out, the people locked in the burning workshop jumped out of the windows themselves. After that, a nationwide campaign aimed at improving worker safety began in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mike Wells, UK. April 1980 Karamoja region, Uganda. Terribly hungry boy and missionary.

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

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

Moments when John F. Kennedy's killer was shot (Robert H. Jackson) The author filmed Oswald, the man who once took the life of the President of the United States of America, John F. Kennedy. Everywhere there were indignant people who demanded the death penalty for the criminal. The photographer pressed the shutter and took another picture. The moment the flash was charging for the next shot, the killer was shot. The shot became fatal for Oswald.

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

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

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 many unarmed civilians were shot dead by him and his henchmen. General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, pictured left, has been haunted by his past all his life: he was refused treatment at an Australian military hospital, after moving to the US, he faced a massive campaign calling for his immediate deportation, the restaurant he opened in Virginia, every day was attacked by vandals. "We know who you are!" - this inscription haunted the general of the army all his life.

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 that I could not even dream of”, Kevin Carter received the Pulitzer Prize for the photograph “Famine in Sudan”, taken in the early spring of 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 wanted to hug his daughter.

Malcolm Brown, a 3-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 arrived there with a reporter from the New York Times, and soon a car pulled up, several Buddhist monks got out of it. Among them is Thich Ouang Due, 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 Due 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 Duo 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 answer.

A 12-year-old Afghan girl is the famous photograph taken by Steve McCurry 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.

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

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

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

Kyoichi Sawada/United Press International, Japan. February 24, 1966 Tan Binh, southern Vietnam. The US military is dragging the body of a Viet Cong (South Vietnamese rebel) soldier on a leash.

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

Inimitable Marilyn Monroe Photo does not need comments! It captures one of the best actresses of all time - Marilyn Monroe in the minutes of her break. Someone distracted the girl and by sheer chance she took her eyes off the lens. However, this gave the picture an unusual mystery and true charm.

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."

White and color photograph by Elliott Erwitt 1950.

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

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

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

The photo depicts a terrible tragedy - on November 13, 1985, the eruption of the Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz. Muddy slush from the streams of mud and earth swallowed up all life under it. Over 23,000 people died in those days. A girl, Omaira Sanchaz, got into the frame a few hours before her death. She could not get out of the mud porridge, because her legs were clamped by a huge concrete slab. The rescuers did everything in their power. The girl behaved courageously, encouraging everyone around her. In a terrible trap, hoping for salvation, she spent three long days. On the fourth, she began to hallucinate and died from the viruses she picked up.

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 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, just before the spinal surgery needed 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. Little Samuel's mom said they "cried for days" when they saw this photo. She said: “This picture reminds us that my pregnancy is not a disease or handicap, it is a little person. “Samuel was born completely healthy, the operation was 100% successful. The doctor's name was Joseph Bruner. When he finished the operation, he said only one thing: “Beauty!” As an addition: in some Western countries it is allowed to have an abortion up to 28 weeks / in France up to 22 weeks, in the Russian Federation up to 12 weeks.

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

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.

A photograph that let the war into every home. One of the first war photojournalists, Matthew Brady was known as the creator of the daggerotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Robert Lee. Brady had everything: a career, money, his own business. And he decided to risk all this (as well as his own life), following the army of northerners with a camera in his hands. Having narrowly escaped capture in the very first battle in which he took part, Brady somewhat lost his patriotic fervor and began to send assistants to the front line. Over several years of war, Brady and his team took more than 7,000 photographs. That's quite an impressive number, especially considering that taking a single picture required equipment and chemicals placed inside a covered wagon pulled by several horses. Not very similar to the usual digital "soap dishes"? The photographs that seemed so appropriate on the battlefield had a very heavy aura. However, it was thanks to them that ordinary Americans for the first time were able to see the bitter and harsh military reality, not veiled by jingoistic slogans.

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

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

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", has become a symbol of the end of World War II.

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.

Irving 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.

A couple of weeks after the events of September 11 in New York and Washington, a photograph of a guy standing on the roof of the World Trade Center in New York at the moment the fatal plane approached began to circulate on the Internet. The accompanying text reported that the picture was supposedly printed from a film that was found in the ruins of the World Trade Center. The FBI, they say, developed the film and specially published the picture on the Internet in order to find out who this guy was.

Immediately there were observant people who noticed suspicious facts:

"Tourist" is too warmly dressed for the weather that was on September 11 in New York;
The "tourist" could not be on the roof of the WTC when the first plane crashed into the building (8.45 am), because the observation deck opened at 9.30 am;
the plane comes in from the wrong side from which it actually flew up;
and in general this is a plane of the wrong model;
the angle of the shadow is not correct for this time of day;
the font used by the camera to mark the date of the photograph is not the one normally used.

The "tourist of death" was debunked, and seemed to be consigned to the dustbin of history forever. However, Internet users have a new hobby: using Photoshop to insert "Tourist" into various images - later, exactly the same fate will be prepared for the Witness from Fryazino.

Many were interested in the identity of the person depicted in the original. The "tourist of death" is called Peter Guzli, then he was 25 years old and he lived in Budapest. Peter visited the roof of the World Trade Center in New York in November 1997. When the complex was destroyed, Guzli remembered these pictures and took up Photoshop. Then he sent the picture to his friends, not assuming what all this will result in.

2. Afghan girl

In late 1984, photographer Steve McCurry ended up in the Nazir Bagh Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan, where he was allowed to take pictures in a girls' classroom at a school. Later, he recalled that he immediately noticed her, but came last, as he felt her embarrassment and confusion. The girl allowed to take pictures, but it never occurred to him to ask or write down her name: “I didn’t think that this photo would be any different from many other pictures that I took that day,” McCurry later said.

But she was different. In June 1985, the photograph appeared on the cover of National Geographic and immediately became a symbol of the Afghan people's struggle for independence. In the 20+ years since its publication, the "Afghan Girl" photograph has become one of the most recognizable images of the time. The photo was replicated by other magazines, appeared on postcards and posters, on the backs of peace fighters in the form of a tattoo, and so on. According to the US National Geographic Society, she became one of the 100 best photographs, and in the late 1990s. Appeared on the cover of National Geographic's collection of photographs. In 2005, the cover of "Afghan Girl" ("Afghan Girl") entered the top ten "Best Magazine Covers of the Past 40 Years".

3. Palestinian martyr

On September 30, 2000, after the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada, France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin and cameraman Abu Rahma filmed a shootout between militants and the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. Two Palestinians - Jamal al-Dura and his son Mohammed, who were under crossfire on one of the streets, got into the frame. The father, according to the authors of the video, was wounded, and the son was killed. The actual moment of the boy's death was not caught on film, but the report showed the child's body with comments that he had died from an Israeli bullet.

The France 2 report received a wide response around the world, and the deceased Mohammed al-Dura actually became a symbol of the second intifada. Israel first publicly apologized for the death of al-Dura, but then several independent journalistic investigations came to the conclusion that the child was killed by Palestinian militants. For a long time, Israel did not officially react to the scandal that unfolded around the France 2 report - it presented its version of events that blamed the militants for what happened only in 2007.

4. Famine in Sudan

Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for "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 ...

5 Loch Ness Monster

The "surgeon's photograph" is the most famous photograph of the Loch Ness monster and actually started the Loch Ness craziness from this photograph alone. When someone thinks of Nessie, then, without a doubt, this is the photo that comes to mind. The photograph was allegedly taken by the physician R. Kenneth Wilson and his wife in 1934, when they were relaxing near the shores of Loch Ness. Unfortunately for all the "scientists" who spent decades studying Nessie, the photograph was 100% fake.

The monster in the photo is an ordinary toy submarine. The creation of a fake doctor was prompted by a desire to take revenge on the Daily Mail newspaper. A journalist for the publication ridiculed a man named Wetherall after what the man thought were Nessie's footprints on the shore turned out to be the footprints of a hippopotamus. Waverall and his friend and accomplice Wilson decided to humiliate the newspaper with yet another fake, but even after the photo took hold of the minds of the public, they did not confess to what they had done.

