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Everyone knows popular actors, singers, politicians, but do you know the most famous photographers in Russia? They are the ones who give the world beautiful portraits, vibrant photo reports and create new types of photography.
Portrait photography
One of the most common types of photography is portrait photography. A skilled photographer must convey a person’s character, his emotions and mood in just one frame.
Lyalya Kuznetsova
Lyalya Kuznetsova was born in Kazakhstan in 1946. She graduated from the Aviation Institute and worked for some time as an engineer. In the 70s, the girl became interested in photography, and already in 1978 she began working as a photographer at the Kazan State Museum of Art.
Lyalya specializes in portrait photography. Her most famous exhibition is “The Road” - a series of photographs about the life of gypsy camps. The first photographs for this exhibition were taken in the late 70s, when the photographer decided to photograph one of the last gypsy camps on the territory of the USSR.
Oleg Videnin
The photographer was born in 1963 in Bryansk. After school, Oleg Videnin entered the Institute of Technology with a degree in forestry engineer. He worked as a forester. Later he tried his hand as a theater actor, but photography fascinated him more. Oleg decided to specialize in portrait photography.
In the late 90s, when various Internet portals appeared where one could publish one’s own photographs, Oleg gained real popularity. He became one of the most mentioned photographers on the Runet.
Photojournalists
Photojournalists use photography as their primary means of communicating information. A true professional in his field must be objective and independent.
Vladimir Vyatkin
Vladimir Vyatkin was born in 1951. Since childhood, he was interested in music and photography. Immediately after graduating from boarding school, he went to work as a photo lab assistant at the APN. In 1971, Vladimir was drafted into the army, but upon his return he again went to work at the Novosti Press Agency, where he continues to work to this day.
Vladimir prefers to photograph social issues, art, and sports. He developed the style of neo-pictorial photography. He has participated in special projects for National Geographic magazine many times. He is a laureate of the international photo competition World Press Photo and many other prestigious competitions.
Alexander Zemlyanichenko
The famous photojournalist Alexander Zemlyanichenko was born in 1950 in Saratov. Immediately after moving to the capital in the 80s, he began collaborating with the Rovesnik magazine. Later he was accepted into the staff of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
Since the early 90s, the famous Russian photographer has been in charge of the photo service in the Moscow bureau of the Associated Press agency. Alexander is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and is also a Kremlin pool photographer.
War photojournalist
War photojournalists risk their lives just like soldiers. They find themselves in the thick of military conflicts to obtain the most relevant personnel.
Yuri Kozyrev
Yuri Kozyrev was born in 1963 in the Russian capital. He graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism. In 1986, he took up photography professionally. He was the first to cover the largest regional conflicts and wars on the territory of the former USSR (Abkhazia, Moldova, both Chechen wars, Beslan). Also, since 2002, he lived in Baghdad, where he came to work at the personal invitation of Saddam Hussein.
The famous photographer is a winner of many international competitions, such as World Press Photo, Press Photo of Russia, The World Press Club Photo Award, Visa pour L’image, The Overseas Press Club Oliver Rebbot Award and many others.
Evgeny Khaldey
The most famous photographers of Russia - Evgeny Khaldey and his works Evgeny Khaldey was born in Donetsk (old name - Yuzovka) in 1917. He took his first photograph with a homemade camera at the age of 13. At the age of 16, Evgeniy began his work as a photojournalist. Since 1939 he has been a correspondent for TASS Photo Chronicle. The photographer worked for TASS during the Great Patriotic War. He spent all 1418 days of the war with a Leica camera from Murmansk to Berlin.
In 1995, at the International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, Evgeniy Khaldey was awarded the most prestigious award in the art world - the title “Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.” One of the most famous photographers in Russia died on October 6, 1997.
Mark on history
Some photographers have made invaluable contributions to the art of photography. Their inventions are still used today, and their works delight contemporaries around the world.
Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky
Russian photographer, publisher, teacher and chemist (student of Dmitry Mendeleev himself) Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky was born in 1863 in the Russian Empire. Since 1887, Sergei began making reports on the technical results of his photographic research to the Fifth Department of the Imperial Russian Technical Society. Then his career develops rapidly. He becomes a pioneer of color photography in Russia, patenting many new technologies in the field of photography.
