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

Alexander Rodchenko

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

All these hypostases constituted an indissoluble unity in his work.

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

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

Henri-Cartier Bresson

A classic of street photography. Born in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne, France. He began as an artist, painting in the genre of "surrealism", but his achievements are not limited to this. In the early 30s, when the famous "Leica" fell into his hands, he fell in love with photography forever.

Already in the 33rd year, an exhibition of his works was held at Julien Levy, a gallery in New York. He worked with director Jean Renoir. Bresson's street reporting is especially appreciated.

His contemporaries especially noted his talent to remain invisible to the person being photographed.

Therefore, the non-staged, authentic nature of his photographs is striking. As a true genius, he left a galaxy of talented followers.

Anton Corbijn

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

The most original and outstanding photographs of such bands as: Depeche Mode, U2, Nirvana, Joy Division and others were taken by Anton. He is also the album designer for the U2 group. Plus he shot music videos for a number of bands and artists, including: Coldplay, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, country legend Johnny Cash, thrash metal mastodons Metallica, singer Roxette.

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

Mick Rock

There are paparazzi photographers who, without asking, invade the personal lives of stars and are ruthlessly thrown out of there. And there are people like Mick Rock.

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

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

Georgy Pinkhasov

The original photographer of his generation, a member of the Magnum agency, a graduate of VGIK. It was Georgy who was invited by Andrei Tarkovsky to the set of the film "Stalker" as a reporter.

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

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

Annie Leibovitz

Essential name for our list of the best photographers. Annie made immersion in the model's life her main creative principle.

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

“At that time I still did not know how to manage models, ask them to do what I need. I just measured the exposure and asked John to look into the lens for a second. And she clicked ... "

The result immediately hit the cover of Rolling Stone. The last photo shoot in Lennon's life was also conducted by her. The same photo in which naked John curled up in a ball around Yoko Ono, dressed in all black. Who just did not get into the camera lens of Annie Leibovitz: pregnant Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, bathing in milk, Jack Nicholson, playing golf in a dressing gown, Michelle Obama, Natalia Vodianova, Meryl Streep. You can't list all of them.

Sara Moon

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

One can note her sensitive work with models, since Sarah knew about their profession firsthand. Her works are particularly sensual; Sarah is noted for her talent to convey the femininity of her models with particular sensitivity.

In the 70s, Sarah leaves the modeling sphere and turns to black and white art photography. In 1979 he made an experimental film. Subsequently she worked as a cameraman on the set of the film "Lulu", which will receive the 1987 Venice Film Festival Prize.

Sally Man

Another female photographer. Born in Lexington, Virginia. She practically never left her native places. Since the 70s, in principle, it has been working only in the South of the United States.

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

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

Sebastian Salgado

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

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

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

Ouiji (Arthur Fellig)

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

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

His photographs formed the basis for Jules Dassin's Naked City noir, and Ouija is also featured in Zach Snyder's Watchmen. And also the famous director Stanley Kubrick in his youth learned from him the art of photography. Check out the early genius films, they are definitely influenced by the Ouija aesthetic.

Irwin Penn

Master in the portrait genre. You can note that he has a number of favorite techniques: from shooting models in the corner of a room to using a solid white or gray background.

Irwin also loved to photograph representatives of various workers in the profession in their uniforms and with tools at the ready. The brother of the director of "New Hollywood" Arthur Penn, known for his "Bonnie and Clyde".

Diana Arbus

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

Diana was distinguished by a craving for violating generally accepted norms and for committing extravagant acts. At the age of 13, against the will of her parents, she married Alan Arbus, an aspiring actor, and took his last name. After a while, Alan left the stage and took up photography, involving his wife in the case. They opened a photo studio and shared responsibilities. Creative differences led to a rift in the 60s. Having defended her creative principles, Diana became a cult photographer.

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

Evgeny Khaldey

A very important photographer on our list. Thanks to him, the key events of the first half of the 20th century are captured. As a teenager, he chose the path of a photojournalist.

At the age of 22 he is an employee of TASS Photo Chronicle. He made reports about Stakhanov, captured the construction of the Dneproges. He worked as a war correspondent throughout the Great Patriotic War. Having walked from Murmansk to Berlin with his faithful Leica camera, he took a number of photographs, thanks to which we can imagine at least a little of war everyday life today.

The Potsdam Conference, the hoisting of the red banner over the Reichstag, the act of surrender of Nazi Germany and other important events fell into the eye of his lens. In 1995, two years before his death, Yevgeny Khaldey received the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature.

Mark Ribou

Master of reporting genre. His first famous photograph, printed in Life - "Painter at the Eiffel Tower." Recognized as a photography genius, Ribu was distinguished by his humble personality.

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

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

Richard Kern

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

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

But his approach is far from the generally accepted glossy one. In his free time from photography, he takes pictures of clips. Bands Kern has collaborated with include Sonic Youth and Marilyn Manson.

Thomas Morkes

Do you want calmness, silence, and maybe desertion? Then this is one of the most suitable candidates. Tomas Morkes from Czech Republic is a landscape photographer who has chosen the charm of autumn nature as his theme. These pictures have everything: romance, sadness, the triumph of wilting.

One of the effects of Thomas' photographs is the desire to get out of the city noise into some such jungle and reflect on the Eternal.

Yuri Artyukhin

Considered the best wildlife photographer. He is a researcher at the Laboratory of Ornithology at the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Yuri is passionate about birds.

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

Helmut Newton

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

Helmut became famous all over the world for his works. His unspoken motto was the expression "Sex sells", which means "sex helps to sell."

Laureate of the most prestigious competitions, including awards - the French "Order of Arts and Literature".

Ron Galella

Covering various areas of photography, one cannot but say about the pioneer of such a dubious and at the same time important for understanding the modern world of the genre as the paparazzi.

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

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

Guy Bourdain

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

He published the first pictures in the mid-50s. The photo was provocative, to put it mildly: a girl in an elegant hat with calf heads peeping out of a butcher's window in the background. For the next 32 years, Bourdain regularly contributed amusing pictures to Vogue magazine. What set him apart from many of his colleagues was that Bourdin was given complete creative freedom.

In our years, there is only one way to get rich, become famous and go down in history as a photographer - by doing anything but photography. A hundred years ago, you could have become a great photo artist easily, since there were two key prerequisites:

a. photography was a complex, troublesome and little-known craft;

b. