For each individual person, photography has a special meaning. Photography is special memories, disturbing the past. A certain art that must be learned in order to create truly amazing masterpieces. A wonderful way to capture the present, so that after a while, with pleasure, remember how and what you lived.
Not a single holiday, not a single trip, not a single significant event in life can do without photographs. For many people, even every day they live is accompanied by photographs. And this is not surprising, because taking a photo is very simple, but then a person gets a lot pleasant emotions and memories.
As you all know, even before the creation of cameras, people used to draw pictures to capture the present. It could be portraits, landscapes, still lifes and the like. And of course it took great amount time, effort and resources. For example, in order to convey to the future what this or that commander looked like, it was necessary, first, to prepare the canvas, dilute the paint, stock up on extreme perseverance, both for the artist and the person from whom, in fact, the portrait was written off.
Cameras in modern world, of course, greatly facilitate the process of capturing the present. Today they are literally in everyone's pocket. After all, they are so unobtrusive, small in size, which greatly facilitates our lives. Need to take a picture of a beautiful view from the window? Please! Need to take a picture of a document urgently? Nothing complicated. We can also easily take a picture of ourselves if we suddenly want to - and even this is now possible.
For the first time, photography appeared in connection with the creation of the first camera in 1826, thanks to J. Niferson Niepce. It was he who invented the camera, at that time, the first in the history of mankind. But this device was quite bulky and took up a lot of space, so the camera began to be improved, which was then called photo apparatus construction. Over time, the size of such devices gradually decreased, the technique created more and more high-quality photographs. George Eastman and J. Louis Daguerre also contributed to the development of photography.
Now, as we can see, the camera is built into almost any cell phone, which is very convenient. But of course the most quality cameras, "live" on their own; they are a good tool for creating amazing photos.
Photography as an art appeared in the 1920s and 1930s - communities of artists began to emerge with the goal of turning just photography into an art form.
And now, the creativity of many people includes photography, because it combines lightness and simplicity of creation, as well as beauty and magnificence. It is with the help of photographs that you can remotely visit different parts of the Earth, contemplate the splendor of Niagara Falls, or see the Earth from space. You just need to go online and type in the search engine what you are interested in. The Internet will give you a huge amount various photos, not inferior to each other in beauty, quality and elegance.
As creativity, photography is quite easy and interesting, because it is not difficult for a person to properly set up the camera, focus clarity and press the shutter button. Nowadays, many travelers have a huge number of different photographs in their arsenal: from rare plants and animals to any canyons and gorges, because it is impossible not to photograph something interesting when you have a camera at hand.
Most likely, photography will exist in our world for a very long time, and maybe something better and more entertaining will take its place. In any case, today it is a branch of invention and creativity, which is actively used in everyday life, simplifying it and making it more interesting.
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According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, a civil passport must be obtained upon reaching the age of 14. According to statistics, a quarter of the country's population is embarrassed to show their documents because of a bad picture. However, We will help you avoid such trouble and take an excellent photo on the document in the Queen.
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Over time, we have learned to catch moments of manifestation of any emotions. A photograph may simply contain some visual information, for example, advertising a fashionable salon of curtains, or serve as a carrier of identification of a fact or person - a photo essay or a photo in a passport.
Photography is a language that speaks at the level of emotions. Moreover, this language is quite strong. Sometimes it causes such excitement in the viewer, such a storm of feelings that in some cases a person begins to cry, in others - loudly and sincerely, from the heart, laugh ... The language of photography can tell the story of not only one particular person, but also a whole family, a whole kind, and sometimes even the whole of mankind. Photography shows us the world as it was the second the picture was taken. And this imprinted world remains with us forever.
1. Photographs tell us what matters most to us.
If you ask someone what exactly of his things he will save in a critical situation, then most likely they will answer you: a photo album or a computer hard drive on which family photos are recorded in digital form. In the event of a panic, a person always grabs for what is most dear to him. And most of the time it's not money, not Jewelry, but photographs of loved ones, pictures that contain a piece of the past, a piece of bygone days of life.
By photographing, we document our lives. We capture the most important, most significant moments of it. Weddings and anniversaries, the birth of children, housewarming, holidays in distant cities and countries ... All this has for us great value. These photos are our history, the history of our family. In these frames, each of us is captured in different years life. A very young grandmother, even before the war, in a beautiful dress with polka dots - and now she is already in her advanced years: wrinkles, kind eyes ...