During his life, Sergei managed to work with the Lumiere brothers for several years. The most famous photographer in Russia of that time died in 1944 in Paris.
Alexander Rodchenko
Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was born in 1891 in St. Petersburg. He is the founder of constructivism, design and advertising in the USSR. The photographer worked with his wife, artist-designer Varvara Stepanova.
The photographer became famous after a series of psychological portraits of his loved ones and famous personalities. Later he presented angle shots of the buildings. Years later, on behalf of the OGPU, he filmed the completion of the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. One of the most famous photographers in Russia died in 1956.
David Barnett has been a photojournalist for 40 years. His camera does not hunt beautiful landscapes and cats - it is aimed at important events that become symbols of the era. David's photographs allow you to look at the world from the outside. His works are a living history textbook, which, instead of dry facts, demonstrates the bright events of our time.
I like David. While other pros are shopping, he's carrying around an ancient Speed Graphic video camera that's 60 years old. Of course, he has expensive professional equipment. But, apparently, he understands perfectly well: an expensive camera is a pleasant bonus, and not a prerequisite for a good shot. A real master can take a good shot even with a point-and-shoot camera for 30 bucks.
- A simple example: in 2000, David won the “Eyes of History” competition by taking a photo with a cheap plastic Holga camera for $30.
When Helmut was a teenager, the Gestapo arrested his father. Newton fled Germany and moved to Australia, where he served in the Australian Army until the end of World War II... This seems to be the way to write a description if you've been bitten by a Wikipedia moderator.
The biographies of talented people often look too impeccable, like a VIP room in a private clinic - just as sterilely clean and far from real life. German-Australian photographer, worked for Vogue magazine, sometimes shot in the nude genre... This short retelling does not give any idea of who Newton Hellmuth was.
And he was a sincere snob without delusions of grandeur, who loved the glitz of high society. He preferred to photograph rich people and stay in luxury hotels. And he spoke honestly about this, considering himself a rather superficial, but truthful person.
Until he suffered a heart attack in 1971, Helmut smoked 50 cigarettes a day and could party for a week. But a heart attack revealed an incredible truth to the 50-year-old photographer: it turns out that a wild “youth” lifestyle can end very sadly with age.
Having been on the verge of death, Helmut quit smoking, began to lead a more measured life and promised himself to film only what was interesting to him.
Helmut Newton on the things he hates:
- I hate good taste. This is a boring phrase that suffocates all living things.
- I hate it when everything is inside out - it's cheap.
- I hate dishonesty in photography: pictures taken in the name of some artistic principle are fuzzy and grainy.
Yuri Arcurs is one of the most successful stock photographers in the world. Instead of photographing sunrises and fog in a city park, he photographs what sells: happy families and pills, money and students. And on special sites called photo stocks, all this is sold and bought. And in this area, Arcurs became a real guru, who showed by personal example how you can earn money, achieve heights and even have fun doing commercial stock photography.
Yuri was born and raised in Denmark. He started earning money from photo stocks during his student years to pay for his studies. At the time, the only model he could shoot was his girlfriend. But soon additional income became the main one for Yuri: within a few years, in 2008, he was earning up to $90,000 a month from photo stocks.
Today this guy sells his work to large companies: MTV, Sony, Microsoft, Canon, Samsung and Hewlett Packard. His shooting day costs $6,000. And this whole story became a real Cinderella fairy tale for freelancers with a camera.
How realistic is it to repeat this path to success? Who knows. We can only state that today Yuri Arcurs is one of the most successful stock photographers.
Irving Penn loved photography, but did not attach much importance to this hobby. His main job was art design: Irwin designed magazine covers and even got a job as an assistant art editor at the popular Vogue magazine.
But cooperation with famous photographers of this publication did not work out. Penn was constantly dissatisfied with their work and could not explain to them what he needed. As a result, he waved his hand and took up the camera himself. And how he got it: the pictures were so successful that his superiors persuaded him to retrain as a photographer.
Irwin was the first to shoot models against a white or gray background - there was nothing superfluous in the frame. His incredible attention to every detail earned him a reputation as one of the best portrait photographers of his time. This allowed Penn to photograph various celebrities, including Al Pacino and Hitchcock, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.
Gursky inherited his love for photography from his father: he was an advertising photographer and taught his son all the intricacies of his craft. Therefore, Andreas did not hesitate in choosing a profession: he graduated from the school of professional photographers and the State Academy of Arts.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about this because my Wiki-moderator syndrome has flared up again. It’s just that Andreas is one of the few photographers from our rating who approached this activity thoroughly, and did not start shooting by chance.
After completing his studies, Gursky began traveling around the world. By experimenting and gaining new experience, he found his own style, which is now his calling card: Andreas takes huge photographs, the dimensions of which are measured in meters. Looking at their smaller copies on a computer screen, it is difficult to appreciate the effect they produce in full size.
Regardless of whether Gursky was photographing a city panorama or a river landscape, people or factories, his photographs are striking in their scale and the peculiar monotony of the details in the photo.
Ansel Adams spent most of his life photographing nature in the western United States. He traveled extensively, photographing the wildest and most inaccessible corners of national parks. His love of nature was expressed not only in photography: Ansel was an active advocate for the conservation and protection of the environment.
But what Adams didn’t like was pictorialism, popular in the first half of the 20th century - a shooting method that made it possible to take photographs similar to painting. In contrast, Ansel and a friend founded the f/64 group, which professed the principles of so-called “direct photography”: shooting everything honestly and realistically, without any filters, post-processing and other bells and whistles.
Group f/64 was founded in 1932, at the very beginning of Ansel's career. But he was true to his convictions, so he retained his love for nature and documentary photography until the end of his life.
- You've probably seen this desktop screensaver depicting the Teton Range and the Snake River against the backdrop of the setting sun:
So, it was Adams who was the first to capture this landscape from this angle. His black-and-white photograph was included in 116 images that were recorded on the Voyager gold plate - this is a message from earthlings to unknown civilizations, sent into space 40 years ago. Now the aliens will think that we don’t have color cameras, but we do have good photographers.
I like Sebastian's biography. This is a natural evolution that happens to any idealist throughout life.
This story was told by Salgado himself in an interview when he visited Moscow in February 2016. At the age of 25, he and his wife moved from Brazil to Europe. From there they planned to go to the Soviet Union and enter the Peoples' Friendship University in order to build a society without social inequality. But in 1970, their dreams were destroyed by a friend from Prague - the Czechs tasted plenty of communism in 1968.
So, this guy dissuaded the spouses, explaining that no one was building communism in the USSR anymore. Power does not belong to the people and if they want to fight for the happiness of ordinary people, they can stay and help immigrants. Salgado listened to his comrade and stayed in France.
He studied to be an economist, but quickly realized that it was not for him. His wife, Lelia Salgado, had a more creative profession - she was a pianist... but she was also disappointed in her occupation and decided to become an architect. It was she who bought their first camera to photograph architecture. As soon as Sebastian looked at the world through the viewfinder, he immediately realized that he had found his true passion. And after 2 years he became a professional photographer.
According to Salgado himself, his economic education gave him knowledge of history and geography, sociology and anthropology. A huge store of knowledge opened up opportunities for him that were unavailable to other photographers: understanding human society in various parts of our planet. He visited more than 100 countries, taking an incredible amount of documentary photographs.
But don’t think that Sebastian photographed exotic beaches and funny animals while vacationing on tropical islands. His travels don't go that way at all. Initially, an idea is born: “Workers”, “Terra”, “Renaissance” - these are just some of the names of his albums. Afterwards, preparations for the trip begin and the trip itself, which can take several years.
Many of his works are dedicated to human suffering: he photographed refugees in African countries, victims of famine and genocide. Some critics even began to reproach Salgada for presenting poverty and suffering as something aesthetic. Sebastian himself is sure that the matter is different: according to him, he has never photographed those who look pathetic. Those he photographed were in distress, but they had dignity.
And it would be completely wrong to think that Salgado was “promoting himself” on someone else’s grief. On the contrary, he drew the attention of mankind to those troubles that many did not notice. The situation is indicative when Sebastian completed the work “Exodus” in the 1990s: he photographed people who escaped genocide. After the trip, he admitted that he was disappointed in people and no longer believed that humanity could survive. He returned to Brazil and took some time off to recover.
Fortunately, this story has a happy ending: the old idealist regained his faith in beauty, and is now busy with another project, photographing the untouched corners of our planet.