6. Self-immolation of a Buddhist monk

The iconic shot was taken in 1963 by photographer Malcolm Brown. For this work, the photographer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and recognized as the best world press photo of the year.

The Buddhist monk who committed a public act of suicide in protest of the oppression of Buddhism was named Thich Quang Duc. At that time, the first Vietnamese president, Ngo Dinh Diem, pursued a policy of ousting the religion of Buddhism from the country.

At the same time, the photographer from the New York edition of the Associated Press, Malcolm Brown, received a call and was informed that on the morning of June 11 he should appear at a specified location in Saigon. It was reported that a great and historically significant event was to take place there.

The photographer arrived at the specified location exactly on time, taking with him a reporter from the New York Times. Soon a blue "Austin" appeared on the street, from which a group of monks came out, among them was the same Thich Quang Duc. He calmly sat down on the ground in a lotus position, holding a box of matches in his hands. The monks took a can of gasoline and doused Thich Kuang Duc's body with it, then the monk himself lit a match, and soon his body was burning with a bright flame. The most amazing fact in this whole story is that during the process of self-immolation, the monk was remarkably calm. He didn't utter a single word or even change his posture. Only after his body was completely burned did it drop dead. But as it turned out, the monk's heart did not burn, and now it is considered a relic of Buddhism. As well as the blue "Austin", which brought the monks to Saigon.

As it turned out, shortly before the incident, the monk who committed self-immolation sent a letter to the President of Vietnam asking him to stop the widespread repression of Buddhists, not to detain the monks and give them the right to quietly preach their religion. However, there was no response to the letter. And after this terrible performance of the president's brother's wife, Madame Niu, was made on the city street, she said that she was very upset because she could not see how the monk Thich Quang Duc was burning, but she would gladly "clap her hands "on another burning of Buddhists.

7. The last Jew of Vinnitsa

The famous photograph of the execution of the last Jew of the Ukrainian Vinnitsa in 1941, taken by an officer of the German Einsatzgruppe, which was engaged in the execution of persons subject to destruction (primarily Jews). The title of the photo was written on its back.

Vinnitsa was occupied by German troops on July 19, 1941. Some of the Jews living in the city managed to evacuate. The remaining Jewish population was imprisoned in the ghetto. On July 28, 1941, 146 Jews were shot in the city. In August, the shootings resumed. On September 22, 1941, most of the prisoners of the Vinnitsa ghetto were destroyed (about 28,000 people). Craftsmen, workers and technicians, whose work was necessary for the German occupation authorities, were left alive.

The issue of employing Jewish specialists was discussed at a special meeting in Vinnitsa in early 1942. The participants of the meeting noted that there were five thousand Jews in the city, in their hands "all trades ... they also work in all enterprises of vital importance." The city police chief said that the presence of Jews in the city worries him very much, "because the building being built here [A. Hitler's headquarters] is in danger due to the presence of Jews here." On April 16, 1942, almost all Jews were shot (only 150 specialist Jews were left alive). The last 150 Jews were shot on August 25, 1942. However, the Germans did not manage to destroy all the Jews of Vinnitsa to the last - the Jews hiding in the city participated in the citywide underground. There were at least 17 Jews among the underground workers.

The unknown rebel (also English Tank Man) is the code name by which the man became known, for half an hour he alone held back a column of tanks during the unrest in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. The most famous photograph of him was taken by Jeff Widener, a reporter for the Associated Press, from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel. It shows a man standing unarmed in front of a column of Type 59 tanks. The panoramic photo was taken by Stuart Franklin a little earlier and shows 19 tanks of this column.

The footage of a simple Chinese with string bags opposing tanks went around the world, becoming a symbol of what was called "a protest against the tyranny of a totalitarian state." The picture was printed by hundreds of newspapers and magazines around the world, hit the TV news. In April 1998, the American magazine "Time" included the "Unknown Rebel" in the list of 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

International journalist Vsevolod Ovchinnikov, who was in China at that time, considered this photograph to be "perhaps the only true frame" of those events, comparing it with "frames that captured violence that went around the world as episodes of the" massacre on Tiananmen Square "", which in reality were the result of television.

