Ten of the most famous photographs in the world. The most famous photographs in history
One press of the camera shutter - and an unknown paparazzi photographer becomes rich or famous (or better yet, both), and his name is mentioned next to the names of the greatest people. You can have different attitudes towards the difficult craft of a photojournalist, but largely thanks to it we get the opportunity to see the world at least a little further than the tip of our own nose. I suggest you familiarize yourself with some photographs that have already gone down in history. Unfortunately, most of them show suffering and death (((.
The photo was taken on September 29, 1932 on the 69th floor in recent months construction of Rockefeller Center
The photograph shows a victim of a terrible tragedy - the eruption of the Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz on November 13, 1985 (the fourth largest number of victims among known volcanic eruptions). A muddy slurry of dirt and earth swallowed up every living thing in its path. More than 23 thousand people died then.
A girl, Omaira Sanchez, was captured on camera a few hours before her death. She was unable to get out of the mud mess because her legs were pinned by a huge concrete slab. The rescuers did everything in their power. The girl behaved courageously, encouraging those around her. In a terrible trap, hoping for salvation, she spent three long days. On the fourth, she began hallucinating and died from contracted viruses.
"Unknown Rebel" in Tiananmen Square. This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widner, shows a protester holding back a column of tanks for half an hour.
Earthrise photographed for the first time from lunar orbit during the Apollo 8 mission.
Man Ray loved to shoot nudes. But he also loved to experiment with his photographs. One day he did something for which, many years later, they would come up with a program called “Photoshop” and call it “photo processing.” Ray tried to draw a parallel for the viewer between the beautiful forms of a half-naked girl and the smooth curves of the violin. Take a closer look at the photo, it looks like it!!!
On December 30, 2006 he was executed in Iraq ex-president of this country Saddam Hussein. The Supreme Court sentenced him to death for mass kill Shiites in the city of Dujail in 1982. The execution took place shortly before morning prayer, and was captured on video, which was shown on all national television channels.
Government representatives present at the execution said that Saddam Hussein behaved with dignity and did not ask for mercy. He stated that he was "glad to accept death from his enemies and become a martyr" rather than vegetate in prison for the rest of his days.
All the pain is in just one look... (Henry Cartier Bresson). The photo was taken in 1948-1949, when the author traveled around China. The photo shows a hungry boy standing for long hours in an endless line for rice.
The event depicted in this photograph cannot be called a global disaster (out of 97 people on board, 35 died), but it marked the end of the era of airships. The Hindenburg airship was a source of pride air fleet Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler experienced his loss very sensitively.
Burial of an unknown child. On December 3, 1984, the Indian city of Bhopal suffered from the largest man-made disaster in the history of mankind. A giant toxic cloud released into the atmosphere by an American pesticide plant covered the sleeping city, killing three thousand people that same night. Another 15 thousand people died during next month. Total The victims are estimated at 150 thousand people (not counting children born after the disaster).
Niagara Falls is frozen. Photo from 1911.
On June 8, 1972, photographer Nick Yut took a photograph of Vietnamese girl Kim Phuc running from a napalm explosion. The picture thundered throughout the world, but Kim herself saw it for the first time only 14 months later, when she was being treated for terrible burns in Saigon. Kim still remembers the sound of falling bombs and explosions, remembers how she ran, remembers the soldier who poured water on her, mistakenly believing that this would ease her suffering. But water makes napalm burns even worse.
The photographer took the girl to the hospital. He doubted whether to publish the photo, but in the end decided that the world should see it. Nick Utah's photograph was later named best photo 20th century.
In 1982, while Kim Phuc was in medical school, the Vietnamese government found her and began using her for propaganda purposes. Kim was able to escape to Cuba, where she continued her studies and met her future husband. Kim Phuc currently lives in Canada.
In October 1968, this photograph became known throughout the world. Two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, won gold and bronze medals for the United States in the 200-meter dash at the Mexico City Olympics. During the playing of the US anthem, they stood with their heads bowed and their hands raised, thus protesting the plight of the black population in the US.
A public protest against discrimination against blacks caused a scandal in the circles of official America; both athletes were quickly expelled from the Olympic team.
One of the best actresses in the history of cinema, Marilyn Monroe, during a break during filming.
