For each individual person, photography has a special meaning. Photography is special memories that evoke the past. A certain art that you definitely need to learn in order to create truly amazing masterpieces. A wonderful way to capture the present, so that, after a while, you can remember with pleasure how and what you lived.
Not a single holiday, not a single trip, not a single significant event in life is complete 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 the person gets a lot pleasant emotions and memories.
As you all know, even before cameras were created, pictures were drawn to capture the present. These could be portraits, landscapes, still lifes and the like. And of course it took great amount time, effort and money. For example, in order to convey into the future what a particular commander looked like, it was necessary to first prepare the canvas, dilute the paint, and be extremely perseverant, both for the artist and for the person from whom the portrait was actually copied.
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 and small in size, which makes our life much easier. Need to take a photo of the beautiful view from the window? Please! Do you urgently need to photograph a document? Nothing complicated. We can also take pictures of ourselves without any problems if we suddenly want - and even this has now become 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 human history. But this device was quite bulky and took up a lot of space, so they began to improve the camera, which was then called photo apparatus engineering. Over time, the size of such devices gradually decreased, technology created more and more high quality photos. 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 highest quality cameras “live” on their own; they are a good tool for creating stunning photographs.
Photography as an art appeared in the 1920-1930s - communities of artists began to emerge who set out to turn just photography into an art form.
And now, the creativity of many people includes photography, because it combines ease and simplicity of creation, as well as beauty and splendor. It is with the help of photographs that you can remotely visit different parts of the Earth, contemplate the magnificence of Niagara Falls, or see the Earth from space. You just need to go online and type into a search engine what interests you. The Internet will give you a huge amount various photographs, not inferior to each other in beauty, quality and grace.
As a creative activity, photography is quite easy and interesting, because it is not difficult for a person to correctly set up the camera, focus clearly 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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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 curtain salon, or serve as a carrier of identification of a fact or person - a photo report or a passport photo.
Photography is a language that speaks at the emotional level. 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 - to laugh loudly and sincerely, from the heart... The language of photography can tell the story of not only one specific person, but also an entire family, an entire kind, and sometimes even all of humanity. Photography shows us the world as it was at the second the photograph was taken. And this captured world remains with us forever.
1. Photographs tell us what is most important to us.
If you ask someone what kind of things they would save in a critical situation, they will most likely answer you: a photo album or a computer hard drive on which family photographs are digitally recorded. In case of panic, a person always grabs what is most dear to him. And most often it’s not money, not Jewelry, but photographs of loved ones, pictures that contain a piece of the past, a piece of already gone days of life.
By taking photographs, we document our life. We capture the most important, most significant moments. Weddings and anniversaries, the birth of children, housewarmings, holidays in distant cities and countries... All this matters to us great value. These photographs 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 polka dot dress - and now she is already in her old age: wrinkles, kind eyes...
Hundreds, thousands of frames add up bit by bit into 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, with teachers and the school director standing or sitting in the center... We then posed motionless, sometimes feeling constrained. At that second, we didn’t even think about the fact that, looking into the camera lens, we were looking into eternity! But these school photographs will outlive us... After many years, and maybe many decades, somewhere in an attic or in an old closet among a pile of yellowed papers, our children or grandchildren will find these photographs and recognize their ancestors in 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 reflected a stopped moment past life. It’s not for nothing that they say: “stop, just a moment, you’re wonderful!”
Family photos are pieces of our lives...
3. Photos help us communicate
There are now 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 whimsical 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 an excellent opportunity for our own self-expression. Self-expression through visual arts. Many of us, having picked up a camera, begin to notice how sweet and pure the faces of children are, how wise the eyes of old people are, how beautiful the expanses of nature around us are, how the colors of golden autumn impress our consciousness... We 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 entire 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 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 left it! It’s just that life in this landscape is different: quiet and calm, slowly flowing... And if you photograph 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 a person’s mood will immediately improve noticeably!