Hundreds, thousands of frames add up bit by bit to the life story of each of us.
2. Photography is a piece of human heritage
Surely every person, at least living in the USSR, and then in Russia, that's for sure, took part in group photographs. For example, at school. Remember: we, still children, were lined up in three or four rows, in the center stood or sat teachers, the director of the school ... We then posed motionlessly, sometimes we felt constrained. After all, at that moment we didn’t even think about the fact that looking into the camera lens, we looked into eternity! But these school photographs will outlive us ... After many years, and maybe many decades, somewhere in the attic or in the closet of the old, among a pile of yellowed papers, our children or grandchildren will find these photographs and recognize their ancestors on them. They will see their fathers and mothers, grandmothers and grandfathers very young. The significance of these photographs is very, very great for each of us. After all, they displayed a stopped moment past life. No wonder they say: "stop, a moment, you're fine!".
Family photos are pieces of our life...
3. Photos help us communicate
There are many sites on the Internet where people share their photos. These photographs are very diverse: sometimes they are very personal, emotional: passionate, sad… Sometimes they are bizarre and funny, sometimes they depict some interesting places, interesting people… With the help of such photographs, we exchange with other people our impressions of what we are experiencing. .
4. Photography reveals the artist in each of us.
Photography today has become technically accessible, which gives us a great opportunity for our own self-expression. Self-expression through visual arts. Many of us, picking up a camera, begin to notice how sweet and clean the faces of children are, how wise the eyes of old people are, how beautiful the expanses of nature around us are, how our minds are impressed by the colors of golden autumn ... I immediately want to start creating beautiful photographic pictures. At such moments, we begin to feel like creators, artists.
5. Photography is a very complex language
Through photography, its author can express the whole palette of human feelings. Surprise, empathy, joy, sadness, sadness, tenderness… Many human emotions can be reflected in one frame. For example, not everyone will appreciate a landscape that is photographed on a cloudy day. They want to see the surrounding nature joyful, in a riot of many colors, and not gray and sad. But if there are no bright and saturated colors in the landscape, this does not mean that life has gone out of it! It's just that in this landscape life is different: quiet and calm, slowly flowing.. And if you take a picture of a storm, a thunderstorm... That's where you can see the power of nature, its power!
If one of your loved ones suddenly has a sad mood - show him bright and sunny photos! And the mood of a person will immediately rise noticeably!
Photography allows us to express what sometimes cannot be expressed in words when our vocabulary runs out. Photography speaks to us in its own visual language.
6. Photography changes us
A photographic image always attracts the attention of a person. It speaks directly to his emotions. Look, for example, at military photographs, or at pictures taken at moments of tragedies, natural disasters. One such image, one eyes of a person crying for help, can say so much... It works on a more subtle level, on the level of our subconscious. Grieve, misfortune, tragedy is subject to wash away everything colorful and beautiful from our lives. There is no and cannot be a way to restore color, light and joy in such photographs. These photos change our minds. There is no need to look for colors in this flashy black and white. But this severity and vital truth, nevertheless, are able to lead us to color. To the light in life.
In moments of sorrow, a photographic image can revive in us hope for a wonderful future. For the future, in which both color and light will appear.
Launching among the best family photographers of ours, from the very beginning we planned a series of publications about how important this genre is and why. In today's first article, we tried to find answers to the following questions: why and for whom do we need children's and family photography? What does it mean for the child and parents? What is its place among other genres of photography? Leading photographers of the country, members of the Russian Photo club share their thoughts.
“Our great-grandchildren need a family photo. Very needed. Just as we cherish those crumbs inherited from the great-grandfather of the pre-war period. We need it as a biography. It is needed, like a time machine, transferring to bygone times. It is necessary as a connection of times - past, present and future.
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“A family photo is not just a photo for memory, it is a mood, feelings, atmosphere, carefully preserved for yourself and your children. A family photo album is a family history that must be preserved; it is a wonderful tradition that helps to strengthen the family. Looking at the photographs of grandparents, faded from time to time, we are surprised to find common features with them, we guess the heavy character of the great-grandfather by the look, and by the style of the dress we notice that the great-grandmother was a fashionista. Family photography is our family tree, which can be studied not only by the family tree.”