Alfred Eisenstadt, a photographer for Life magazine, walked through the square, where there were many soldiers and sailors returning from the war. He noticed a sailor who kissed all the women indiscriminately. When a stunned sailor literally tied up a young nurse, the photographer could not stand it and took a photo that is now known throughout the world as “Unconditional Surrender.”
2006 FIFA World Cup final. In the last minutes of the game, the hope of the French team, Zinedine Zidane, punches Italian Marco Materazzi in the chest. It is not known for certain what Marco Materazzi said to Zidane (who clearly did not live up to the expectations of the French fans), but this gave Zidane a reason to take his anger out on his opponent for a not very successful match. Zinedine Zidane's magnificent career ended with him being sent off.
Atomic mushroom over Nagasaki.
Patterson-Gimlin's 1968 documentary film Bigfoot, is still the only clear photographic evidence of the existence of relict hominids. At the same time, there are a considerable number of photographs very Low quality, not suitable for scientific analysis. The authenticity of the shooting is very doubtful, but nevertheless this photograph is known all over the world.
United Press International photographer Kyochi Sawada took this photo on February 24, 1966. Tan Bin, South Vietnam. The American military drags the body of a Viet Cong soldier with an armored personnel carrier.
Photographer Richard Drew calls this image "the most famous photograph that no one has seen." It depicts a man jumping from the burning World Trade Center tower to his death on September 11, 2001.
“On that day, which, more than any other day in history, was captured on cameras and film, the only taboo, by common consent, was the pictures of people jumping from windows” - words of Tom Junod, Esquire magazine
The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 was planned and carried out terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. Four groups of terrorists hijacked four planes, two of which rammed the World Trade Center towers, one crashed into the Pentagon, and one did not reach its target, crashing to the ground due to opposition from the plane's passengers, who learned about the planes that collided with the skyscrapers.
Winston Churchill in this photo is scowling not at the Nazis, but at the photographer Yosuf Karsh, who snatched the cigar straight from the great politician's mouth to give the politician an appearance more befitting the situation of Great Britain in early 1941. It turned out well. Before us is one of the most famous images of Winston Churchill.
Photograph by Pablo Picasso. Picasso himself suggested the plot to the photographer Duvanoushi.
Alberto Korda took this photo at a rally in 1960. A living legend caught in the frame Cuban Revolution- Che Guevara. Under Fidel Castro, Che Guevara became a minister, and a bright future lay ahead. Instead, he went to Bolivia to bring the light of revolution to the local peasants. They did not appreciate the works of Che Guevara and gave his location to the soldiers, who killed the revolutionary. Well, the photograph had a different fate; it is considered the most replicated in the history of photography.
Three American girls gossip in an alley in the Spanish city of Seville. For a long time, a postcard with this image enjoyed great success in the United States.
Photographer Robert Jackson captured the last moment of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. There were people everywhere wanting to tear apart the killer, Robert Jackson took another photo and while the flash was charging, a shot was fired. The photographer captured the moment the trigger was pulled.
Here is a photograph of the Titanic and the iceberg that killed it. IN maritime history tragedies happened with a large number of victims, but the Titanic set off on its first voyage, it was considered unsinkable and the most the best ship of its time. And yet, on April 15, 1912, he drowned and is still the embodiment of carelessness, irresponsibility and arrogance.
March 31, 2003. An Najaw, Iraq. A man tries to ease the suffering of his son in a prison for prisoners of war.
Photographer Stephen McCury took this photo in an Afghan refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in 1985. Soviet helicopters destroyed the village where the girl lived, her entire family died. Before getting to the refugee camp, the girl traveled alone for two weeks through the mountains. The photograph has become a National Geographic shrine and one of the most famous photographs of modern times.
Geniuses, it turns out, are people too! This became clear after the appearance of a photograph of the brilliant physicist Albert Einstein with his tongue hanging out. The correspondents tormented the genius so much with their requests to put on a cheerful smile on his face that he stuck his tongue out at them in despair. Thanks to this photo, we know Einstein not only as a brilliant physicist, but also as a great original.
November 22, 1963 went down in US history as one of its darkest days. President John F. Kennedy, along with his wife and Texas Governor John Connally, were traveling from the Dallas airport to the city center. More than 200 thousand city residents greeted the president. At some point the car slowed down, at that moment fatal shots were fired.
