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It so happens that we see the war through men's eyes. When talking about war photography, most of us will think of the name Robert Capa, some may think of Don McCullin, some will mention James Nachtwey. But almost no one will name women's names. We decided to correct this situation, show a female perspective on the war and remember famous female photographers on the battlefields.

Gerda Tarot

In 2007, the treasures of the “Mexican suitcase” were presented to the public - about 4,500 lost negatives from the Spanish Civil War. These photographs made it possible not only to see previously unknown photographs of Robert Capa, but also to bring back his close friend, photographer Gerda Taro, from oblivion.

Gerda Taro, or Gerda Pohorille, was a German refugee of Jewish origin. From her youth, she was an activist in the communist movement and did not stop her activities until Hitler came to power. In 1933, she had to leave her homeland and settle in Paris, where she met the young photographer Andre Friedman, a refugee from Hungary. Andre taught her the basics of photography, and together they came up with a character on whose behalf they sold their photographs to newspapers - a young and successful American named Robert Capa. At that time, being American provided great opportunities, and Andre Friedman became truly successful thanks to this pseudonym.

The photographic career of Gerda Taro herself began during the Spanish Civil War and, unfortunately, ended there. Gerda was a fearless photographer and non-professional journalist. She went to war not as a neutral person, but as a political activist and, while on the battlefield, periodically invited the Republicans to attack. From her photographs you can see that she really studied with Capa and fully shared his maxim that a good shot lies in proximity to the subject - she was not afraid to shoot even on the front line.

Ironically, her best photo essay turned out to be her last. In 1937, having arrived in agonizing Spain for the second time, Gerda Taro filmed a major battle - the Battle of Brunete. Having filmed a large report, Gerda rode in the car of the retreating Republicans. The car was involved in an accident and the photographer died from her injuries.

In Paris she was honored as a hero, Alberto Giacometti himself made her tombstone, and Pablo Neruda spoke in memoriam.

Margaret Bourke-White

Unlike Gerda Taro, Margaret Bourke-White consciously built her career as a photojournalist. Beginning in the late 1920s, she was active in photographing industrial themes, was one of the first Western photographers allowed into Soviet industrial sites, and eventually became the first female photojournalist for Life magazine.

Bourke-White often became the first in something, so sometimes she is even called the first female war photojournalist. This is unfair both to Gerda Taro and to Helen Jones Kirtland, who filmed back in the First World War.

At the same time, Margaret Bourke-White became one of the first who began photographing the Second World War and the only Western photojournalist who managed to catch the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow. Here she took slightly surreal photographs of the night bombing, and then went to accompany the Allied troops in North Africa, Italy and Germany, made several reports about the life of American pilots at British bases and, most importantly, recorded the liberation of concentration camp prisoners.

“On that April day in Weimar, there was an atmosphere of some kind of unreality of what was happening, at least, it was this feeling that I stubbornly clung to. I kept telling myself that I would only believe in the indescribable horror when I could look at my own photographs. Using the camera provided some relief. She created a small barrier between me and the nightmare surrounding me.”

The horror of Buchenwald did not force Bourke-White to change her profession and a few years later she again found herself in the middle of a nightmare. This was the time of the division of the former “pearl of Britain” into modern India and Pakistan, a time of massive religious conflicts, “mass exercises in human torment” (as the photographer called those events).

But it didn't end there. Bourke-White willingly went to her second war. Now it was Korea, but here too the photographer stumbled upon almost medieval events - the frame with the head of a North Korean prisoner became a terrible symbol of that fratricidal war.

Lee Miller

Until the 1980s, Lee Miller was mostly talked about in connection with her culinary work, and even her son learned that his mother was an eminent photographer only after her death.

Lee Miller had a difficult childhood: a family friend raped her and gave her gonorrhea when she was just seven, and her father filmed her naked for his experiments with stereoscopic photography from the age of 12. In the 1920s, the already adult Elizabeth moved to New York and worked as a fashion model, but she soon got bored with it and moved to Paris, where she became an assistant, lover and student of the famous Man Ray. She learned the solarization technique from the master, began taking photographs herself, and even completed several photographic works for him. Miller quickly managed to conquer the bohemian Paris of that time: the surrealists, Picasso, Cocteau and many other avant-garde artists were her good friends.

It is noteworthy that Lee Miller got to war thanks to accreditation from Vogue magazine. She arrived right on the heels of American troops and traveled with a Life magazine photographer through France and Germany, photographing the use of napalm at the siege of Saint-Malo, the Battle of Alsace, and the liberation of Paris, Buchenwald and Dachau. Miller took stunning photographs in these camps: a peacefully sleeping drowned SS man, guards begging for mercy, half-dead skeletal people. It seems that surrealism has overtaken her again.

However, Lee Miller's most famous shot was not taken at Buchenwald or Dachau. It became a portrait in the abandoned apartments of Adolf Hitler in Munich. The photo was taken by David Sherman on April 30, 1945, the same day Hitler committed suicide in Berlin.

After the war, Lee began to suffer from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and gave up photography.

Catherine Leroy

A Parisian from a good family, a fragile and petite girl named Catherine studied at a conservative Catholic school, studied music and planned to become a pianist.

Everything was as typical bourgeois parents from a prosperous area would dream, but when the Vietnam War began, young Catherine took her camera and bought a one-way ticket. It was quite an adventurous idea: 21 years old, no experience photographing war, no portfolio as a photographer. On the plane she met a friend of the American journalist Charles Bonney, through whom she received journalistic accreditation. Catherine begins filming, and after some time she manages to get a job at the Associated Press. She was paid only $15 per photograph, but her ability to take exclusive photographs made her work indispensable. In 1967, Catherine became the first paratrooper photojournalist and the only photographer to photograph Junction City, the largest operation of American paratroopers in Vietnam. A little later, she finds herself near the Khen Sanh base in the midst of the “battles for the heights”, where she takes her most famous photograph - “the suffering of an orderly”.