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“A family photo is needed because it gives a sense of the wholeness of one's family. Understanding that grandparents are not characters in fairy tales, but real people that in childhood they gave their grandchildren and great-grandchildren their love. Such knowledge of one's own roots is very important for a child who is beginning to grow up, for the formation of his character, personality and values.
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“First of all, a child’s photograph is not needed For what And For what, A for whom! It is necessary for the children themselves, and this is obvious. Do any of you remember yourself at 3 years old, at 8 years old, at 12? That's it yourself? For example, I don't. I remember how I treated myself at a certain age, but how I looked was very vague... I only remember myself and my parents from the frames they took, and what a pity I am that there are very few of these pictures! But then the whole photography was on a completely different level. Now everything has changed, it has become more accessible than ever. And you should not miss this opportunity to let your children look at themselves from the outside. Today or decades from now, a photograph of yourself as a child will evoke a flurry of emotions and memories of a time, a place, an event. And then I, an adult, will not regret that there is very little photo memory of childhood left. Take pictures of your kids! They need it!”
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“I think that this is the only way, apart from paintings, to stop time... A happy time in the life of a child in a family, funny moments of childhood, tenderness between parents. Years go by, and everything changes, relationships within the family can, God forbid, become difficult. And perhaps, by picking up photographs of past years and remembering the old days filled with love, people will be able to reflect and try again to change their feelings, revive hopes and aspirations...
When I was little, my favorite pastime was looking at yellowed photographs of my then-young grandparents. It's great that they have so many pictures! I was surprised to find a little chubby girl in their arms. Turns out it was my mom! But if there weren’t these photos, I wouldn’t be able to touch the past of my family, I wouldn’t be able to convey to my children the love story of my grandparents, mom and dad. Family photography is a link between generations.”
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“Our life is fleeting, and what seems to us eternal and unshakable today, tomorrow becomes only a memory. In the family archive, we keep a storehouse of the best memories and the happiest moments in life: the birth of a child, discharge from the hospital, the first photo session of the baby, the first shooting of the whole family ... Family photography becomes more and more valuable over the years, because only with its help we can mentally return to the past.
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“Family photography helps preserve family history visually. This is especially important for children. Remember, each of us has cute and such native images from our childhood, which fade over the years, are erased from our memory. Photography documents these images, which means it helps to keep in touch with our past, with our roots, with the house where we grew up, with previous generations. Family album shots will take our children back to a time when they were undeniably happy and give them the strength to move on. For parents, a family photo will become a saga about the love and beauty of happy loved ones, about the growing up of children, about bright moments spent together. Family pictures will warm the hearts of matured children when they begin an independent life. And it is very important to print photos, preferably in the format of photo albums, which will then be folded into a real family archive. The pages of these albums will remember the warmth of the hands that leafed through them, and they will generously share them.
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Family photography is also in everyday life, capturing ordinary, but very personal events that make up the history of the family with one's own eyes. These are not pictures of how we looked and what we were wearing, these are pictures of the real us. Surely many people have such shots, and we value them not only because we, our children or relatives are on them. They are dear to us, because they contain our life experience, they are our connection with time, cities and countries, events, people. At the level of sensations, we remember the smallest details, characters, actions, feelings of the captured moment.
I would not like to talk about sad things, but this is important: unfortunately, we are all not eternal. This is where family photography is important. If you want, this is the very trace that we leave behind. We remember and honor our departed loved ones, tell children about them, show them what they were like. It seems to me that this is an important moment in every family - to preserve and increase family memory. After all, knowing our past, we live in the present and build our future. Each photo is a piece of family wealth. Family albums filled with life, traditions, unique moments are a unique legacy for future generations.”
Natalya Andersen:
“Happy is the one who is happy in the family! And so that this happiness can be seen, touched and experienced again, in my opinion, a family photo was invented. These are such rays of warmth and light, the connection of generations on paper. Leafing through a family album, looking at touching children's faces, at young grandparents - and you immediately remember something long forgotten, but so tender and dear, and you understand that you are not alone. At such moments, you believe and know that everything will be fine, because love lives here. Let there be more of it both in life and in photographs.