Photo of the Loch Ness Monster, 1934.
Photographer Robert Capa took this photograph at random, without looking through the viewfinder; it was the only photograph taken during the entire Republican attack. But the moment in the frame was the death of the Republican soldier Federico Borel Garcia. The photo caused a huge shock in society, and Robert Capa, at the age of 25, was called “The Greatest War Photographer in the World.”
The 1975 English Rugby Championship final was attended by the Queen and her entourage and a host of politicians. And then a naked man runs out onto the field and takes a “lap of honor” around the stadium. Her Majesty fainted, and the runner was imprisoned for 3 months.
During the capture of Berlin Soviet troops Joseph Goebbels - chief ideologist fascism - he poisoned his six children and his wife, and then took the poison himself. Goebbels's corpse, according to his dying order, was burned. This photo shows what is left of Goebbels. The photo was taken on May 2, 1945 in the building imperial chancellery Major Vasily Krupennikov.
Chechnya, May 1995. A boy looks out the back window of a bus carrying refugees fleeing fighting between Chechen separatists and Russian troops.
The photograph won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and greatly changed the way ordinary Americans viewed the Vietnam War. But the killed Viet Cong was not an innocent lamb. He was the captain of the North Vietnamese "revenge warriors" and on that day he and his subordinates personally killed many unarmed civilians.
This photo greatly spoiled the life of the South Vietnamese general Nguyen Ngoc Lon, in whose hands there was a pistol. They refused to treat him in an Australian military hospital; after moving to the United States, a campaign was launched against him for his immediate deportation; the restaurant he opened in Virginia was constantly attacked by vandals.
The inscription above the entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz reads: “Work makes you free.” Several million people read it while passing under the arch depicted in the photograph, and only a few thousand were lucky enough to survive. No place on Earth is so saturated with pain, suffering and despair as these several thousand hectares of Polish Silesia.
Banner of Victory over the Reichstag. Evgeny Khaldey, 1945. Despite the end of the fighting, hoisting the banner over the Reichstag was a risky business. Single Nazi fanatics repeatedly knocked down the banners with targeted fire.
US Marines plant the US flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. Highest point on Iwo Jima long time was the scene of bloody battles, the first time the American flag was hoisted on it was when the Japanese resistance in this part of the island was not completely broken. In the picture we can see the flag being reinstalled; the picture became one of the symbols of the US victory in the Pacific War.
Japanese resistance on the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa was desperate and the Americans suffered heavy losses. Analysts calculated that with such opposition, the capture of two main Japanese islands will cost the US Marines more than a million lives. These calculations became a death sentence for the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This photograph shows one of the last cases of lynching in the United States. 1930: A mob of 10,000 hangs two black men for raping and murdering a white woman. young man. A large number of joyful faces and it’s hard to blame them for it (unless black people were simply scapegoated, of course).
Photographs by war photojournalist Robert Capa are already on our list; this time the brave photographer took part in the landing of the Allied forces in Normandy, with only a camera as his weapon. On the morning of June 6, 1944, Capa, along with the leading elements of the Marines, set foot on the shores of Normandy, came under fire and was forced to dive underwater to save his life.
That day the photographer shot 4 films, but the laboratory assistant, developing the films, was in too much of a hurry to be in time for printing latest issue Life magazine and ruined them. Only 11 frames survived, and those were damaged. But it was this marriage that gave the surviving photographs their famous surrealism.
This kiss became the first photograph to be universally recognized in America. Photo taken in public place and the photographer was allegedly put on trial for voyeurism. They say that the man captured in the photo admitted that the photographer saw their kiss, but did not have time to take a photo and asked to repeat it.
The photo was taken a couple of years before the start of the Great Depression. The shelves are full of goods, people have money to buy.
In April 2004, CBS aired a story about the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. The story showed photographs that were published in the media mass media Worldwide. The effect was such that a couple of weeks later the American command expressed its readiness to publicly apologize for the inappropriate actions of the military personnel.
According to the prisoners' testimony, they were raped, forced to eat from toilets, ridden on horseback, beaten, and subjected to electric shocks.