During the hostilities, Leroy is wounded and miraculously remains alive: several fragments of shrapnel fall into her Nikon, and the rest will remain in her body forever. But Catherine continues to film Vietnam and finds herself in territory captured by North Vietnam. At the same time, she not only avoids being captured, but also gets the opportunity to take photographs from the other side - her French passport helps her. Despite the roots of the Vietnam War, her French origin often helped her - during firefights she sang something in French so that they would not shoot in her direction.

After Vietnam, Katrin goes on a short vacation to New York, experiences post-traumatic syndrome and again goes to shoot in hot spots - the fall of Saigon, Northern Ireland, Somalia, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and even Cyprus during the Turkish invasion. In 1982, she again finds herself on the verge of death - militants kidnap her in Beirut and threaten to shoot her, but by some miracle she manages to escape.

Leroy became the first woman to receive the Robert Capa Medal, left many photographs from different parts of the planet and everywhere managed to show her fearlessness, which was so dissonant with her fragility.

Christine Spengler

A native of Alsace got into the profession almost by accident. At the age of 24, she was traveling with her brother in Chad when she suddenly came across a small group of barefoot rebels shooting into the sky in a desperate attempt to hit French helicopters. The wild and slightly strange picture made her not want to go far away, but to record everything on camera. Her brother was working as a fashion photographer at the time, and the camera was at hand. After the incident, Kristin realized what she was interested in in life, and her brother gave her his Nikon, which she worked with for most of her 30-year career. Before this, Spengler had never been interested in photography and did not even really know who Robert Capa was, which allowed her to have her own special, uncluttered look and constantly find special angles and events.

A case in point is the apocalyptic photograph “Bombing of Phnom Penh.”

While all her fellow photographers were relaxing by the pool, claiming that even military personnel relax on Sunday, Spengler succumbed to some instinct and captured one of the best shots of her career. Perhaps the same instinct forced her to choose special objects, to pay attention not only to fighting men, but to women and children, through whom we more clearly read the horror of military operations. From Northern Ireland to Eritrea, from Western Sahara to Afghanistan, from Iran to Cambodia, Spengler saw what others missed. She always stood out with her appearance. Spengler never wore helmets or body armor, only ordinary clothes. The photographer herself says that she was never afraid of death, and in 1973, after her brother committed suicide, she unsuccessfully searched for it for several years.

Francoise Demulder

Another French woman who was greatly influenced by the Vietnam War and the iconic image of children burned by napalm was Françoise Demuelder, nicknamed Fifi. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, worked as a model and, naturally, was a political activist. People like her are called “children of 1968.” But two years later, protests alone were not enough for her, and, inspired by the example of Catherine Leroy, she went on a trip to South Vietnam. Together with her boyfriend, she traveled through areas affected by military operations, took photographs and left them at the Associated Press office. Françoise was lucky: she fell under the wing of Horst Faas, a photographer and head of the AP photography department. She had the right fearlessness and that is why she was the only one who managed to photograph the very end of the Vietnam War. Her first photograph, which received cult status, “The Fall of Saigon,” depicts a North Vietnamese tank routinely entering the territory of the presidential palace in Saigon.

Besides Demulder, only Australian cameraman Neil Davis was able to capture these epochal seconds. However, they say that he did not stay in Saigon for this at all, but because he ordered a suit for himself and did not manage to pick it up in time.

Demulder had an amazing talent for being in the right place at the right time. Just a year after Saigon, she found herself in eastern Beirut and filmed the famous Quarantine massacre. The frame completely changed ideas about the situation in the Middle East - after it, many stopped believing in good Christian Phalangists and bad Muslim Palestinians, and realized that both of them could act as an aggressor. Thanks to this photo, she became the first female World Press Photo laureate and forever became friends with the defender of all Palestinians, Yasser Arafat.

Anya Niedringaus

The death of Anja Niedringhaus made a special impression on many. Firstly, according to the stories of her colleagues, Anya was a very cautious woman, she was a journalist, not an adventurer, and always thought about her safety. Secondly, the events involved a man in the uniform of an Afghan policeman who deliberately and cold-bloodedly shot at journalists.

“I stay close, but most of the time I try to be invisible. I think that's the trick."

Anya's career began at the age of 16 in her hometown of Hester. Anya was asked to write an article about the demonstration, but instead she brought photographs and insisted on publishing them. Since then, she has systematically built her career as a photojournalist. First there was the fall of the Berlin Wall and work at the German EPA, then a year of work in the former republics of Yugoslavia and the Associated Press, where she worked until her death.

In 2005, Niedringhaus won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the war in Iraq, and a little later she took very special footage of a wounded American in Afghanistan. That was the time when she was reporting from a medical evacuation team’s helicopter: almost all seriously wounded soldiers pass through them, some die there during transportation. One of the wounded, a certain Brit Barness, caught Niedringhaus with something. During the flight, she took pictures of him and held his hand, and after that she could no longer get his name out of her head: how was he, was he alive?

After a lengthy search, Anya was able to find the young Marine; by that time, he had undergone numerous operations and even had part of his skull removed, but he recognized Anya and was terribly glad to see her. It's scary because he asked to look at his pictures. Anya took them with her and, as an experienced photographer, knew not to miss the moment. Niedringhaus took a stunning, almost recursive shot of Britt Barness looking at himself - he's alive, but he doesn't seem to understand how it happened.

FAMOUS WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS

Many people know the best female photographer Annie Leibovitz, but there is not much information about the first women who picked up a camera, and their popularity is negligible.

Just imagine the time when photography began to emerge, and you will understand why it was not easy for women photographers to gain authority and respect in the world of photography. The equipment was bulky and heavy, not suitable for the fragile female physique. They had to work with chemicals.

They spent a lot of time and effort to finally get pictures, which, we note, were not always pleasing to the viewer’s eye. In addition, women photographers were simply refused to be taken seriously, perceiving them only as assistants or assistants.

An excellent example of this is this story. When photographer Robert Tytler photographed the ruins left behind by the mercenary mutiny in India in 1858, he was assisted by his wife Harriet. But history prefers not to mention this fact, remembering only the name of Robert Tytler

However, there were many women photographers at the dawn of photography. Neither public opinion nor any other difficulties could stop them. Their main difference from their male colleagues was their iron will, determination and unique (feminine) view of the surrounding reality.