Photography allows us to express what sometimes cannot be expressed simply 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 a person's attention. It appeals directly to his emotions. Look, for example, at war photographs, or at photographs taken during moments of tragedy and natural disasters. One such image, just the eyes of a person crying for help, can say so much... It works on a more subtle level, at the level of our subconscious. Grief, misfortune, and tragedy have the power to wash away everything colorful and beautiful from our lives. There is and cannot be a way to restore color, light and joy in such photographs. Such photographs change our consciousness. There is no need to look for color in this flashy black and white. But this severity and truth of life, nevertheless, can lead us to color. Towards the light in life.
In moments of grief, a photographic image can revive our hope for a wonderful future. For a 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 is children's and family photography needed? What does it mean for the child and parents? What place does it take among other photography genres? Leading photographers of the country, members of the Russian Photo club, share their thoughts.
“Our great-grandchildren need a family photo. Very necessary. Just as we value those crumbs inherited from our great-grandfather before the war. We need it as a biography. It is needed like a time machine, transporting you to bygone times. It is necessary as a connection between times - past, present and future.”
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“A family photograph 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 strengthen the family. Looking at photographs of our grandparents, faded with time, we are surprised to find common features with them, guess from the look of our great-grandfather’s difficult character, and from the style of our dress we notice that our great-grandmother was a fashionista. Family photography is our pedigree, which can be studied not only by the family tree.”
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“Family photography is necessary because it gives a sense of the integrity of your 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. This knowledge of one's own roots is very important for a child who begins to grow up, for the formation of his character, personality and values.
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“First of all, children’s photography is not needed For what And For what, A for whom! It is needed for the children themselves, and this is obvious. Do any of you remember yourself at 3 years old, at 8 years old, at 12? Just yourself? For example, I don't. I remember how I felt about myself at a certain age, but how I looked was very vague... I remember myself and my parents only from the pictures they took, and what a pity I am that there are very few of these pictures! But then all photography was on a completely different level. Now everything has changed, it has become more accessible than ever. And you shouldn’t 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, place, or event. And then I, the adult, will not regret that there is very little photographic memory of childhood left. Take photos of your children! They need it!
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“I think that this is the only opportunity, besides paintings, to stop time... Happy life as a child in a family, cheerful 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 former love-filled days, people will be able to think and again try to change their feelings, revive their 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 still have a huge number of pictures! I was surprised to find a small, plump girl in their arms. It turned out it was my mother! But if it weren’t for these photographs, I would not be able to touch the past of my family, I would not be able to convey to my children the love story of my grandparents, mother and father. Family photography is a connection between generations.”
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“Our life is fleeting, and what today seems eternal and unshakable to us, tomorrow becomes only a memory. In the family archive we keep a treasure trove of the best memories and happiest moments in life: the birth of a child, discharge from the hospital, the baby’s first photo session, the whole family’s first photo shoot... 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 sweet and dear images from our childhood that fade over the years and are erased from our memory. Photography documents these images, which means it helps us maintain a connection with our past, with our roots, with the house where we grew up, with previous generations. Pictures from the family album will take our children back to a time when they were unconditionally happy and give them strength to move on. For parents, family photography will become a saga about the love and beauty of happy loved ones, about children growing up, about bright moments spent together. Family photos will warm the hearts of grown-up children when they begin their independent lives. And it is very important to print photographs, preferably in the format of photo albums, which will then form a real family archive. The pages of these albums will remember the warmth of the hands that turned them over and will be generously shared.”
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Family photography can be found in everyday life, recording ordinary, but very personal events that make up the history of a family. These are not pictures of what we looked like or 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 loved ones are in 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 wouldn’t like to talk about sad things, but this is important: unfortunately, we are not all eternal. And here family photography is of great importance. If you like, this is the very trace that we leave behind. We remember and honor our departed loved ones, tell our 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 photograph is a piece of family wealth. Family albums filled with life, traditions, and unique moments are a unique legacy for future generations.”
Natalia Andersen:
“Happy is he who is happy in the family! And so that this happiness can be seen, touched and experienced again, in my opinion, family photography was invented. These are such rays of warmth and light, a connection between generations on paper. You flip through a family album, look at the touching faces of children, 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 her both in life and in photographs.”