The girl in the photo is called Teresa, she grew up in a German concentration camp. When she was asked to draw a house, she drew barbed wire... David Seymour, 1948.
On September 7, 1996, the car in which famous rapper Tupac Shakur was driving was shot up in Las Vegas. 4 bullets hit the artist, and after 6 days in critical condition he died. The murder was never solved.
Genetic engineering works wonders. In the photo you can see a mouse that has grown a human ear on its back.
Lina Medina is the youngest mother in medical history. She gave birth to a boy at the age of 5 years and 7 months by caesarean section (a similar case occurred in Russia). Initially, Lina’s parents decided that the girl had some kind of tumor and brought her to the hospital, where the true state of affairs became clear. By this time, Lina was 7 months pregnant. The born child weighed 2.7 kg. and grew up healthy. Only at the age of 10 did he find out that Lina was not for him elder sister, and mother. The child's father remains unknown.
Dolly the Sheep. First Living being artificially born by cloning from the cell of another adult animal. Lived for 6 years. Since then, experiments with cloning have been carried out repeatedly, but the animals born have always had much more health problems than animals born with the help of the good old traditional method reproduction of their own kind.
Golden Lebanese youth on an excursion in the bombed areas of the city. Spencer Platt August 15, 2006
Uganda. Hungry boy and missionary. 1980 Mike Wells
Death of a Nazi functionary and his family. Vienna, 1945. Author - Evgeny Khaldey. The fascist shot his wife, son and daughter, and then shot himself.
Famine in Sudan. Pulitzer Prize for 1994. The photo was taken in 1993 by Kevin Carter in a village in Sudan that had been wiped out by famine. Kevin Carter flew to Sudan to film scenes of famine. He photographed many people who died of hunger and a little away from the extinct village he discovered this girl. A vulture sat next to her and waited for her to die. Kevin took a photo and then cried for a long time.
Kevin Carter died the same year he won the Pulitzer Prize for this photo. His mental health was undermined.
Consequences freezing rain. Zurich, Switzerland
Photographer Malcolm Brown received phone call with a proposal to be at one of the crossroads of Saigon at a certain time. He came. Soon a car drove up there and several Buddhist monks got out. One of them sat in the lotus position, holding matches in his hands. The others began to pour gasoline on him. Then the sitting monk struck a match and turned into a flaming torch. The burning Buddhist did not make a sound.
It was a protest against the oppression of Buddhist monks in Vietnam.
The beginning of the Second World War. Poland, September 1, 1939. German troops crossing the Polish border.
Death photograph of Princess Diana. For 10 years, no one could dare to publish this photo. And with his appearance, the word “paparazzi” became a dirty word. The person who took this photo was accused of not trying to help. He was taking photographs.
Former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko is dying in London from polonium poisoning. Who did this? Who ordered it?
Discuss at home 4"Lunch on a Skyscraper"
1932
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Eleven men are having lunch, chatting and smoking. Everything would be fine, but they do this while sitting on a steel beam at the 69th floor above Manhattan. It was this scene that was captured by an unknown photographer in the photo “Lunch on a Skyscraper.” The shot was taken on September 29, 1932, as a staged shot, but with real workers, and a couple of days later it was published in the Sunday supplement of the New York Herald Tribune. The photo was taken during the Great Depression, when desperate people were willing to do any job and climb to gigantic height without any insurance.
Dorothea Lange "Migrant Mother"
1936
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The famous photo was taken in March 1936, at the height of the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange, who worked as a reporter, captured Florence Thompson. “I saw a mother who had lost all hope, and I was drawn to her like a magnet,” Lange recalled in 1960. “I took five pictures, getting closer to her each time, but didn’t even ask her name. She said that she was 32 years old and that she and her children lived on frozen vegetables from the fields and birds that they sometimes managed to shoot. That day she just sold the tires from her car to buy some food.” On March 10, 1936, the San Francisco News published Florence's photo in the article "Desolate, Hungry, Hopeless - Harvesters Live in Squalor." Snapshot of the strong unknown woman instantly spread throughout the country, and soon throughout the world. And the original photograph was auctioned in 2005 for $296 thousand.