Anna Atkins
(1799–1871)

British biologist Anna Atkins became one of the first women photographers. Fateful, there is no other way to say it, was her acquaintance with Fox Talbot, who was also interested in biology and photography. It was Talbot who told Anna about the process of cyanotype (a method of monochrome photographic printing that produces prints with a blue tint).

Atkins soon began using this method to create perfect images of plants. After all, before this, scientists mainly used sketches. Some time later, in 1843 to be precise, her book “British Algae: Cyanotypes” was published, which became the first book in history illustrated with photographs.

Anna continues to actively use the cyanotopy method, but over time she switches to the photogram method (then known as “shadow photography”), which she subsequently actively uses in her books.

In 1985, Larry Schaaf wrote about her: "Anna Atkins combined a sense of beauty with a keen eye for observation, and she ranks as one of the most significant innovators of photography's early era."

Julia Margaret Cameron
(1815–1879)

Julia Cameron can easily be called the most famous female photographer at the dawn of photography. Actually, for most of her life, Lady Cameron had nothing to do with photography until she received a gift from her daughter - a camera. From that moment on, Julia’s life changed dramatically; photography became for her not just a hobby, but an obsession, the meaning of life.

Lewis Carroll spoke of Lady Cameron's photographs as follows:
“All her photographs are deliberately out of focus - some are very good, others are simply terrible, but she talks about them as if they were masterpieces.”

Technical issues never worried Julia Cameron; her images were never static and were constantly moving, revealing themselves in motion. Cameron never tried to imitate other photographers; she saw the world through the lens in her own unique and irresistible way. Her photographs are impressive; they carry some hidden inner meaning and idea.

Even Victor Hugo himself paid tribute to her, writing to her: “No man has used the rays of the sun as you have done. I bow to you."

In addition, Charles Darwin, Alfred Tennyson, Henry Longfellow and many others appeared in front of her camera lens at different times.

Francis Johnston
(1864–1952)

Famous photographers become famous by chance, and nothing else. Frances Johnston lived and knew no grief until a close family friend, George Eastman (inventor, one of the founders of Kodak), gave her her first camera. Actually, it was from that moment that Johnson’s life changed.

Soon she will travel around Europe as a photographer. Francis works at Eastman Kodak, and already in 1895 he opens his own photographic studio. Johnston, having access to the highest circles of society of the time, captured on film the celebrities of that era. The click of her camera shutter could be heard throughout the White House, earning her the nickname “court photographer.”

Strong-willed and strong, Johnston constantly talks about the important role of women in the rapid development of the art of photography. In 1897, she published an article entitled “What a Woman Can Do With a Camera.”

Everyone has seen these pictures: a selection of the most famous and most impressive photographs that have repeatedly flown around the world.
“The most famous photograph that no one has seen,” is what Associated Press photographer Richard Drew calls his photograph of one of the World Trade Center victims who jumped from a window to his death on September 11

Malcolm Brown, a 30-year-old photographer from New York, followed an anonymous tip to photograph the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc, which became a sign of protest against repression of Buddhists.

The 21-week fetus, which was due to be born last December, was in the womb before spinal surgery began. At this age, the child can still be legally aborted.

The death of the Al-Dura boy, filmed by a television station reporter as he is shot by Israeli soldiers while in the arms of his father.

Photographer Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph "Famine in Sudan," taken in early spring 1993. On this day, Carter specially flew to Sudan to film scenes of famine in a small village.

A Jewish settler confronts Israeli police as they enforce a Supreme Court decision to dismantle nine houses at the outpost of Amona settlement, West Bank, February 1, 2006.

A 12-year-old Afghan girl is a famous photograph taken by Steve McCurry in a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

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

"Unknown Rebel" in Tiananmen Square. This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widene, shows a protester who single-handedly held off a tank column for half an hour.

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

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States. According to the official version, responsibility for these attacks lies with the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda.

Frozen Niagara Falls. Photo from 1911.

April 1980, UK. Karamoja region, Uganda. Hungry boy and missionary. Photo by Mike Wells.

White and Colored, photograph by Elliott Erwitt, 1950.

Young Lebanese men drive through a devastated area of ​​Beirut on August 15, 2006. Photo by Spencer Platt.

The photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head not only won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also changed the way Americans think about what happened in Vietnam.

Lynching, 1930. This photo was taken as a mob of 10,000 whites hanged two black men for raping a white woman and murdering her boyfriend. Author: Lawrence Beitler.

At the end of April 2004, the CBS program 60 Minutes II aired a story about the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison by a group of American soldiers. This became the biggest scandal surrounding the American presence in Iraq.

Burial of an unknown child. On December 3, 1984, the Indian city of Bhopal suffered from the largest man-made disaster in human history: a giant toxic cloud released into the atmosphere by an American pesticide plant killed more than 18 thousand people.

Photographer and scientist Lennart Nilsson gained international fame in 1965 when LIFE magazine published 16 pages of photographs of a human embryo.

Photo of the Loch Ness monster, 1934. Author: Ian Wetherell.

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

Surgeon Jay Vacanti from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1997 managed to grow a human ear on the back of a mouse using cartilage cells.

Freezing rain can form a thick layer of ice on any object, even destroying giant power poles. The photo shows the consequences of freezing rain in Switzerland.

A man tries to alleviate the difficult conditions for his son in a prison for prisoners of war. March 31, 2003. An Najaf, Iraq.

Dolly is a female sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from the cell of another adult creature. The experiment was carried out in Great Britain, where she was born on July 5, 1996.

The Patterson-Gimlin film's 1967 documentary film of a female Bigfoot, the American Bigfoot, is still the only clear photographic evidence of the existence of living relict hominids on earth.

Republican soldier Federico Borel García is depicted facing death. The photo caused a huge shock in society. The author of the photo is Robert Capa.

The photo, taken by reporter Alberto Korda at a rally in 1960, claims to be the most circulated photo in the history of photography.