Olga Lebedeva :
“In fact, a family photo is not necessary... It is necessary! This is a kind of spiral with many turns, each of which is a generation. One turn falls out - and there is no spiral... This is memory, this is an opportunity to go back. This is the key to a conscious future. We must know who our forefathers were, what they lived, how they lived! What they wore, how they laughed, how they played, cried, were sad... This is our life. Family photography continues in the family album. Every single photo is a whole world, a whole life! It is necessary to preserve and increase this knowledge. We need to develop the value and significance of family photography in our environment. Why is it 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 an event or family history, but also reflects emotions and inner world people and even their attitude towards their past. If you make such an album with love, interesting and high quality both in content and design, it will truly become a real family treasure 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 erases the visuals, and only flashes of light in the soul from the brightest moments of life remain. Photography makes it possible to relive the happy and unique moments of your life. It’s all said in the famous song: “To make everything happen again, look in the family album.” To remember what we were like, keep a family album.” For me in my old age, a family album will have the greatest value, of material assets, Certainly. A family album is like a time machine, and where it takes you back depends on the photographs that make up your family album.”
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“Since childhood, I remember photographs of my grandparents, 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! The awareness of the significance and value of photography appeared in me even then and grows every year. My family history is also “written” in a similar book, and the visual chronicle is permanent. I take pictures 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!
Having become a wife and mother, I realized what peace there 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; this is tenderness and understanding; it is looking in one direction. Taking 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 forever capture this connection, 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 happy... 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 memory. Our life is fleeting, days fly by after days, and sometimes just looking at old photographs, we remember different moments and our emotions... Happy, magical, and 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 nearby, collecting bit by bit your emotions and smiles, everyday life and holidays. Your meetings, walks, children's first steps, their pranks and games. And I wish everyone to become this person professional photographer so that your pictures are truly high-quality and harmonious.”
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“Every moment of life is unique and, alas, fleeting. And sometimes, to remember the joyful moments spent with your family and friends, you just need to look at the family album. It is he who keeps your baby’s first steps, touching love for your soulmate, and the secret sacraments of a child’s wedding or baptism. As a children's and family photographer, I see my goal as the most accurate reflection of such fleeting moments. My work is based on absolute naturalness. The more vivid the photo and the 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 on 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’s like the orders or medals of your grandparents; like diplomas or school certificates of parents; like my great-grandmother’s antique wedding dress; like the tune that played on the first school evening; like a strand of hair or a child's first tooth that falls out. All these particles make up the character and values of your family and your kind.”
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“In our time of publicly accessible digital technology and millions of digital files, family photography is needed more than ever. One. Big. Printed on paper or canvas, framed in a beautiful frame and hanging on the wall in a prominent place. And it should change along with the changes taking place in the family. It’s even better if it’s a “laughing” photograph of all family members, which will not leave anyone indifferent. Such a photo really charges everyone around with positivity. Look around, do you have family photos at home?”
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“Why do we need family photography? To hide the first smile, the first step, warm hugs and the smell of summer in the family album. And then open it and plunge into the memories, relive and feel them again and again.”
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“Family photography is a documentary confirmation of family history. Why is it needed? First of all, it’s interesting: what came before you? What were you like 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago? What were your father, grandfather, great-grandfather like? Anyone who has ever looked at 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 photographs are pieces of a puzzle, parts of the picture of our world, our family and, as a result, ourselves.”
Photography is first and foremost an art, albeit a relatively young one! As in any art, every time has its heroes! Like Raphael in painting, Pushkin in literature, Bach in music. Besides all this, photography has a very important historical value. She carries history, faces, events through time. emotions. A photograph carries a huge amount of information. In this article we will get acquainted with photographers from different times, look at the features of their work, and they, in turn, will share their invaluable experience with us.
In the modern world, everyone has a camera and more than one important event in our lives is complete without photography. With the advent digital cameras and editing programs, the importance (price) of the ability to capture the moment, to see further than the average person has faded into the background.