Evgeny Khaldey “Victory Banner over the Reichstag”
1945
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“This is what I’ve been waiting for 1,400 days,” admitted Soviet photographer Evgeniy Khaldei. The war correspondent took his world-famous photograph on May 2, 1945. By that time, street fighting had already ended in Berlin, and the city was completely occupied by Soviet troops. Khaldei asked the first soldiers he encountered to help him take photographs. Soon he filmed two tapes with them. Yevgeny Khaldei brought the banner captured in the photo with him. It is curious that it was made from a red tablecloth, which the photographer “borrowed” during one of his visits to Moscow from the Photo Chronicle cafeteria.
Alfred Eisenstadt "Victory over Japan Day in Times Square"
1945
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In the summer of 1945, photographer Alfred Eisenstadt took a chance photo that was destined to become iconic. He captured a sailor who learned about the end of the war with Japan. “He ran all over the street, grabbing all the women he saw - it didn’t matter if they were elderly, portly or slender. I ran in front of him with my Leica, turning around and trying to take a photo, but I didn't like any of them. And then, suddenly - like a flash - I saw that he grabbed something white. I turned and pressed the button at the very moment when he kissed the nurse,” the photographer later said. A week later, Eisenstadt's photograph was published in Life magazine, where it took up an entire page. The shot became iconic, and for many Americans it became a symbol of peace.
Philippe Halsman "Dali anatomicus"
1948
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Philippe Halsman is called the founder of surrealism in photography. His famous “Jump” series has become a classic of photography. It included more than 200 portraits of famous people jumping in the frame. One of the heroes of the series was Salvador Dali. The Dali Anatomicus shot took Halsman six hours to complete. The easel and the painting were suspended by a fishing line from the ceiling, the photographer's wife held a chair in the foreground, and two assistants were throwing cats and throwing out a bucket of water. “When a person jumps, his attention is mainly directed to the act of jumping, the mask falls off and his true face appears,” Philippe Halsman explained the choice of the theme of the photographs.
Richard Avedon "Dovima and the Elephants"
1955
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In 1955, Richard Avedon filmed an advertisement for the new Christian Dior collection. He chose his favorite Dovima as a model and decided to capture her against the backdrop of elephants. Avedon wanted to convey the symmetry of fragility and power, light and dark. The photograph "Dovima and the Elephants" was taken at the Cirque d'Hiver. And the model’s dresses were created by the young and then little-known designer Yves Saint Laurent, who worked as an assistant to Christian Dior.
Harry Benson "Pillow Fight"
1964
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On the evening of January 16, 1964, photographer Harry Benson took one of the most famous photographs of the Fab Four. Participants The group He captured the Beatles having a pillow fight in a room at the Hotel George V in Paris. In general, Benson did not plan to photograph the Beatles. He wanted to go film a “serious story” in Africa. “I saw myself as a serious journalist and didn’t want to make a rock and roll story,” Benson said. But chance nevertheless brought him to Paris, where the Fab Four were at that moment. The pillow fight caught on film began spontaneously. This was the musicians' reaction to the announcement that their single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" had reached number one on the American pop charts.
Neil Armstrong "Man on the Moon"
1969
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The 1969 photo was taken by Neil Armstrong himself. The first man to walk on the moon captured his Apollo 11 crewmate, astronaut Buzz Aldrin. “Most of the time Neil had the camera, and I was the subject of these wonderful shots, because every shot he took was simply magnificent,” Aldrin later recalled. Photography was not included priority tasks astronauts, nevertheless, the photographs became historical and remained in the memory of mankind.
Annie Leibovitz "Demi Moore"
1991
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In 1991, Annie Leibovitz shot Demi Moore nude for the cover of Vanity Fair, when the actress was seven months pregnant. For the early nineties, the photo turned out to be a real shock and created a sensation. The magazine issue went on sale in special packaging envelopes. They hid Moore's naked body, leaving only her eyes open. The cover of Vanity Fair with Moore naked became the most successful for the glossy magazine in its entire existence. And the audience of the issue amounted to more than 100 million readers. Annie Leibovitz herself, however, was quite strict with her photographic work. "I don't think it's Good photo by her own. This is a magazine cover. It would have been a great portrait if Moore hadn’t covered her breasts,” Leibovich noted.