The photograph showing the hoisting of the Victory Banner over the Reichstag spread throughout the world. 1945 Author - Evgeny Khaldey.

Death of a Nazi functionary and his family. The father of the family killed his wife and children, then shot himself. 1945, Vienna.

For millions of Americans, this photograph, which photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt called “Unconditional Surrender,” symbolized the end of World War II.

The assassination of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John Kennedy, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 local time.

On December 30, 2006, ex-president Saddam Hussein was executed in Iraq. The Supreme Court has sentenced the former Iraqi leader to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out at 6 a.m. in a suburb of Baghdad.

American soldiers drag the body of a Viet Cong (South Vietnamese rebel) soldier on a leash. February 24, 1966, Tan Binh, South Vietnam.

A young boy looks out of a bus loaded with refugees who fled the epicenter of the war between Chechen separatists and Russians, near Shali, Chechnya. The bus returns to Grozny. May 1995. Chechnya

Terry the cat and Thomson the dog are dividing who will be the first to start eating Jim the hamster. The owner of the animals and the author of this wonderful photograph, American Mark Andrew, claims that no one was hurt during the photo shoot.

French photographer Henry Cartier Bresson, who is considered one of the founders of the genre of photo reporting and photojournalism, took this shot in Beijing in the winter of 1948. The photograph shows children queuing for rice.

Photographer Bert Stern became the last person to photograph Marilyn Monroe. A few weeks after the photo shoot, the actress passed away.

There were times when alcohol was sold to children - all the parent had to do was write a note. In this shot, the boy proudly walks home, carrying two bottles of wine to his father.

The English Rugby Championship final in 1975 gave rise to the so-called streaking, when naked people run onto the field in the middle of a sporting event. A fun hobby, and nothing more.

In 1950, at the height of the Korean War, General MacArthur, when the Chinese launched a counteroffensive, realized that he had overestimated the capabilities of his troops. It was then that he uttered his most famous phrase: “We retreat! For we are moving in the wrong direction!”

This photograph of Winston Churchill was taken on January 27, 1941 in a photographic studio in Downing Street. Churchill wanted to show the world the resilience and determination of the British during World War II.

This photograph was made into a postcard and was for a long time the most popular postcard in America. The photograph shows three girls with dolls arguing furiously about something in an alley in Sevilla (Spain).

Two boys collect the fragments of a mirror, which they themselves had previously broken. And life is still in full swing around.

The profession of photographer today is one of the most widespread. Perhaps it would be easier here to become the best of the best at the beginning or middle of the 20th century. Today, when every second or third photographer, well, at least considers himself one, the criteria for good photography, at first glance, are blurred. But this is only at first, superficial glance. Quality standards and focus on talent have not gone away. You always need to keep before your eyes a kind of standard, an example that you can follow. We have prepared for you a list of the 20 best photographers in the world, which will become an excellent tuning fork...

Alexander Rodchenko

Revolutionary photographer. Rodchenko means as much to photography as Eisenstein does to cinema. He worked at the intersection of avant-garde, propaganda, design and advertising.

All these hypostases formed an inextricable unity in his work.

By rethinking all the genres that existed before him, he made a kind of great turning point in the art of photography and set the course for everything new and progressive. The famous photographs of Lily Brik and Mayakovsky belong to his lens.

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

Henri-Cartier Bresson

A classic of street photography. Native of Chanteloupe, Seine-et-Marne department in France. He started out as an artist painting in the “surrealism” genre, but his achievements did not end there. In the early 30s, when the famous Leica fell into his hands, he fell in love with photography forever.

Already in 1933, an exhibition of his works was held at Julien Levy, a gallery in New York. He worked with director Jean Renoir. Bresson's street reports are especially appreciated.

Contemporaries especially noted his talent for remaining invisible to the person being photographed.

Therefore, the unstaged, authentic nature of his photographs is striking. Like a true genius, he left a galaxy of talented followers.

Anton Corbijn

Perhaps, for fans of Western rock music, this name is not an empty phrase. In general, one of the most famous photographers in the world.

The most original and extraordinary photographs of such groups as: Depeche Mode, U2, Nirvana, Joy Division and others were taken by Anton. He is also the designer of U2 albums. Plus he shot videos for a number of teams and performers, including: Coldplay, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, country legend Johnny Cash, thrash metal mastodons Metallica, and singers Roxette.

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

Mick Rock

There are paparazzi photographers who intrude into the personal lives of stars without permission and are mercilessly thrown out of there. And then there are people like Mick Rock.

What does it mean? Well, how can I tell you? Remember David Bowie? Here is Mick - the only person with a lens at the ready who was able to enter the personal space of the discoverer of new musical horizons, the trickster and the Martian from rock music. Mick Rock's photographs are a kind of cardiogram of Bowie's creative period from 1972 to 1973, when Ziggy Stardust had not yet returned back to his planet.

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

Georgy Pinkhasov

An original photographer of his generation, a member of the Magnum agency, a graduate of VGIKA. It was Georgy who was invited by Andrei Tarkovsky to the set of the film “Stalker” as a reporter.

During the years of Perestroika, when the nude genre was a priority among advanced photographers, Georgy was one of the first to draw attention to the importance of a reportage photograph. They say that he did this at the suggestion of Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra.

As a result, today his photographs of that everyday life are not only masterpieces containing authenticity, but also the most important evidence of that era. One of the famous cycles of Georgy Pinkhasov is “Tbilisi Baths”. Georgy notes the important role of chance in art.

Annie Leibovitz

An essential name for our list of the best photographers. Annie made immersion into the life of a model her main creative principle.

One of the most famous portraits of John Lennon was made by her, and quite spontaneously.

“At that time I didn’t yet know how to control models, ask them to do what I needed. I was just metering the exposure and asked John to look into the lens for a second. And clicked...”

The result immediately made it onto the cover of Rolling Stone. The last photo shoot in Lennon's life was also carried out by her. The same photo of a naked John curled up around Yoko Ono, dressed all in black. Who hasn't been captured by Annie Leibovitz's camera: pregnant Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg bathing in milk, Jack Nicholson playing golf in a dressing gown, Michelle Obama, Natalia Vodianova, Meryl Streep. It’s impossible to list them all.