If you start typing in a search engine , then Google will display a drop-down window with the option "Steve McCurry Afghan Girl". This is quite strange, because McCurry is too mustachioed for a girl, even an Afghan one.
In fact, the “Afghan Girl” is Steve’s most famous photograph, appearing on the cover of National Geographic magazine. Even the Wikipedia article about this guy starts with this story:
- “Steve is the mustachioed American photojournalist who photographed the Afghan girl.”. (Wikipedia)
Most articles about this photographer begin with a similar phrase, including our story about him. One gets the impression that he is an actor of one role, like Daniel Radcliffe or Macaulay Culkin. But it is not so.
Steve's career as a professional photographer began during the war in Afghanistan. He did not drive around the country in a Hummer, hiding behind the backs of the military, but stayed among ordinary people: he got local clothes, sewed rolls of film into them and traveled around the country like an ordinary Afghan. Or like an ordinary American spy disguised as an Afghan - someone could consider this option. So Steve took a risk, but thanks to him, the world saw the first photographs of that conflict.
Since then, McCurry has not changed his approach to work: he wandered around the world, photographing different people. Steve has captured many military conflicts and has become a true master of street photography. Although in fact McCurry is a photojournalist, he managed to blur the line between documentary and artistic photography. His photographs are bright and attractive, like a postcard, but at the same time truthful. They do not require any explanations or comments - everything is clear without words. To create such photos, you need a rare flair.
Annie Leibovitz is a real expert when it comes to photographing stars. Her photographs graced the covers of the most popular magazines, causing strong emotions and discussions. Who else would have thought of photographing a grimacing Whoopi Goldberg in a milk bath? Or a naked John Lennon cuddling up to Yoko Ono in a fetal position? By the way, this was the last photograph in his life, taken a few hours before Chapman’s fatal shot.
Annie's biography looks quite smooth: after studying at the Art Institute in San Francisco, Leibovitz got a job at Rolling Stone magazine. She collaborated with him for more than 10 years. During this time, Annie has earned a reputation as a person who is able to photograph any celebrity in an interesting and creative way. And this is quite enough to achieve success in modern show business.
Having gained some fame, Annie moves to New York, where she opens her own photography studio. In 1983, she began working with Vanity Fair magazine, which sponsored her subsequent shocking photographs of stars. Shooting Demi Moore naked in the last stages of pregnancy or covering her with clay and putting Sting in the middle of the desert - this is quite in the spirit of Leibovitz. Like forcing Cate Blanchett to ride a bike or forcing a goose to take pictures with DiCaprio. No wonder her work is popular!
Who else can boast that they photographed the Queen of England, Michael Jackson, Barack Obama and many, many other celebrities? And, mind you, he was not filming as a papparazi, hiding behind a bush, but was organizing a full-fledged photo shoot? This is why Annie Leibovitz is considered, if not the best, then the most successful contemporary photographer. Although somewhat pop.
1. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri got his passion for art from his uncle: he was an artist and got his nephew interested in painting. This slippery slope eventually led him to a passion for photography. What did Henri do that distinguished him from hundreds and thousands of other photographers?
He realized a simple truth: everything must be done honestly and truly. That's why he refused staged photos and never asked anyone to act out a certain situation. Instead, he closely observed what was happening around him.
In order to remain invisible during the shooting, Henri covered the shiny metal parts on the camera with black electrical tape. He became a real “invisible man,” which allowed him to capture the most sincere feelings of people. And to do this, it’s not enough not to attract attention - you need to be able to determine the decisive moment for the photo. It was Henri who introduced this term, “the decisive moment,” and even wrote a book with that title.
To summarize: Cartier-Bresson's photographs are distinguished by living realism. For such work, some professional skills are not enough. It is necessary to sensitively understand human nature, to capture his emotions and mood. All this was inherent in Henri Cartier-Bresson. He was honest in his work.
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In fact, ratings are not a rewarding thing and are very subjective. When summing up the best of the best in rating lists, we still use some kind of inner tuning fork. We also decided to make our own ranking list of the 10 greatest Soviet photographers, according to the site.
Let us immediately note that the list will include several photographers who worked long before the formation of the Union of Soviets, however, their influence on the development of photography, both Soviet and world, is so great that it was simply impossible to say anything about them. And also, taking into account the subjectivity of this list, we tried to reflect in it the brightest representatives in each individual photographic genre.