Ivan Fedorovich Barshchevsky
(1851-1948)- Patriarch of Russia architectural photography , who has captured thousands of national cultural heritage sites across the country on film.
“This very skillful and diligent photographer decided to photograph everything remarkable about ancient Russian architecture, everything that is important and interesting in it for this science, but has not yet been published anywhere” (1880s).
"AND. F. Barshchevsky developed a method for photographing an architectural monument, which photographers still use today. The master takes pictures of the building from various most advantageous points, then photographs are taken of parts of the facade, 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 ) - famous Ural photographer , entrepreneur and photo chronicler Ural.
He photographed most of the Ural factories and villages, mines and mines, cities, mountains, rivers; showed the working and living conditions of miners late XIX- beginning of the 20th century. He was one of the first to publish postcards with views of Yekaterinburg. He left behind a large collection of photographs and postcards with views of the Urals.
He was a pioneer of filming in the Urals.
Denyer, Andrey Ivanovich
(1820- 1892) - photographer from St. Petersburg. One of the leading portrait painters of the 19th century. Known for his portraits of artists.
Denyer’s workshop was noticeably different from others “in its artistic direction,” as S. L. Levitsky later wrote in his memoirs. Denyer approached his work creatively, like an artist; he applied the knowledge he acquired at the Academy to portrait photography.
The method discovered by Denyer was used mainly when printing large-sized photographs; it softened that very protocol sharpness in portraits, which caused the most attacks on light painting.
In his daily work, Denyer paid a lot of attention to retouching prints (positives). The then acceptable shutter speed when shooting was not enough to work out the image details in the photographs. If the shutter speed was too long, some details in the shadows were worked out, but the face came out without halftones. With a short shutter speed, the highlights were well developed, but details and halftones in the shadows disappeared. Craft photographers did poor retouching.
Cameron, Julia Margaret
(11 June 1816, 26 January1879) - English photographer of the Victorian era.
She always sought to find the soul in those she photographed. In her hands, the camera turned out to be an ideal tool for recording the characteristic expressions on her faces. intellectual heroes. Her studio was her gallery of saints: she created icons for veneration. Photos ordinary people were relatively uninteresting, just registration cards with nothing on them but vague portraits of people she clearly didn't idolize.
Felix Beato
(1832 - January 29, 1909) - traveler and one of the first British photographers who started filming East Asia , as well as one of the first war photographers. Known for his panoramas, genre works, portraits, views and landscapes of the Mediterranean and Asia. His work illuminatesCrimean 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 reports, Europeans had 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 with whom he either worked or who saw his work, the following can be listed: James Robirtwon, Kusakaba Kibney, Hugo Kraft, Raimund Von Stilfried, and others. Felix Beato at the same time showed that, despite the completely imperfect equipment, he achieved very high-quality image in the photographs, conveying the mood, style, as well as the author’s worldview, paid attention proper lighting, location of objects and people. Felix Beato often photographed local populations in such a way as to depict architectural or topographical features, which sometimes resulted in people (or other moving objects) appearing blurred or translucent. Such blurriness is generally characteristic of photographs of the 19th century. Felix Beato worked primarily with albumen silver prints made from glass negatives made using the macrocollodine process. Beato was also one of the first to master and apply the technique of color printing and toning. Felix Beato was again one of the first to shoot panoramas, where he also achieved amazing quality for that time; panoramas were obtained practically without seams or joints.
Currently, his photographs are in many private collections, as they were reprinted both by the author himself and by new owners for subsequent sales.
photographer and graphic designer
Perhaps the most famous photographic project of Adam Magyar to this day is the project called “Squares”. This is a series of panoramic photographs telling about the daily life of a large metropolis. To create these unique photographic images, Magyar traveled to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Calcutta, New York and Tokyo, everywhere encountering the almost Brownian movement of thousands of people on city streets. A pedestrian in a crowd of thousands is comparable to a small insect, which after a minute disappears from your field of vision and is therefore completely impossible to see. Each panoramic photograph 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 you to clearly see each pedestrian in the city square individually.