Sarah Moon

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

One can note her sensitive work with models, since Sarah knew firsthand about their profession. Her works are distinguished by their particular sensuality; Sarah is noted for her talent for especially sensitively conveying the femininity of her models.

In the 70s, Sarah left the modeling field and turned to black and white art photography. In 1979 he made experimental films. Subsequently, she worked as a cameraman on the set of the film “Lulu,” which would receive an award at the Venice Film Festival in 1987.

Sally Man

Another female photographer. Native of Lexington, Virginia. She almost never left her native place. Since the 70s, it has essentially worked only in the South of the United States.

He shoots only in the summer; all other seasons he develops photographs. Favorite genres: portrait, landscape, still life, architectural photography. Favorite color scheme: black and white. Sally became famous for her photographs depicting members of her family - her husband and children.

The main thing that distinguishes her work is the simplicity of the subjects and interest in everyday life. Sally and her husband belong to the hippie generation, which has become their signature style of life: living away from the city, gardening, independence from social conventions.

Sebastian Salgado

Magic realist from photography. He draws all his wonderful images from reality. They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

So, Sebastian is able to discern it in anomalies, misfortunes and environmental disasters.

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

Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

Considered a classic of the crime genre in photography. During the period of his active work, not a single urban incident - from a fight to a murder - went unnoticed by Weegee.

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

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

Irving Penn

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

Irwin also liked to photograph representatives of various working professions in their uniforms and with tools at the ready. Brother of New Hollywood director Arthur Penn, famous for his Bonnie and Clyde.

Diane Arbus

Her name at birth was Diana Nemerova. Her family emigrated from Soviet Russia in 1923 and settled in a New York neighborhood.

Diana was distinguished by a desire to violate generally accepted norms and to commit extravagant acts. At the age of 13, against the wishes of her parents, she married Alan Arbus, an aspiring actor, and took his last name. After some time, Alan left the stage and took up photography, involving his wife in the business. They opened a photography studio and shared responsibilities. Creative differences led to a break in the 60s. Having defended her creative principles, Diana became a cult photographer.

As an artist, she was distinguished by her interest in freaks, dwarfs, transvestites, and the weak-minded. And also to nudity. You can learn more about Diana’s personality by watching the film “Fur,” where she was played perfectly by Nicole Kidman.

Evgeny Khaldey

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

Already at the age of 22, he was an employee of TASS Photo Chronicles. He made reports about Stakhanov, photographed the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station. He worked as a war correspondent throughout the Great Patriotic War. Walking from Murmansk to Berlin with his trusty Leica camera, he took a series of photographs, thanks to which today we can at least imagine everyday life in war.

His lens captured the Potsdam Conference, the hoisting of the red flag over the Reichstag, the act of surrender of Nazi Germany and other important events. In 1995, two years before his death, Evgeniy Khaldei received the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Mark Riboud

Master of the reporting genre. His first famous photograph, published in Life, is “Painter on the Eiffel Tower.” Recognized as a photographic genius, Riboud had a modest personality.

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

The most famous photograph is of a hippie girl holding out a flower to soldiers standing with machine guns at the ready. He also has a series of photographs from the everyday life of the USSR in the 60s and a lot of other interesting things.

Richard Kern

And a little more rock and roll, especially since this is the main theme of this photographer, along with violence and sex. Considered one of the most important photographers for the New York underground.

Captured many famous, one might say extremely famous, musicians. Among them is the absolute monster and transgressor punk musician GG Allin. Kern also collaborates with men's magazines, where he submits his erotic works.

But his approach is far from the generally glossy one. In his spare time from photography, he shoots music videos. Among the groups with which Kern collaborated are Sonic Youth and Marilyn Manson.

Thomas Morkes

Do you want peace, silence, or maybe even solitude? Then this is one of the most suitable candidates. Thomas Morkes from the Czech Republic is a landscape photographer who chose the charm of autumn nature as his theme. These photographs have it all: romance, sadness, the triumph of fading.

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

Yuri Artyukhin

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 passionately loves birds.

It was for his photographs of birds that he received (more than once) a variety of awards not only in Russia, but throughout the world.

Helmut Newton

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

Helmut became famous throughout the world for his works. His unspoken motto was the expression “Sex sells,” which means “sex helps sell.”

Winner of the most prestigious competitions, including the French “Order of Arts and Letters”.

Ron Galella

Having covered various areas of photography, one cannot fail to mention the pioneer of such a dubious and at the same time important genre for understanding the modern world as paparazzi.

You probably know that this phrase comes from Federico Fellini’s film “La Dolce Vita.” Ron Garella is one of those photographers who will not ask permission to shoot, but on the contrary, will catch stars when they are not ready for this in general.

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

Guy Bourdin

One of the most important photographers needed for a correct understanding of the world of fashion, its origins and aesthetics. He combines eroticism and surrealism in his works. One of the most copied and imitated photographers in the world. Erotic, surreal. Now - a quarter of a century after his death - it is increasingly relevant and modern.

He published his first photographs in the mid-50s. The photo was, to put it mildly, provocative. A girl in an elegant hat against the backdrop of calf heads looking out of the window of a butcher shop. Over the next 32 years, Bourdain regularly contributed entertaining photographs to Vogue magazine. What set him apart from many of his colleagues was that Bourdain was given complete creative freedom.

We present an overview of the 20 most talented female photographers of the 20th century, who with their creativity made a huge contribution to the development of world photography.

Eva Arnold is an American photographer and photojournalist, the first woman to be a member of the Magnum Photos agency.

Eva became interested in this type of creativity in 1946. She took her first steps in professional photography two years later at Harper’s Bazaar magazine under the guidance of its art director Alexei Brodovich. During her creative career, Eva has worked in China, South Africa, Russia and Afghanistan, photographing a variety of subjects, events and portraits. She became widely known for photographing Hollywood stars and political figures: Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Clark Gable, Malcolm X, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II and others. She was especially famous for her series of portraits of Marilyn Monroe.