Olga Lebedeva :
“In fact, a family photo is not needed ... It is necessary! This is a kind of spiral with many turns, each of which is a generation. One turn fell out - and there is no spiral ... This is a memory, this is an opportunity to go back. This is the key to a conscious future. We must know who our forefathers were, how they lived, how they lived! What they put on, how they laughed, how they played, cried, felt sad... This is our life. Family photography has its continuation in the family album. Each individual picture is a whole world, a whole life! It is necessary to preserve and increase this knowledge. It is necessary to develop in our environment the value and significance of family photography. Why is she needed? In fact, the answer to this question is very simple: for our peaceful future. We just know the most important thing: we have a family. And the family photo album is the main confirmation of this!
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“It seems to me that despite the fact that Lately family photo archives have somewhat lost their popularity, family photography is of great importance in our lives. A good family album is a treasure. It not only allows you to recall some event, family history, but also reflects emotions and inner world people and even their attitude to their past. If you make such an album with love, interesting and of high quality both in content and design, it will really become a real family value and, it seems to me, will even strengthen family relationships.”
“The only thing of value in life is love. And our path is relationships with people. Time overwrites the visual range, and only flashes of light in the soul from the brightest moments of life remain. Photography gives you the opportunity to relive the happy and unique moments of your life. Everything is said in the famous song: “For everything to be repeated from the beginning, look in the family album. To remember what we were, save the family album. For me, in my old age, the family album will be of the greatest value, of material assets, Certainly. The family album is such a time machine, and where it takes you back depends on the photos that make up your family album.”
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“From childhood, I remember the photographs of my grandfathers and grandmothers, cracked, torn in places ... I remember how I carefully sorted them out in boxes, and then, together with my mother, inserted them into albums with and without corners, with windows, with thick cardboard pages. This is where family history is preserved! Awareness of the significance and value of photography appeared in me back then and is growing every year. My family history is also “written” in a similar book, and the visual chronicle is permanent. I shoot everywhere, all our holidays, walks and trips; I can't even imagine that some event will not be captured... And family values are everything in this life!
Becoming a wife and mother, I realized what peace is in my soul! Family is a world where it is easy and simple to be together, sometimes to be silent and hear each other; these are caring hands covering you with a blanket on winter evenings; these are joint discoveries and travels; these are books read aloud; it is tenderness and understanding; it's looking in one direction. When shooting family photo stories, I try to convey all this in my works, to catch a clear and at the same time invisible thread, the energy that unites loving and beloved people. And I am happy that I capture this connection forever, these emotions for my heroes in photographs, and over time, the frames become priceless. Many years later, they themselves, their children and grandchildren will look at and sort through photographs, remember, be sad and rejoice ... All this is very simple, and this is love, family, life!
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“For me, photography is a small story, a moment of life preserved as a keepsake. Our life is fleeting, days fly by after days, and sometimes just looking at old pictures, we remember different moments and our emotions ... Happy, magical, or maybe a little sad, but still touching and loved. A family photographer is a person who will preserve the history of your family. He, like a chronicler, will be there, collecting grains of your emotions and smiles, weekdays and holidays. Your meetings, walks, the first steps of children, their pranks and games. And I wish everyone to become this person professional photographer so that your pictures are really high-quality and harmonious.
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“Every moment of life is unique and, alas, fleeting. And sometimes, in order to remember the joyful moments spent with your family and friends, you just need to look into the family album. It is he who keeps the first steps of your baby, the touching love for your soulmate, the secret sacraments of the wedding or baptism of the child. As a children's and family photographer, I see my goal in the most accurate reflection of such fleeting moments. My work is based on absolute naturalness. The more alive the photo and sincere emotions on it, the brighter your memories will be, the more interesting it will be for you to share them with others, to pass the album from generation to generation.”
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“A family album is like a first and last name: it contains the history of a family, clan and entire generations. It is like orders or medals of grandparents; like diplomas or school certificates of parents; like an old great-grandmother's wedding dress; like the tune that played at the first school party; like a strand of hair or a child's first tooth that falls out. All these particles form the character and values of your family and your clan.