In 2013, on the 24th anniversary of the events, a version of the picture was circulated on the Internet, in which 4 giant rubber ducks are depicted instead of tanks.

9 Marlborough Street Fire

On July 22, 1975, Boston Herald journalist Stanley Foreman, hearing firefighters' reports of a fire on Marlborough Street, immediately rushed to the scene. At the scene of the fire, the journalist managed to capture a tragic story: firefighters did not have a few seconds to get to the girls Diana Bryant and the very young Tiara Jones who were in trouble. When the fire escape was already close, the flame burst out. The girls flew down. Diana Bryant died, Tiara Jones managed to survive. Subsequently, Foreman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, but the main thing is that this case drew the attention of the authorities to the problems of fire safety.

10. Lynching of young blacks in Minnesota (USA) in 1930

The Hanged - two Negroes, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. They were arrested on charges of murdering a white man and raping his girlfriend. The charge of rape was later not confirmed, only murder. But nobody began to understand. A crowd of more than 2,000 people beat off the arrested from the police (they did not really resist) and hanged them.

11. Banner of Victory on the Reichstag

The world-famous photographs of Yevgeny Khaldei "The Banner of Victory over the Reichstag" depicted the fighters of the 8th Guards Army Alexei Kovalev, Abdulkhakim Ismailov and Leonid Gorichev.

Khaldei, on the instructions of the TASS Newsreel, took photographs on May 2, 1945, when street fighting had already ended and Berlin was completely occupied by Soviet troops. In addition, many red banners were installed on the Reichstag. The photographer asked the first soldiers he met to help take photographs. Soon he filmed two cassettes with them. The banner that Alexey Kovalev is holding in the photo, the photographer brought with him.

What makes a photographer famous? Decades spent in the profession, acquired or invaluable experience? No, the only thing that makes a photographer famous is his pictures. The list of famous photographers of the world consists of people with a bright personality, attention to detail, and the highest professionalism. After all, it is not enough just to be in the right place at the right time, you also need to be able to correctly display what is happening. Being a good photographer is not easy, let alone professional. We want to introduce you to the greatest classics of photography and examples of their work.

Ansel Adams

"What the photographer is able to see, and what he sees - to say, is of incomparably greater importance than the quality of technical equipment ..."(Ansel Adams)

Ansel Adams (Ansel Easton Adams Born February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer best known for his black and white photographs of the American West. Ansel Adams, on the one hand, was gifted with a subtle artistic flair, on the other hand, he had an impeccable command of photographic techniques. His photographs are full of almost epic power. They combine the features of symbolism and magical realism, inspiring the impression of the "first days of Creation". During his lifetime, he created over 40,000 photographs and participated in more than 500 exhibitions around the world.

Yusuf Karsh

“If, looking at my portraits, you learn something more significant about the people depicted in them, if they help you sort out your feelings about someone whose work has left a mark on your brain - if you look at a photograph and say: “Yes, it’s him” and at the same time you learn something new about a person - then this is a really good portrait” ( Yusuf Karsh)

Yusuf Karsh(Yousuf Karsh, December 23, 1908 - July 13, 2002) - Canadian photographer of Armenian origin, one of the masters of portrait photography. During his life he made portraits of 12 US Presidents, 4 Popes, all British Prime Ministers, Soviet leaders - Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, as well as Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Bernard Shaw and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Robert Capa

“A photograph is a document, looking at which one who has eyes and a heart begins to feel that not everything is safe in the world” ( Robert Capa)

Robert Capa (real name Endre Erno Friedman, October 22, 1913, Budapest - May 25, 1954, Tonkin, Indochina) is a Jewish photographer born in Hungary. Robert Capa was not going to become a photographer at all, life circumstances pushed him to this. And only courage, adventurism and bright pictorial talent made him one of the most famous war reporters of the twentieth century.