In the post-war years, Eva Arnold bore the unofficial title of the grand dame of photojournalism. She is considered one of the creators of the "golden age of news photography", associated with publications such as Life and Look. These magazines attracted attention not so much with their texts as with highly artistic photographs taken by such masters as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Robert Capa and others.

In 1980, the Brooklyn Museum in New York hosted the first solo exhibition of photographs of Eva Arnold taken in China. In 1995 she became a member of the Royal Photographic Society.

“Many of my stories were repeated. I was poor, and it was important for me to capture poverty. I was interested in politics, and I tried to understand how it affects our lives. Finally, I am a woman, and I wanted to learn more about other women,” Arnold said in an interview.

Inge Morath from Austria became a member of Magnum Photos in 1953 and the second female photographer to join this legendary agency.

Inge became interested in light painting in the early 1950s while working in post-war Vienna with photographer Ernst Haas. She was inspired to develop her own creativity by watching the works of the great Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Inge traveled a lot. She visited Europe, Africa, the USA, South America and the Middle East. “Photography is a strange thing... You just trust your eye, but you can’t help but bare your soul,” she once said.

An American photographer and photojournalist, a pioneer of reportage, she became the first female photojournalist for Life magazine. In addition, she was the first Western photographer to visit the USSR in 1930. She can also be called the first woman who was allowed to work at the front. During the Second World War, Margaret photographed very actively and was the only foreign photographer present in Moscow during the attack by Nazi Germany; she later accompanied American troops.

Her book Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly, in which Margaret showed all the horrors of war, gained worldwide fame, and her autobiography A Portrait of Her Own became a bestseller.

As contemporaries noted, Margaret always revealed the objective essence of an event and filmed in such a way that each frame reflected her attitude to what was happening. A master of dynamic journalistic photo essays, she was incredibly insightful and knew how to convey vivid emotions in her photographs. As Margaret herself said, the camera was her salvation, a barrier between her and reality. Today her photographs are kept in US historical museums and the Library of Congress in Washington.

Margaret Bourke-White died at the age of 67 after suffering from Parkinson's disease for a long time.

Lillian Bassman is an American photographer and artist. She was born in New York into a family of Jewish immigrants.

In the 1950s and 60s, Lillian worked at Harper's Bazaar as a fashion photographer and art director, but soon decided to radically change her style and became interested in high-contrast black and white photography. She began using this technique in fashion shoots, thanks to which she gained considerable popularity.

Lillian was very interested in pictorial photography. Perhaps this is what explains the picturesque and graphic nature of her works. She was known as an experimenter who took the time to process frames and tried to shoot out of focus and at long shutter speeds.

Lilian Bassman is often described as a self-taught photographer who, as she herself said, tried to “get rid of the heaviness in photography.”

At the end of her career, Bassman discovered color abstract photography and mastered Photoshop.

Soon Diana began working alone and very quickly found her topic. She showed the world those people when meeting whom most of us look away. Dwarfs, giants, nudists - the gallery of images shown by her is impressive... Being a very sensitive and receptive person, Diana suffered from depression throughout her life, and in 1971 she committed suicide.

In 2004, her photograph Identical Twins sold for almost half a million dollars.

American Vivian Maier, who worked in the genre of street photography, is one of the most mysterious photographers of the 20th century.

She took her first photographs in France at the turn of the 1940s and 50s. In the USA, Vivian began photographing cityscapes and soon bought a Rolleiflex camera. During her life, she did not care about publishing her photographs, most likely regarding them as a hobby.

Vivian Maier's work depicts New York from the 1950s to the 1980s. Thanks to her works, viewers can see the streets of this city of those times. Mayer has a lot of images and photographs. She almost never printed her work, and at the end of her creative career she did not even develop the films, but simply folded them.

Vivian Maier worked as a nanny, and almost no one knew about her passion for photography. According to the testimony of contemporaries who knew her, she was a very modest, secretive and yet eccentric person. So, being very tall, she wore long clothes and large men's shoes, which made her figure even larger and unusual.

In addition to photography, Mayer was interested in cinema and even shot several plotless videos about the life of the city. She also recorded interviews with the people she spoke with. All these works are still in the research stage.

The world owes the unexpected discovery of the name of this photographer to John Malouf, who bought her photographs at auction for $400, not even knowing the value of his acquisition. He counted more than 100,000 negatives, which he is still sorting through and later plans to publish. Since there were a lot of photographs and their storage was difficult, John had to sell some of the photographs to collector Jeff Goldstein.

Lisette Model is an Austrian-born American photographer.

Lisette was born into a good Viennese family and studied music with the famous composer Schoenberg. After her father's death, her family moved to Paris, where she made a living by singing. But very soon the girl got bored with music, and she took up photography.

Lisette studied with Andre Kertesz's first wife, Roja Andre, and it was from her that she learned the main rule: “Never film something that you are not passionately interested in.”

The model is considered one of the founders of street photography, her gaze is always cruel.

She told her students: “Take pictures from your guts!” By the way, the most famous of them, Diane Arbus and Bruce Weber, just managed to find their own style, “shooting with the insides” and showing the world what no one wants to see.

The urban environment was Lisette's main source of inspiration. In her portfolio we see reflections in the windows of skyscrapers, crowds of passers-by, portraits of beggars, and the fading beauty of wealthy ladies. Until 1950, Model’s work was published in the glossy magazines Look and Harper’s Bazaar, and in the post-war years this style was considered too harsh and went out of fashion.

Imogen Cunningham is an American photographer known for photographs of plants, nudes and industry, one of the founders of the informal association of Californian photographers “Group F64”, which included Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke and others.

Imogen Cunningham became one of the first women who dared to call photography her profession. Her career began in 1901 in the studio of Edward Curtis in Seattle, where she printed photographs. In 1909, Imogen went to Germany to study at the Technical High School, and after returning she opened her own portrait gallery in Seattle, which quickly gained fame.

In 1906, Imogen truly shocked the local public by publishing her self-portrait in nude style. Since then, nude photography has become her favorite genre, although not the only one. Many of Imogen's photographs were scandalous.