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“In this age of public digital technology and millions of digital files, family photography is needed more than ever. One. Big. Printed on paper or canvas, beautifully framed and hanging on the wall in the most prominent place. And it must change along with the ongoing changes in the family. It is even better if it is a “laughing” photo of all family members, which will not leave anyone indifferent. Such a photo is very energizing for the positive of everyone around. Look around, do you have family photos at home?
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Why is a family photo needed? To hide in a family album the first smile, the first step, warm hugs and the smell of summer. And then open it and plunge into the memories, relive and feel them again and again.
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“A family photo is a documentary evidence of family history. Why is it needed? First, it is curious: what was before you? What were you like 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago? What were your father, grandfather, great-grandfather like? Anyone who has ever watched a family album knows that it is incredibly exciting. Secondly, we are all inextricably linked with our past, the loss or oblivion of which can lead to a crisis, for example, an existential one. And thirdly, photography is the only time machine known to us now. Isn't it great to give your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren the opportunity to make exciting journeys into the past?
Family photos are pieces of the puzzle, parts of the picture of our world, our family and, as a result, ourselves.”
Photography is primarily an art, albeit a relatively young one! As in any art, every time has its heroes! Like Rafaelo in painting, Pushkin in literature, Bach in music. In addition, photography has a very important historical value. She carries history, faces, events through time. emotions. Photography carries a huge amount of information. In this article, we will get acquainted with photographers of different times, look at the features of their work, and they, in turn, will share their invaluable experience with us.
In today's world, everyone has a camera and not one important event in our life goes without photography. With the advent digital cameras and programs for editing the importance (price) of the ability to catch the moment, to see further than the average man in the street has receded into the background.
Ivan Fedorovich Barshchevsky
(1851-1948)- Patriarch of Russia architectural photography , which captured on film thousands of national cultural heritage sites across the country.
“This very skillful and diligent photographer decided to shoot everything remarkable in terms of ancient Russian architecture, everything that is important and interesting for this science, but has not yet been published anywhere” (1880s).
"AND. F. Barshchevsky developed a method for photographing an architectural monument, which is still used by photographers today. The master shoots the building from various most advantageous points, then the parts of the facade are photographed, then the interior and its details, everything ends with photographing the decor of the walls and utensils that fill the interior. Barshchevsky's works are not monotonous, since for each object he found a special shooting point, showing all the beauty and originality of the building.
BenjaminLeontievichMetenkov
(March 25 (April 6 ) 1857, Miass, Russia - March 9, 1933, Sverdlovsk listen)) is a well-known Uralic photographer , entrepreneur and photo chronicler Ural.
He removed most of the Ural factories and settlements, mines and mines, cities, mountains, rivers; showed the working and living conditions of miners in the late XIX - early XX century. One of the first began to publish postcards with views of Yekaterinburg. He left behind a large collection of photographs, postcards with views of the Urals.
He was a pioneer of filming in the Urals.
Denier, Andrei Ivanovich
(1820- 1892) is a photographer from Saint Petersburg. One of the leading portrait painters of the 19th century. Known for portraits of artists.
Denier's workshop differed markedly from others in "its artistic direction," as S. L. Levitsky later wrote in his memoirs. Denier approached his work creatively, as an artist, he applied to portrait photography the knowledge he received at the Academy.
The method found by Denier was used mainly when printing large-sized photographs, he softened the very protocol sharpness in portraits, which caused the most attacks on light painting.
In his daily work, Denier paid a lot of attention to retouching prints (positives). The shutter speed allowed at that time when shooting was not enough to work out the details of the image in the pictures. If the shutter speed was too long, some details were worked out in the shadows, but the face came out without halftones. With a short shutter speed, the highlights were well worked out, but details, halftones in the shadows disappeared. Photographers-artisans retouched badly.
Cameron, Julia Margaret
(June 11, 1816, January 261879) is an English photographer of the Victorian era.
She always sought to find the soul in the one she photographed. In her hands, the camera proved to be the perfect tool for capturing the characteristic expressions on her faces. intellectual heroes. Her studio was her gallery of saints: she created icons for worship. Photos same ordinary people were comparatively uninteresting, they were simply registration cards bearing nothing but blurry portraits of people she clearly did not idolize.
Felix Beato
(1832 - January 29, 1909) - traveler and one of the first British photographers who started filming East Asia , and also one of the first war photographers. Known for his panoramas, genre works, portraits, views and landscapes of the Mediterranean and Asia. His work highlightsCrimean War ,Indian national uprising of 1857 , the Second Opium War, and the Boshin War.