« Simplify, simplify, simplify “Andre Kertész formulated this laconic instruction for beginning photographers.
I don't adjust or calculate, I watch a scene and know that it is perfection, even if I have to step back to get the right light. The moment dominates my work. I shoot the way I feel. Everyone can look, but not everyone can see.
His style, which became characteristic of that time, was subsequently adopted by many reporters. He developed his own technique for preliminary composition construction. It consisted in pre-selecting a place in the frame where the desired object would appear, and at the moment when it appeared there, the photographer pressed the shutter.
a good photograph always has something to say
Ara Güler is the most famous representative of creative photography in Turkey
He calls himself a photojournalist, and not a photographer or photo artist, because Ara Güler does not believe that photography has any artistic significance. This does not stop him from creating highly artistic photographs that are exhibited all over 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 thing is the “event”, the “moment”. This “event” should not be missed. As a photographer who takes pictures of people, I want to capture their joy, their sorrow, their attitude towards life, their fears, everything that is inherent in a person. What's important to me is that human dramas will live on for centuries into the future. After all, photography is a way of preserving information, and it should preserve something, some drama, if it is important. And such a photograph can excite.”
What is striking about Ara Guler’s photographs is, first of all, the vision of the photographer himself 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 many famous people, he is best known for his melancholic black-and-white photographs of everyday life in Istanbul.
He believes that photography should preserve memories of a person, his life and events related to him. His powerful photographic vision has even made Güler's name in Turkey synonymous with a distinct photographic style that young, aspiring photographers strive to emulate.
His view on photography in general is interesting: “Photography is not art. This is more than art. Photographers are chroniclers, recording the visual history of modern times. Look at photographs from the 19th century. They give us a true impression of that time. Historians put emotion and fantasy into their books, but photographs tell the truth. Therefore, photography is more than art. Photographs are living history."
Arbus, Diana
(1923-1971) - American Jewish photographerorigin. Catalog of Arbus's works issued by the magazine Aperture, is one of the best-selling photographs in history.
It is perhaps difficult to find in the history of world photography a personality more controversial, tragic, and so unlike anyone else. She is idolized and cursed, some imitate her, others try with all their might to avoid it. Some can spend hours looking at her photographs, others try to quickly close the album. One thing is obvious - the work of 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. DianaShe also photographed ordinary people, but emphasized a certain anxiety and alienation in them.
Diane Arbus carefully peered into reality, tried to penetrate into the very essence of even the most ordinary things. With the help of her camera, banal everyday life and folk holidays became like a Sabbath. Taking pictures of even the simplest people, Arbus snatched out their “peculiarity”, which was often not even attractive at all.
Diane Arbus was one of the bravest who tried (and successfully) to impose on customers the author’s vision and her own style in photography. The success was largely due to the fact that many of the things she captured became accessible to the rest of the viewer 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 emotion and fantasy into their books, but photographs tell the truth. Therefore, photography is more than art. Photographs are living history."
I think today's generation has one problem. It is so carried away by objectivity that it forgets about photography itself. Forgets to create images like Cartier-Bresson or Salgado, two of the greatest 35mm photographers who ever lived. They can use any theme to create a photograph, no matter what it is. They truly create photography that you enjoy, a lot of pleasure from. Now, every time it's the same thing: two people in bed, someone with a needle in their arm or something like that, Lifestyles or nightclubs. You look at these and after a week you begin to forget, after two weeks you can’t remember a single one. But a photograph can then be considered interesting when it sinks into our consciousness.
From the very beginning, he was unpleasantly surprised by the fact that all the photographs looked the same, without revealing anything about the identity of the subject: “You look at a photograph of President Taft in the White House and see that it could have been taken in any office anywhere in the world.” At best, the portrait revealed the model’s appearance, keeping silent about his profession, passions, habits, and the like. This situation did not suit the young photographer in any way, and already in the early 1940s he began experimenting with what would later be called “environmental portraiture”.
« Bourdain's work makes more sense today than it did 20 years ago."