Star selfie from the Oscars
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One selfie was named one of the best photographs of all time by Time. We are talking about a shot taken by TV presenter Ellen DeGeneres during the Oscars in 2014. The photo featured Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities. The frame was posted on Twitter and was retweeted by more than two million people.
In this collection I want to show you unique footage in the history of mankind.
Construction of the world's most famous landmarks, famous people
in memorable moments, legendary bands and places captured on black and white film,
and much more can be seen in the sequel.
Charles Godefroy flies through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on
on his plane Nieuport 11, August 7, 1919.
This is how the capital of Brazil, the city of Brasilia, began to be built.
Construction Eiffel Tower in Paris, July 1888.
B-29 Superfortress bomber called "Enola Gay"
dropped "Baby" ( atomic bomb) to Hiroshima
During the Second World War. It was the first plane to drop
atomic bomb from above.
One of the photos taken during a photo shoot for The Beatles
for the cover of the album "Abbey Road".
Another photo appeared on the cover - in it the Beatles are walking in a different direction.
Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
Albert Einstein's Abitur, obtained at the age of 17.
Filming " Star Wars"inside the iconic Millennium Falcon ship.
The first computer, ENIAC, was made in the USA. For the first time he combined
high-speed electronics with programmability
to solve complex problems. He could add or subtract 5,000 times per second.
Intact seal on the door of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The first Google team in 1999.
The first Wal-Mart supermarket was opened in 1962 by Sam Walton.
Back then it was called Walton's Five and Dime.
One of the first fast food restaurants "McDonald`s",
which opened its doors in 1948.
Henry Ford (founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison
(inventor of the phonograph, film camera and light bulb),
Warren Harding (publisher) and Harvey Samuel Firestone (company founder
for the production of tires and rubber "Firestone Tire and Rubber Co").
On May 28, 1987, 18-year-old German Matthias Rust landed his plane
"Cessna-172B Skyhawk" on Red Square in Moscow.
This incident was regarded as a complete failure of the air defense of the Soviet Union.
One of the first photos taken in Hitler's bunker in 1945.
Madonna, Sting and Tupac at a party.
The quagga is an extinct subspecies of Burchell's zebra. The last living quagga
was photographed by the Zoological Society of London in 1870.
Ticket to the Titanic.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, 1991.
Elvis Presley while serving in the US Army.
The Elvis haircut was very popular among women, 1957.
4-year-old Louis and 2-year-old Lola, survivors of the Titanic.
Frozen Niagara.
Swimming team at the 1948 Olympics.
The real Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh are prototypes of famous fairy-tale heroes. 1926-28
The last photo shoot of The Beatles, August 1969.
Traffic incident: traffic on New York Street is stopped
because of a cat and kitten crossing over it.
Nikola Tesla's laboratory, 1899.
Yuri Gagarin and Fidel Castro in Havana, 1961.
Portrait of Bonnie and Clyde, 1933.
Steve Jobs, 1984.
Salvador Dali on the set of Phillip Halsman, 1954.
Louis Armstrong in Egypt, 1961.
Mount Rushmore layout.
Famous architects dressed as their creations:
Stewart Walker (Fuller Building), Leonard Schultze (Waldorf-Astoria),
Ely Jacques Kahn (Squibb Building), William Van Alen (Chrysler Building),
Ralph Walker (1 Wall Street), D.E.Ward (Metropolitan Tower),
Joseph H. Freelander (Museum of New York).
Fairies from Cottingley. Francis Way and Elsie Hill cut out cardboard men,
They photographed them and passed them off as real fairies.
At the beginning of the 20th century, this story caused a lot of noise, and photographs are still
magical people are considered one of the most talented hoaxes of the 20th century.
Portrait of a woman with tea steam on her chest, 1890.
Lennon's photo is famous because it is not just a photograph. So let's look at the most famous photos and learn about their history
“John F. Kennedy's Assassin Shot”
“Oswald was taken outside. I clutch the camera. The police hold back the pressure of the townspeople. Oswald took a few steps. I press the shutter release. As soon as the shots rang out, I pulled the trigger again, but my flash did not have time to recharge. I started to worry about the first photo and two hours later I went to develop the photos.” – Robert Jackson. This photograph is also one of the most famous in the history of photography.