In the early 1930s, Cunningham joined the F64 Group, whose members promoted photography as a separate art form and focused specifically on photographic aesthetics. After some time, she opened a new gallery and began teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1974, Imogen Cunningham published a retrospective monograph of her photographs. She died in 1976 without completing her last series, Life After 90.

Francesca Woodman (1958–1981)

Francesca Woodman is an American photographer, the daughter of painter and photographer George Woodman and ceramic artist Betty Woodman.

Francesca started taking photographs at the age of 13. She graduated from design school and often visited the Roman avant-garde bookstore-gallery Maldoror, where the first exhibition of her work took place. In 1981, a series of her photographs, “Several Samples of Disturbed Internal Geometry,” was published in Philadelphia, which remained the only publication during her lifetime.

Francesca's work is often called phantasmagorical and even crazy. Very often she herself is present in her photographs. A mystical house with a fireplace, windows and mirrors represents an unfamiliar, frightening world. In a sense, each of her photographs is an attempt to look at her own life as if from the outside, and by observing, to catch the elusive. According to researchers, Woodman’s work was especially noticeably influenced by the painting and photography of surrealism, self-portraits of Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, the works of Hans Bellmer and American masters - Clarence John Laughlin and R. Yu. Meatyard.

In the early 1920s, Ilse Bing collected materials for her dissertation on the history of German architecture. She needed a camera, and soon she came across a Leica - at that time a completely new camera that few people had used yet.

Appreciating the compactness of the camera, Ilsa began to shoot a lot. Soon the level of her skill grew so much that Bing's works began to be published in German periodicals. In 1930, despite her family's resistance, she decided to become a professional photographer and moved to Paris.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Ilse Bing was almost the only professional photographer to use a narrow format camera, and so skillfully at that. This is why they began to call her the “Queen of Leica.” Ilse's works were equally well received by the general public and representatives of avant-garde European art. Her photographs have participated in European exhibitions along with photographs of Man Ray, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

With the outbreak of World War II, Ilse Bing emigrated to the United States, replaced her Leica with a large-format camera, and soon gained fame as a talented portrait photographer. She stopped filming in 1959 and continued to write poetry and paint until her death in 1998.

Elena Mrozovskaya ( died in 1941, the exact year of birth is not established)

An outstanding Russian “light painting artist”, the first official photographer of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, founder of her own artistic and photographic workshop.

Elena began her career working as a teacher and saleswoman. But, always being partial to photography, in 1892 she decided to complete the courses of the V Department of Light Painting at the Russian Technical Society, and immediately after them she received specialized education in Paris from the famous master of photography Felix Nadar. Mrozovskaya is the author of a large number of portraits of famous artists, painters and writers. She was a photographer at the famous costume ball of 1903 in the Winter Palace, and photographed performances at the V. F. Komissarzhevskaya Theater. She was also very good at taking portraits of children.

Now Sabina Weiss is already an undisputed authority in the world of photography, whose exhibitions are invariably sold out, and many of the photographs she took are stored in museums around the world - in New York, Paris, London, Zurich, Chicago, Kyoto... A vivid illustration of her talent is the story of one of the most famous photographic exhibitions in history. We are talking about the Family of Man biennale that took place in 1955, for which a variety of photographers from all over the world contributed over 2,000,000 images. However, the final version of the exhibition included only 503 works, and the author of three of them was Sabine Weiss.

She herself admits that she was always most interested in the naturalness of the situation and the true feelings of people. And therefore, in general, she does not hide her cool attitude towards modern photography, which, in her opinion, is too keen on constructing the frame and the objects in it.

Sarah herself jokes that the reason for the blurry pictures is her myopia: she allegedly simply could not bring the lens into focus. Sarah Moon shoots almost exclusively black and white photographs, considering color to be completely unnecessary to convey the idea of ​​​​the photograph. She has a large number of exhibitions to her name and has received numerous awards for her work, for example, the Clio Award as the most creative French photographer.

Now a famous American photographer, in her youth she received a bachelor's degree in literature from Hollins College, but still decided to connect her life with photography. Her creative career began with a nude photo of a classmate. This is probably where Sally’s scandalous fame originates.

At the beginning of her work, Sally studied in a small room measuring 5 x 7 meters, which her father provided her with. There she conducted her experiments using old photographic equipment.

Popularity came to her after the publication of a series of photographs “Immediate Relatives”, which consisted of 65 frames, which mostly depicted members of Sally’s family on vacation. Very often she created something that was not always understood in society. For example, Sally did not at all consider her photographs of her own naked children, which were criticized by many, to be something unnatural. She took on different genres of photography, including landscapes, which also sometimes aroused polar opinions.

In 2001, Sally Mann was awarded the title of America's Best Photographer. It seems that this woman cannot be stopped: in 2006, she was injured while horse riding, but even while undergoing treatment, she made several interesting self-portraits.

German Astrid Kirchherr is known as an artist and personal photographer of The Beatles.

Astrid became interested in black and white photography immediately after graduating from school, although she planned to become a fashion designer. After several years of study, she worked for four years as an assistant to her photography teacher, Reynard Wolf.
Astrid was “introduced” to the legendary Beatles by her friend Jürgen Vollmer, who himself once went to a concert of the young group completely by accident. As the girl’s friends recalled, her mere appearance at the club always attracted all attention to her. One day she asked the musicians if they would like her to do their photo shoot. They, of course, agreed, because at that time they did not have professional photographs. The very next morning, Kirchherr photographed The Beatles with a Rolleicord camera.

Throughout her life, Astrid maintained friendly relations with this group. She is considered the inventor of The Beatles' unusual hairstyles, although she herself denies this fact.

In 1964, Kirchherr became a freelancer. With her colleague Max Scheler, she photographed The Beatles during the filming of A Hard Day's Night for the German magazine Stern.

Kirchherr later said how difficult it was to become a female photographer in the 1960s: “The editors of every newspaper or magazine demanded that I photograph The Beatles again and again. Or they asked permission to publish old photos of the band, even if they were poorly taken and unclear. Nobody wanted to look at my other works. It was very difficult for a girl photographer to make a living back then. In the end I gave up. Since 1967, I haven’t shot almost a single frame.”