The greatest contribution of Felix Beato is that with the help of his photo essays, Europeans got the opportunity to learn about the life of people of a completely different culture, other countries and continents, to find out what was happening in the world, and modern humanity It has visual representation about the customs and traditions of their ancestors. Felix Beato influenced a whole generation of photographers who either worked with him or saw his work, including James Robirthwon, Kusakaba Kibney, Hugo Kraft, Raimund von Stillfried, and others. Felix Beato at the same time showed that, despite the completely imperfect equipment, he achieved very quality image in photographs, conveying the mood, style, and worldview of the author, paid attention proper lighting, the location of objects and people. Felix Beato often photographed the local population in such a way as to depict architectural or topographic features, so sometimes people (or other moving objects) came out blurry or translucent. Such blurring is generally characteristic of photographs of the 19th century. Felix Beato mainly worked with albumin silver prints made from glass negatives made by the macrocollodyne process. Also, Beato was one of the first to master and apply the technique of color printing and toning Felix Beato, again, one of the first to shoot panoramas, where he also achieved amazing quality for that time, panoramas were obtained with virtually no seams and joints.
Currently, his photographs are in very many private collections, as they were reprinted both by the author himself and by the new owners for subsequent sales.
photographer and graphic designer
Perhaps the most famous photographic project of Adam Magyar so far is the project called “Squares” (“Squares”). This is a series of panoramic photographs that tells about the daily life of a large metropolis. Magyar traveled to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Calcutta, New York and Tokyo to create these unique photographic images, everywhere encountering the near-Brownian movement of thousands of people on city streets. A pedestrian in a crowd of thousands is comparable to a small insect, which in a minute disappears from your field of vision and therefore it is completely impossible to see. Each panoramic photo image from the Hungarian photographer's project was stitched together using the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop from several dozen frames taken from a height of three to four meters. The resulting photographs have a very high resolution, which allows a good view of each pedestrian in the city square separately.
« Simplify, simplify, simplify ”- such a concise instruction was formulated by Andre Kertes for novice photographers.
I don't adjust or calculate, I watch a scene and know it's perfect, even if I have to step back to get the right light. The moment dominates my work. I shoot how I feel. Everyone can look, but not everyone can see.
His style, which became characteristic of that time, was later adopted by many reporters. He developed his own technique of preliminary construction of the composition. It consisted in pre-selecting a place in the frame where the desired object was supposed to appear, and at the moment when he was there, the photographer pressed the shutter button.
a good photo always has something to say
Ara Guler is the most famous representative of creative photography in Turkey
He calls himself a photojournalist, not a photographer or photo artist, because Ara Güler does not consider photography to have any artistic value. This does not prevent him from creating highly artistic images that are exhibited around the world.
What is the difference between Ara Guler and other photographers? Of course, in his unique author's vision of reality: “The world revolves around me. And when something happens in this world that really hurts or touches me, I press the shutter button. For me the most important is the "event", "moment". This "event" should not be missed. As a photographer who shoots people, I want to capture their joy, sorrow, their attitude to life, their fears, everything that is inherent in a person. What matters to me is that human dramas will live on for centuries to come. After all, photography is a way of preserving information, and it must preserve something, some drama, if it is important. And such a photo can excite.
In Ara Güler's photographs, what is striking is, first of all, the photographer's vision through the camera, the aesthetics and sensitivity of each frame. Simple city landscapes and people's eyes seem to come to life in Guler's photographs. Not without reason, despite the fact that Ara Guler managed to capture in his photographs many famous people, he was best known for melancholic black and white pictures daily life in Istanbul.
He believes that a photograph should keep a memory of a person, his life and events connected with him. The powerful photographic vision has even turned the name Güler in Turkey into a synonym for a particular photographic style that young, aspiring photographers try to emulate.
His view of photography in general is interesting: “Photography is not art. This is more than art. Photographers are chroniclers who record the visual history of the present. Look at photographs XIX century. They give us a true impression of that time. Historians put emotions and fantasies into their books, but photographs tell the truth. Therefore photography is more than art. Photos are living history.