“Boy with a Grenade”
An innocent boy with a toy grenade in his hand - famous work photographer Diane Arbus. The boy's name is Colin Wood, the son of the famous tennis player Sidney Wood. IN right hand the boy is clutching a grenade, his left hand is empty. The child's face depicts either terror or fear. Diane took a long time to select the shooting angle she needed, and in the end the guy couldn’t stand it and shouted “Shoot already!” In 2005, the photograph sold for $408,000.
“Save the kitten!”
No, this is not a photo from a Korean restaurant. It was the kitten Helulu who decided to check what his owners were preparing for dinner and dived into a pot of noodles.
"Trunks"
Street punks threatening a photographer with a gun. Yes, the child is only 11 years old, and the gun in his hands is a toy. He's just playing his game. But if you look carefully, you won’t see any game in his eyes.
“The Most Famous Kiss”
This kiss became the first photograph of its kind to be recognized throughout the world. The photo was taken in Paris and is called “The Kiss at the City Hall” (Le baiser de l’hotel de ville).
“The Torment of Omaira”
November 13, 1985. Eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano (Colombia). The mountain snow melts, and a 50-meter-thick mass of mud, earth and water literally wipes out everything in its path. The death toll exceeded 23,000 people. The disaster received a huge response around the world, thanks in part to a photo of a little girl named Omaira Sanchaz. She found herself trapped, neck-deep in the slush, her legs trapped in the concrete structure of the house. Rescuers tried to pump out the mud and free the child, but in vain. The girl survived for three days, after which she became infected with several viruses at once. As journalist Cristina Echandia, who was nearby all this time, recalls, Omaira sang and communicated with others. She was scared and constantly thirsty, but she behaved very courageously. On the third night she began to hallucinate. The photograph was taken several hours before death. Photographer - Frank Fournier.
"Trap"
A curious man with a dog fell into a trap carefully placed by the photographer.
"Picasso"
Look at the bread! Just four fingers! That’s why I decided to call this photograph “Picasso,” Picasso told his friend, photographer Duvanuoshi.
“Roadside shops”
Just a few years before the “Great Depression” in the United States. The shops are overflowing with fish, vegetables and fruits. The photo was taken in Alabama, near the railroad.
"Broken mirror"
Two mischievous people broke a mirror and began to collect the pieces. The rest of the children watch what is happening with interest and guilt, while the world around them continues to live its own life.
“Little adults”
Three American girls gossip in an alley in Sevilla, Spain. For a long time, a postcard with this image was the most popular in the United States.
"Winston Churchill"
January 27, 1941: Churchill went into a photographic studio at 10 Downing Street to take some portraits of himself, demonstrating his resilience and determination. However, his look, no matter what, was too relaxed - with a cigar in his hands, great person did not in any way correspond to the image that photographer Yousuf Karsh wanted to achieve. He approached the great politician and with a sharp movement pulled the cigar right out of his mouth. The result is slightly higher. Churchill looks angrily at the photographer, who, in turn, presses the shutter. Thus, humanity received one of the most famous portraits Winston Churchill.
"Retreat"
Retreat Marine Corps USA in 1950 due to inhuman frosts. During the Korean War, General MacArthur overestimated his capabilities and was absolutely confident in the success of the campaign. This is what he thought until the counterattack of the Chinese troops, after which he expressed his famous phrase: “We retreat! Because we are moving in the wrong direction!”
“The Naked Runner”
In 1975, during the rugby final in England, all the main people of the country gathered in the stands - Her Majesty with her retinue, famous politicians... Naked Australian Michael makes a “lap of honor” around the stadium. Rumor has it that the queen fainted. The runner was sentenced to three months in prison.
“Homework”
The photo does not have any specific theme, but the shot is quite famous. The boy proudly marches home, holding two huge bottles of alcohol in his hands. His face radiates joy and a sense of accomplishment. The girls in the background can't hide their admiration.
“Famine in Sudan”
The author of the photograph, Kevin Carter, received the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his work. The card shows a Sudanese girl bent over from hunger. She will die soon, and the big condor in the background is ready for it. The photograph shocked the entire civilized world. No one, including the photographer, knows about the girl’s origins. He took the picture, chased the predator away and watched the child leave. Kevin Carter was a member of the Bang Bang Club, four intrepid photojournalists who traveled across Africa in search of photo sensations. Two months after receiving the award, Carter committed suicide. Perhaps haunted by horrific memories of what he saw in Sudan.