When you first begin to get acquainted with the work of Guy Bourdin, his works are confusing and even shocking, but you want to look at them in detail, to understand the master’s intention. And when the shocking nature of the photographs becomes familiar to the eye, they begin to truly fascinate. Of course, Bourdain’s photographs are masterpieces that cannot leave the viewer indifferent.
Bourdain was sometimes striking in his authoritarianism. He could choose one from a large number of photographs and simply destroy the rest. He often said that good photographer- This is a good carpenter. Color and lighting, above all. His models could be illuminated by a summer thunderstorm or some kind of luminescent glow. He achieved such results in his own way: for example, Bourdain refused studio umbrellas and could force an assistant to 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 attracts close attention from photography connoisseurs, professionals and ordinary people. Some call them banal and vulgar, others call them brilliant.
His favorite style of work is nude. Rankin conveys an erotic message through the camera lens. Sometimes his photographs are confusing, sometimes shocking. Just look at his photo shoot 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 - sort of like 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 adopt cold, stereotypical poses that convey something gross and cold. Nudity itself doesn't interest me at all. I prefer to work in a classic manner, but with humor and always striving for something unexpected, so that you don’t get 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.
Patrick Demarchelier's success in photography is associated with a peculiar “aesthetics of a random shot.” As he explains: “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 subjects, so I do everything possible to make them forget about it.” According to his method, the model should not notice the camera, and only in this case will truly great pictures be obtained.
When working 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 Patrick Demarchelier's dynamic and graceful photographs in fashion photography, the time when only static portraits were placed on the covers of glossy magazines is ending.
Demarchelier had no formal training in the fine arts—indeed, he had no education at all. “I basically learned photography... just by taking pictures, taking a lot of pictures. I made a lot of mistakes, but they are the ones that teach you best. The work of a photographer is akin to sports: 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 photo will be the most sincere. I really like watching people. 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 story
Steve McCurry has many wonderful photographs and is rightfully considered one of the best photojournalists of our time. Everything is in order with his artistic taste; some of his works can serve (and serve) as decoration for the most discerning art museum. However, many photography enthusiasts know him as the author of one single photograph.
There is nothing unusual in this: a photographer is often remembered by one photograph, like an actor by one role, a writer by one book, an artist by one painting. Few people know that Malevich’s brush produced anything other than “Black Square,” and Conan Doyle came up with more than just Sherlock Holmes. There are 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 photograph of the Afghan girl due to the combination of several components,” its creator shared his understanding of the reason for the popularity of the photograph, “Firstly, she is very beautiful. Secondly, her gaze is captivating, it simultaneously feels excitement and determination, steadfastness, and dignity shines through her entire appearance. She is poor, but in this poverty there is a feeling of genuine nobility. Dress her in Western fashion and she will look like most members of our society."
V @ The work of a photographer is akin to sports: you have to train every day"
In his work, Demarchelier prefers the so-called “aesthetics of a random frame.” “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 of having a camera between me and my subjects, so I do everything I can to make them forget about it.” This method allowed him to take many magnificent portraits, in particular the famous portrait of Princess Diana in 1992: “We were talking, laughing, then “Click”, and it was as if the camera was not there. It shouldn’t exist.”
The photographer tries to apply the same principles not only in portrait photography, but also when working with nudes: “I don’t like it when a model plays “nude” or tries to be “nude.” I recently photographed a nude girl, but I focused solely on the face. She had a wonderful body, but it didn’t seem interesting to me - she was too “posed”. All her charms were too obvious. ... I like it when both the face and body express some emotions, 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 - a legend of world photography, became famous as the most talented author black and white photographs. His works: lively, emotional, with a sense of humor and deep meaning, have captivated audiences in many countries. The uniqueness of the photographer’s technique lies in the ability to see 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 hobby, believing that commercial photographs lose their naturalness, since they contain the customer’s requirements.Elliott's works reflect the way of life of the 50s and 60s in America and Europe. They contain a lot of irony about what is happening to people, and not only to ordinary people, but also to significant people.
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