Arbus, Diana
(1923-1971) - American Jewish photographerorigin. Catalog of Arbus's work published by the magazine Aperture, is one of the most sold in the history of photography.
Perhaps it is difficult to find in the history of world photography a personality more controversial, tragic, so different from anyone else. She is idolized and cursed, someone imitates her, someone tries by all means to avoid this. Some can look at her photos for hours, others try to quickly close the album. One thing is obvious - the work of Diane Arbus (Diane Arbus) leaves few people indifferent.
Arbus loved to photograph not beautiful and successful people, not picturesque nature or cute pets; her source of inspiration was "Freaks" - those whom society tries not to notice: prostitutes, transvestites, people with mental or physical disabilities. DianaI also photographed ordinary people, but emphasized a certain anxiety and alienation in them.
Diana Arbus diligently peered into reality, tried to penetrate into the very essence of even the most ordinary things. Banal weekdays and folk holidays with the help of her camera became like a Sabbath. Photographing even the most ordinary people, Arbus snatched out their "feature", which was often not even attractive at all.
Diane Arbus was one of the most daring who tried (and successfully) to impose the author's vision and her own style in photography on customers. The success was largely due to the fact that many of the things that she captured became available to the rest of the audience solely due to her status as a press reporter. Look at photographs from the 19th century. They give us a true impression of that time. Historians put emotions and fantasies into their books, but photographs tell the truth. Therefore photography is more than art. Photos are living history.
I think today's generation has one problem. It is so fascinated by objectivity that it forgets about photography itself. Forgets to create images like Cartier-Bresson or Salgado, two of the greatest 35mm photographers who have ever lived. To create a photo, they can use any theme, whatever it may be. They really create a photograph that you get pleasure from, great pleasure. And now, every time it's the same thing: two people in bed, someone with a needle in their hand or something like that, Lifestyles or nightclubs. You look at these and in a week you begin to forget, in two weeks you cannot remember a single one. But then photography can be considered interesting when it sinks into our consciousness.
From the very beginning, he was unpleasantly surprised by the fact that all the photographs look the same, without revealing anything about the person portrayed: "You look at the photograph of President Taft in the White House and see that it could have been taken in any office anywhere in the world." The portrait, at best, revealed the appearance of the model, silent about his profession, addictions, habits, and the like. This situation did not suit the young photographer in any way, and already in the early 1940s he began to experiment with what would later be called “environmental portraiture”.
« Bourdain's work makes more sense today than it did 20 years ago."
When you just start to get acquainted with the work of Guy Bourdin (Guy Bourdin), his works are confusing and even shocking, but you want to consider them in detail, to understand the master's intention. And when the shocking images become familiar to the eye, they begin to truly fascinate. Of course, Bourdin's pictures are masterpieces that cannot leave the viewer indifferent.
Bourdain sometimes struck with his authoritarianism. He could choose one from a large number of photographs, and simply destroy the rest. He often said that good photographer is a good carpenter. Color and lighting, first of all. His models could be illuminated by a summer thunderstorm or some kind of luminous glow. He achieved such results in his own way: for example, Bourdain refused studio umbrellas, could make an assistant dance around the composition he created with fire, which was usually installed on
tripods.
His works are controversial, and therefore interesting, sometimes attractively scandalous, which causes close attention from connoisseurs of photography, professionals and laymen. Some call them banal and vulgar, others brilliant.
his favorite style of work is nude. Rankin conveys an erotic message through the camera lens. Sometimes his pictures are embarrassing, sometimes shocking. What is one of his photo sessions called "Girls on top". In it, he photographs naked girls from a very low angle. " Focal length was so short that you could shoot very, very close. It's a very sexy thing - a kind of intimate photographic intercourse with someone." - says the author.
Despite this, Rankin states: “In my work, I am categorically against voyeurism and pornography. I hate porn aesthetics: girls take cold stereotypical poses that carry something rough and cold. Nudity itself does not interest me at all. I prefer to work in a classical manner, but with humor and always striving for something unexpected, so as not to give the impression that you are seeing these breasts for the thousandth time.
Demarchelier, Patrick
french photographer . WITH 1975 lives in New York.