"Marilyn"
Marilyn Monroe. During the shooting, the girl looked away, which gave the photo even more charm, mystery and mood.
“Suffering in the Look”
Between the winter of 1948 and the spring of 1949, Henry Cartier Bresson traveled with his camera to Beijing, Shanghai and other cities. This photo was taken in Nanjing. The photo shows a line of starving people buying rice.
"After you…"
Terry and Thomson decide who will start (or finish?) dinner. Hamster Jim had no idea that he would be served at the table today. All three are Mark Andrew's pets. Off the camera, these three are wonderful and loyal comrades!
“Victory in Time Square”
After the end of World War II, a photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Time Square made the rounds of all the newspapers. The image illustrates joy and love. According to legend, 40 years later, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt decided to find sweet couple, and he succeeded. He was greeted by happy grandparents surrounded by a noisy crowd of children and grandchildren! This photograph is considered the most famous photograph.
From our review it is clear that the most famous photographs in stories were achieved without hours of preparatory work, without carefully working out the plot. Created in a second, they last for decades.
The Afghan Mona Lisa, Gula Sharbat, was 12 years old at the time of filming. As a result of an attack on her city by Soviet helicopters, her parents were killed, and Gula herself, along with her grandmother and brothers and sisters, fled to a camp on the border with Pakistan. It was there that she was “caught” by Steve McCurry's lens in 1984 - the photo became famous thanks to being on the cover of National Geographic a year later. Now Gula is married to a baker and they have three children.
New York, 1932 Eleven construction workers decided to have a snack in front of the lens of Charles Ebbets. True, below them there are hundreds of meters of air, and at the very bottom are the busy streets of Manhattan. The shooting location is the construction site of Rockefeller Center, a complex of business buildings in the center of Manhattan, which until 1989 belonged to the Rockefeller family, but even after the sale to the Mitsubishi concern did not change their name.
The photographer brought the legendary staged photo of the great military photojournalist Evgeniy Khaldei to the location with him, and also asked several soldiers he accidentally met to pose for him. These were the soldiers of the 8th Guards Army Alexey Kovalev (holding the banner), Abdulkhakim Ismailov and Leonid Gorichev. Photo taken May 2, 1945
The photo was taken on August 14, 1945, on the so-called V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day) - a symbol of the end of the war for the Americans, the surrender of Japan. The photo's creator, Alfred Eisenstadt, called it "unconditional surrender."
Inventive Photoshop: a tourist is supposedly standing on one of the buildings of the World Trade Center, which one of the airliners is about to crash into. Initially it was claimed that the “tourist” was found in the ruins of the Twin Towers. The photo was taken in 1997: it shows 25-year-old tourist from Hungary Peter Guzli; he added the plane to the picture later. “Tourist” became one of the heroes of photo-memes, like the Stoned Fox.
The most famous photographic "fake". The photo was allegedly taken by the village surgeon Robert Wilson - in fact wooden mockup Loch Ness monster was made by his fellow villager Marmaduke Wetherell and his son. Marmaduke took the photo, and then persuaded Wilson to take the authorship. The scam came to light in 1994, when Marmaduke’s son admitted to what he had done.
On his birthday - and the hero of the photo turned 72 years old - Einstein feasted at Princeton University. After the holiday, he, his colleague and his wife got into the car, they were surrounded by photographers, and one of them, Arthur Szasz, asked the professor to smile. Einstein's colleague rolled down the window, and the birthday boy... proved that age has no power over geniuses.
The grave of a Catholic wife and Protestant husband, who could not be buried side by side, is located in the city of Limburg, the Netherlands.
One of the most famous photographic portraits in history made by the great portrait painter Yusuf Karsh. Winston Churchill turned out to be menacing because a few moments before the flash, the photographer took his cigar from him.
In a few minutes, Suge Knight's car (at the wheel) will be shot at by unknown assailants from a white Cadillac - Suge will receive minor injuries from glass fragments, the great rapper will die a little later in the hospital from wounds received in the chest, pelvis and thigh. Some of the ashes will be smoked by Tupac's friends mixed with marijuana.
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