The first place in our ranking undoubtedly belongs to. This is the greatest figure of culture and art. His influence on the development of Soviet art cannot be overestimated. He concentrated on himself all the fine arts of the young country of the Soviets - he was a sculptor, an artist, a graphic designer, and a photographer. Considered one of the founders of constructivism. Rodchenko is a universal and multifaceted figure. It became an effective impetus for the development of photography and design. His methods of constructive construction of photographs are used as canons.
In second position is the Russian photographer of the early 20th century, Georgy Goyningen-Hüne. Despite the fact that Georgy spent his entire professional life and activity in France, England and the USA, he is still Russian by origin. And in this case, he serves as an example of how immigrants from Russia achieved recognition and success abroad. Georgiy is one of the greatest fashion photographers of the 20s and 30s. By 1925, he became the chief photographer of French Vogue. In 1935 - American Harper's Bazaar. In 1943, two of his books were published, after which all his photographic attention concentrated on Hollywood celebrities.
The contribution of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky to the development of photographic art is great. Prokudin-Gorsky was a chemist and a photographer, and his occupation helped him improve the other. He went down in history as the first experimenter to propose the possibility of creating color photography in Russia. The method of acquiring color in a photograph that Prokudin-Gorsky used was not new. It was proposed back in 1855 by James Maxwell; it involved the superposition of three negatives, where each was passed through a filter of a certain color - red, green and blue. These three negatives, superimposed on each other, produce a color image in projection. Today, thanks to Prokudin-Gorsky, we have the opportunity to see Russia at the beginning of the 20th century in color.
Continuing our top ten greats is the Soviet military photographer, the author of two of the greatest, iconic photographs of the Great Patriotic War - “The First Day of the War” and “The Banner over the Reichstag” - Evgeniy Khaldei. As a war photographer, Khaldei went through the entire Great Patriotic War, and his most significant works were made in the period from 1941 to 1946. Chaldea's photographs are filled with a sense of historical importance. It is no secret that many of the photographer’s works, including the work “The Banner over the Reichstag,” were staged. Khaldei believed that photography should convey the spirit of the times and events as fully as possible, therefore there was no need to rush. The author approached the creation of each work responsibly and thoroughly.
Our list continues with the classic of photographic journalism - Boris Ignatovich. Ignatovich was a close friend and associate of Alexander Rodchenko, with whom he organized the photographic association “October Group” in the late 20s. It was a time of aspiration and search for new forms. Creative people, as a rule, were fruitful in several directions at the same time. So Ignatovich was a photographer, a photojournalist, a documentary filmmaker, a journalist, and an illustrator.
Next comes the greatest Soviet portrait photographer -. Nappelbaum went down in the history of photography as an unsurpassed studio portrait photographer. Nappelbaum, a master of compositional solutions, had a surprising and original approach to light composition, in which all the viewer’s attention is concentrated on the person being portrayed. As in the case of , through whose studio all the foreign celebrities of the 20th century passed, the greatest representatives of the Soviet country, right up to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, passed through Nappelbaum’s lens. Nappelbaum enjoyed enormous success and popularity as a good photographer. It is noteworthy that it was he who was invited to photograph the place of death of the great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin.
The first Russian landscape photographer, Vasily Sokornov, continues our list of ten great Soviet photographers. One of the first landscape painters who captured the beauty of Russian nature, and primarily Crimea, with a camera, was an artist by education and a photographer by vocation - Vasily Sokornov. Sokornov’s works were extremely popular during the photographer’s lifetime. Just like the works of Sokornov, who spent his entire life photographing the nature of Virginia, Sokornov’s works are mostly dedicated to the Crimea. They were published in magazines and postcards were sent all over Russia. Today he is considered the main chronicler of Crimean nature in the first decades of the 20th century.