It is known that Kirchherr decided to make a collection of photographs “When We Was Fab” (2007) as her last publication: “I finally created a book completely myself. A book with my favorite photographs, designed the way I designed them, right down to the captions and cover design... This book is me. Therefore, she will be the last. The very last one,” Astrid said.

Nina Sviridova (1933–2008)

A teacher of Russian language and literature at school, one day she picked up a camera to, together with her husband Dmitry Vozdvizhensky, show the world a whole gallery of beautiful images of Soviet reality. For the first time, Nina Sviridova’s professionally executed works were published in 1961 in the Teacher’s Newspaper. The editors of the Sputnik newspaper immediately noticed this wonderful “transformation of an amateur into a professional, a teacher of the Russian language into a professor of photography.” In the same year, her photograph “At the Kremlin Wall” appeared in “Soviet Photo”.

Nina Sviridova and Dmitry Vozdvizhensky were rightfully included in the honorary list of that era along with V. Gende-Rothe, N. Rakhmanov, V. Akhlomov, G. Kolosov, L. Sherstennikov, E. Kassin, V. Reznikov and many other masters, whose works decorated newspaper and magazine pages and exhibition halls of domestic and foreign photographic exhibitions during the thaw period.

Nina Sviridova traveled a lot, she visited all corners of the Soviet Union: Transcarpathia, the Urals, Belarus, the Baltic states...

The creative union of the spouses lasted about 40 years. Nina Sviridova defined her attitude towards photography this way: “It seems to me that every photojournalist, in addition to working on an editorial assignment, must necessarily work on his own topic, especially close to him. For me it was human happiness. I love the manifestation of optimism in people, a joyful, bright perception of the world around them.”

Nina Sviridova and Dmitry Vozdvizhensky did not change this postulate all their lives.

Victoria Ivleva is one of the most prominent Russian photojournalists. Having graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University in 1983, she very quickly gained considerable authority among her colleagues.

Photographer Victoria Ivleva at the turn of the 80s and 90s of the last century, she worked in all the hot spots of the USSR, and then Russia. In 1991, Victoria became the only journalist to film inside the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. For this material she received the most prestigious award for a photojournalist - the World Press Photo Golden Eye.

For more than 25 years, Svetlana Georgievna worked as a leading specialist in the photography department of the State Russian House of Folk Art. Currently - Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, curator of children's and youth photography, jury member, participant and prize-winner of international, all-Union, Russian photo exhibitions, festivals and competitions.

Svetlana is the author of numerous articles and publications on photography, author of books: “Photobook” (co-authored with A. Agafonov), publishing house “Children’s Literature” (1993), “Photomaster”, Moscow, publishing house “Penta” (2001) , “Photographer’s School. Anthology of children's and youth photography", "Gallery of Photomasters", Moscow, publishing house "GALART" (2008) "School of Photographer" (2nd edition), Moscow, publishing house "Indexmarket" (2012).

More than 20 personal exhibitions of Svetlana have been held throughout Russia and abroad. Her works are kept in the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Pushkin Museum), the State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA), as well as in private collections. Svetlana taught photography at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Russian State University for the Humanities), and at the Izvestia School of Journalism she taught courses on Fundamentals of Composition and Stylistics of Photography.

In the world art of the second half of the 20th century, it is difficult to find a celebrity who would not be captured by the camera of the Honored Artist of Russia Galina Kmit. She knows very well what it's like to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.

Exhibitions of photographs by Galina Kmit have been organized dozens of times in Russia and around the world. Galina’s photographic series “These Magnificent Men” and “My Rivals,” dedicated to famous artists, became especially popular.

She is called a living legend of photography. And she herself treats this very reservedly. Here, for example, is what Galina said in an interview with a correspondent of the Teacher’s Newspaper: “Maybe I really am a legend, you never know what happens in the world. Your brother the reporter did his best here. Someone once called me that and off we go. And I don’t mind, it’s not offensive. And who could have imagined that everything would turn out this way. I was first a writing correspondent, I started in my native editorial office of Moskovsky Komsomolets...”

Galina Vasilievna’s achievements are not limited to just photographs of stars. A true chronicler of photographs, she visited every corner of the Soviet Union. At the exhibition “Russia is my homeland” her beautiful works from Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Komi were presented...

“It’s always a shame when people think of me that I only shoot stars. I risked my life and almost died in the tundra when our helicopter made an emergency landing. I sat there for 19 hours, almost died from the cold, and pulled on some flea-infested skins. The guys drank some alcohol and were fine. And I only had a can of condensed milk. But they were looking for us, and the helicopter with the correspondent disappeared. Found. And by that time, you can imagine, I had already written a will; my son was small. In all seriousness, I thought it was all over. No one knows about this, but they know what Depardieu filmed. It’s a shame,” Galina told the same Teacher’s Newspaper.

Decisive, strong-willed, talented - Galina’s merits can be listed for a long time.

“I don’t think paparazzi are bad. Nothing like this. A paparazzi is a person who performs his duties professionally. Another thing is ethics, journalistic, human. I can film everything, but I can’t publish everything,” Galina once shared her opinion.

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is a famous American photographer who is known mainly for her portraits of celebrities. Today she is recognized as the most sought-after female photographer. Annie Leibovitz's fame is so great that it has transformed into a different quality: some of her works simply separated from the personality of the creator and began to live their own life.

Annie Leibovitz was born in 1949 in the USA in the state of Connecticut. Her father was a military man, and the family often moved from place to place. Annie later said that it is not difficult to become an artist if from early childhood you see the world in a ready-made frame, through a car window. The family eventually returned to the United States, and Annie entered the San Francisco Art Institute in 1967, intending to become an art teacher. A year later, she also enrolled in photography courses, where they not only taught theory, but also sent students out into the streets, and in the evening they discussed the photographs taken. In 1969, Annie dropped out of school and went to Israel on an archaeological expedition. Oddly enough, it was there that her desire to become a photographer grew stronger.

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