Frenchman Patrick Demarchelier is one of the most successful commercial photographers of our time. It works for such popular fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar, Newsweek, ELLE, Vogue, and collaborates with famous brands- Calvin Klein, Armani, Chanel, Versace, L'Oreal and many others.
It is believed that it was Patrick Demarchelier who contributed to the fact that fashion photography lost some of its eccentricity, but acquired the necessary lightness and naturalness.
The success in photography of Patrick Demarchelier is associated with a kind of "aesthetics of a random frame." As he explains himself: “I try to create an atmosphere in which a person feels at ease ... I don’t like the feeling that there is a camera between me and the person being portrayed, so I do my best to make them forget about it.” According to his method, the model should not notice the camera, and only in this case, really great pictures will turn out.
In his work with nudes, Patrick Demarchelier always prefers that the person's face or body express some emotion, some element of chance. Moreover, he believes that certain imperfections of the body are much more interesting for the photographer. With the dynamic and graceful images of Patrick Demarchelier in fashion photography, the time is coming to an end when only static portraits were placed on the covers of glossy magazines.
Demarchelier had no formal education in the fine arts - in fact, he had no education at all. “Basically I learned photography… just taking pictures, taking lots of pictures. I have made many mistakes, but they are the ones that teach the best. The job of a photographer is like a sport: you have to train every day.”
The most important thing is to be extremely attentive to the person, serious and consistent in your intentions, then the picture will be the most sincere. I love people watching. It seems to me that a person's face can sometimes tell a lot. Each of my photographs is not just an episode from life, it is its quintessence, its whole history
Steve McCurry has many great photographs and is rightfully considered one of the best photojournalists of our time. Everything is in order with him and with artistic taste, some of his works can serve (and serve) as an adornment for the most demanding art museum. However, many photography lovers know him as the author of a single photograph.
This is not unusual: a photographer is often remembered for one photograph, as an actor for one role, a writer for one book, an artist for one painting. Few people know that something other than the Black Square came out of Malevich's brush, and Conan Doyle invented not only Sherlock Holmes. There are also more curious cases: an ardent opponent death penalty Dr. Guillotin is remembered as the man who gave his name to the decapitation machine. And who cares now that he proposed it as an alternative to more cruel methods of execution (burning at the stake, hanging, quartering).
“I think that many people like the photo of an Afghan girl due to the combination of several components,” its creator shared his understanding of the reason for the popularity of the photo, “Firstly, she is very beautiful. Secondly, her gaze is mesmerizing, it simultaneously feels excitement and determination, steadfastness, dignity shines through in all her appearance. She is poor, but in this poverty there is genuine nobility. Dress her in Western fashion and she will look like most members of our society."
V @ Photographer's work is like a sport: you have to exercise every day"
In his work, Demarchelier prefers the so-called "aesthetics of the random shot". “I try to create an atmosphere in which a person feels at ease,” the master explained the main secret of his success. “I don’t like the feeling that there is a camera between me and the person being portrayed, so I do my best to make them forget about it.” This method allowed him to make many magnificent portraits, in particular the famous portrait of Princess Diana in 1992: “We were talking, laughing, then “Snap”, and the camera seemed to be gone. She shouldn't be."
The photographer tries to apply the same principles not only in portrait photography, but also when working with nudity: “I don’t like it when a model plays “nude”, or tries to be “naked”. I recently photographed a naked girl, but I focused exclusively on the face. She had a beautiful body, but it did not seem interesting to me - she "posed" too much. All her charms were too obvious. ... I like it when both the face and the body express some kind of emotion, when I see some elements of chance. A body that has certain flaws is much more interesting.”
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt
“I want the images to be emotional. There is little else that interests me in photography.”
Elliott Erwitt is a legend of world photography, famous as the most talented author of black and white photographs. His works: lively, emotional, with a sense of humor and deep meaning, conquered the public of many countries. The uniqueness of the photographer's technique lies in the ability to see the irony in the world around him. He did not like staged shots, did not use retouching and worked only with film cameras. Everything that Ervit has ever filmed is genuine reality, through the eyes of an optimist.
Rwitt tried to keep photography as his passion, believing that commercial shots lose their naturalness, as they contain the requirement of the customer.Elliott's works reflect the lifestyle of the 50s and 60s in America and Europe. There is a lot of irony in them about what is happening with people, and not only with ordinary, but also with significant people.
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