Henri Cartier Bresson

«... photography can capture infinity at one point in time... " (Henri-Cartier-Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 2, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. Father of photojournalism. One of the founders of the photo agency Magnum Photos. Born in France. Was fond of painting. He paid much attention to the role of time and the "decisive moment" in photography.

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn, May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) - American photographer and photojournalist / Her photographs, bright, striking in the heart with their frankness, nakedness of pain and hopelessness, are silent evidence of what hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans had to endure, deprived of shelter, basic means of subsistence and all hope.

This photograph has been literally the epitome of the Great Depression for many years. Dorothea Lange took the picture while visiting a vegetable picker camp in California in February 1936, wishing to show the world the resilience and resilience of a proud nation in difficult times.

brassai

“There is always a chance - and each of us hopes for it. Only a bad photographer takes one chance in a hundred, while a good photographer uses everything.

“Every creative person has two dates of birth. The second date - when he will understand what his true calling is - is much more important than the first "

“The purpose of art is to elevate people to a level that they could not reach in any other way”

“There are many photographs full of life, but incomprehensible and quickly forgotten. They lack strength - and this is the most important "(Brassai)

Brassai (Gyula Halas, September 9, 1899 - July 8, 1984) was a Hungarian and French photographer, painter and sculptor. In Brassaille's photographs, we see the mysterious Paris in the light of street lamps, squares and houses, foggy embankments, bridges and almost fabulous wrought iron bars. One of his favorite techniques was reflected in a series of photographs taken under the headlights of rare cars at the time.

Brian Duffy

“Every photograph taken after 1972 I have seen before. Nothing new. After a while, I realized that photography is dead ... " Brian Duffy

Brian Duffy (June 15, 1933 – May 31, 2010) was an English photographer. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Sammy Davis Jr., Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, David Bowie, Joanna Lumley and William Burroughs have all stood in front of his camera.

Jerry Welsman

“I believe that the ability of a person to convey things beyond the visible is enormous. This phenomenon can be observed in all genres of fine arts, as we are constantly looking for new ways to explain the world, which sometimes reveals itself to us in moments of understanding that go beyond the boundaries of our usual experience.(Jerry Welsman)

Jerry Welsman (1934) is an American theorist of the art of photography, teacher, one of the most interesting photographers of the second half of the twentieth century, a master of mysterious collages and visual interpretations. The surreal collages of the talented photographer conquered the world when Photoshop was not even in the project. However, even now the author of unusual works remains true to his own technique and believes that miracles are happening in a darkened photo lab.

Annie Liebovitz

“When I say I want to take a picture of someone, it means I want to get to know them. Everyone I know, I photograph" ( Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz)

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (Anna-Lou «Annie» Leibovitz; genus. October 2, 1949, Waterbury, Connecticut) - famous American photographer. Specializes in celebrity portraits. Today it is the most popular among women photographers. Her work graces magazine covers. Vogue, Vanity Fair, New Yorker and Rolling Stone, she was posed naked by John Lennon and Betty Midler, Whoopi Goldberg and Demi Moore, Sting and Devine. Annie Leibovitz managed to break the stereotypes of beauty in fashion, introduce older faces, wrinkles, everyday cellulite and imperfection of forms into the photo arena.

Jerry Gionis

“Set aside at least five minutes a day to try to accomplish the impossible - and you will soon feel the difference” ( Jerry Gionis).

Jerry Gionis - the top wedding photographer from Australia is a real master of his genre! No wonder he is considered one of the most successful masters of this direction in the world.

Colbert Gregory

Gregory Colbert (1960, Canada) - a pause in our fast paced world. Stop on the run. Absolute silence and concentration. Beauty in silence and immobility. The feeling of delight from the feeling of belonging to a huge living being - the planet Earth - these are the emotions that his works evoke. Within 13 years, he made 33 (thirty-three) expeditions to the most remote and exotic corners of our vast and at the same time such a tiny planet: India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, Antarctica. He set himself one task - to reflect in his works the amazing relationship between man and nature, the animal world.

In fact, the list of the greatest photographers is quite long, and these are just a few of them.