The founder of Russian, Soviet journalistic, social photography, Maxim Dmitriev, occupies the eighth position in our rating. Dmitriev's life and work is a story of incredible rise and equally incredible fall. A native of the Tambov province, a student at a parochial school, by the early 1900s, Dmitriev became a leading photographer in Moscow. The founder of the photo studio, through which the leading people of the time pass - Ivan Bunin, Fedr Chaliapin, Maxim Gorky. But we love and remember Dmitriev for his chronicle photographs of the Volga region. They contain the original life and way of life of Russia, skillfully noted by the brilliant photographer. The downfall of Dmitriev was the rise to power of the Bolsheviks and widespread dispossession. By the early 1930s, the artist's photographic studio had been selected, along with more than seven thousand magnificent local history photographs.
What makes a photographer famous? Decades spent in the profession, acquired or invaluable experience? No, it is only his photographs that make a photographer famous. The list of famous photographers in the world consists of people with a strong 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 at a professional level. We want to introduce you to the greatest classics of photography and examples of their work.
Ansel Adams
“What a photographer is able to see and say about what he saw is incomparably more important than the quality of technical equipment..."(Ansel Adams)
Ansel Adams (Ansel Easton Adams, 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 sense, and on the other, he had an impeccable command of photography techniques. His photographs have an almost epic power. They combine the features of symbolism and magical realism, giving the impression of the “first days of Creation.” During his life, he created more than 40,000 photographs and participated in more than 500 exhibitions around the world.
Yusuf Karsh
“If, by looking at my portraits, you learn something more significant about the people depicted in them, if they help you sort out your feelings about someone whose work has left an imprint on your brain - if you look at a photograph and say: “Yes, this is him” and at the same time you learn something new about the person - that means this is a really successful 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 someone with eyes and a heart begins to feel that not all is well in the world” ( Robert Capa)
Robert Capa (Robert Capa, real name Endre Erno Friedman, October 22, 1913, Budapest - May 25, 1954, Tonkin, Indochina) is a photojournalist of Jewish origin, born in Hungary. Robert Capa had no intention of becoming a photographer; life circumstances pushed him towards this. And only courage, adventurism and bright visual talent made him one of the most famous war reporters of the twentieth century.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
«... With the help of photography you can capture infinity in one moment in time... "(Henri-Cartier Bresson)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 2, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was one of the main photographers of the 20th century. The father of photojournalism. One of the founders of the photo agency Magnum Photos. Born in France. He was interested in painting. He paid great 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 to the heart with their frankness, nakedness of pain and hopelessness, are silent evidence of what hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans, deprived of shelter and basic means of subsistence, had to endure and every hope.
For many years, this photo was literally the epitome of the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange took the photo while visiting a vegetable picker camp in California in February 1936, wanting to show the world the resilience of a proud nation in difficult times.
Brassaï
“There is always a chance - and each of us hopes for it. Only a bad photographer realizes one chance in a hundred, while a good one takes advantage of everything.”
“Every creative person has two dates of birth. The second date - when he understands what his true calling is - is much more important than the first."
“The purpose of art is to raise people to a level to which they could not reach in any other way.”
“There are many photographs that are full of life, but incomprehensible and quickly forgotten. They lack strength - and this is the most important thing"(Brassai)
Brassai (Gyula Halas, 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian and French photographer, painter and sculptor. In Brassaï's photographs we see the mysterious Paris in the light of street lamps, squares and houses, foggy embankments, bridges and almost fabulous wrought iron grilles. One of his favorite techniques was reflected in a series of photographs taken in the light of the headlights of cars that were rare at that time.
Brian Duffy
“Every photograph created after 1972, I have seen before. Nothing new. After a while I realized that photography was dead...” Brian Duffy
Brian Duffy (15 June 1933 – 31 May 2010) was an English photographer. At one time, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Sammy Davis Jr., Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, David Bowie, Joanna Lumley and William Burroughs stood in front of his camera.
Jerry Welsman
“I believe that man’s ability to convey things beyond the visible is enormous. This phenomenon can be observed in all genres of fine art, as we are constantly searching for new ways to explain the world, which sometimes opens up to us in moments of understanding that go beyond the boundaries of our usual experience.”(Jerry Welsman)
Jerry Welsman (1934) is an American photographic art theorist, 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 faithful to his own technique and believes that miracles can happen in a darkened darkroom.
Annie Liebovitz
“When I say I want to photograph someone, it means I want to get to know him. I photograph everyone I know" ( Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz)
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz; genus. October 2, 1949, Waterbury, Connecticut) is a famous American photographer. Specializes in celebrity portraits. Today she is the most sought after among female photographers. Her work graces magazine covers Vogue, Vanity Fair, New Yorker and Rolling Stone, John Lennon and Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg and Demi Moore, Sting and Divine posed nude for her. Annie Leibovitz managed to break the stereotypes of beauty in fashion, introducing elderly faces, wrinkles, everyday cellulite and imperfect forms into the photo arena.
Jerry Gionis
“Take just five minutes a day to try to do the impossible and you will soon feel the difference” ( Jerry Gionis).
Jerry Gionis - top wedding photographer from Australia – a true master of his genre! It is not for nothing that he is considered one of the most successful masters of this trend in the world.
Colbert Gregory
Gregory Colbert (1960, Canada) - a pause in our fast-paced world. Stopping while running. Absolute silence and concentration. The beauty is in silence and stillness. The feeling of delight from the feeling of belonging to a huge living being - planet Earth - these are the emotions that his works evoke. Over the course of 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.
Photography is an incredibly multifaceted art. Magnificent landscapes, photographic portraits, and advertising photographs also attract the attention of the public. Therefore, choosing the best masters is not an easy task.
Our Top 10 included the best photographers of our time in a variety of genres. Their works are known all over the world and are practically recognized as classics of photography.
10. Anne Geddes - best children's photographer
Anne Geddes has been photographing children for 30 years. Books, postcards and calendars with photographs of babies in a variety of images are known all over the world. Many photographers who begin working with children draw inspiration from Geddes’s photographs. Anna's secret to success is simple; she is sure that children are the only real joy in life.
9. Paul Hansen is the best photojournalist
Hansen is one of the most famous photojournalists in the world. Seven times he became the best photographer in Sweden, twice - winner of the prestigious POYi (International Photography of the Year) photo competition. And in 2013, Paul won the World Press Photo competition with a photograph taken at the funeral of two young children killed in Palestine.
8. Terry Richardson - Best Advertising Photographer
Richardson's photographs are sometimes very unusual, but they always attract the eye and are remembered for a long time. Terry's clients include such famous brands as Gucci, Sisley, Levi's, Eres, Miu Miu, Chloe, APC, Nike, Carolina Herrera, Kenneth Cole and many others. Richardson's photographs are regularly published by Vogue, I-D, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Dazed and Confused, W and Purple.
7. Denis Reggie – the best wedding photographer
Reggie has become a revolutionary in the wedding photography industry. After all, it was he who came up with the idea of taking photographs in a reportage style. Denis’s works adorn not only family photo albums, but also the pages of such publications as W, Elle, Vogue, Town and Country, Glamour, and Harper’s Bazaar
6. Patrick Demarchelier - the best fashion photographer
Over his long career, Demarchelier has worked with such publications as Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar. Dior, TAG Heuer, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Celine, Yves Saint Laurent, Calvin Klein, Lacoste and Ralph Lauren ordered their advertising campaigns from him.
5. Yuri Artyukhin - the best wildlife photographer
A researcher at the Laboratory of Ornithology at the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he is a passionate fan of birds. It is the photographs of birds that have repeatedly received prestigious prizes and awards at various competitions in Russia and abroad.
4. Helmut Newton is the best nude photographer
Newton's nude photographs are known throughout the world. For his contribution to the art of photography, Newton was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Order of Arts and Letters, and the Monegasque Order of Arts, Letters and Science.
3. David Dubilet - best underwater photographer
Beneath the surface of the water, Dubile has been working for five decades. His work is often published by National Geographic. David is the winner of many prestigious awards in the field of photography. He films the underwater world both in equatorial waters and under the ice at the north and south poles.
2. Steve McCurry - National Geographic's most famous photographer
Steve became famous for his photograph of an “Afghan girl,” which National Geographic put on the cover in 1985. The picture was soon recognized as the most famous photograph in the history of the magazine. In addition to the famous photograph, McCurry has many excellent works in the genre of photo reporting.
1. Ron Galella - the most famous paparazzi
Garella is a pioneer of the paparazzi industry. Among the stars who became Ron's “victims” are Julia Roberts, Madonna, Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Sophia Loren. Marlon Brando broke Garella's jaw and knocked out five teeth, and Jacqueline Kennedy sued the photographer, who forbade Ron to approach Jackie closer than 20 meters.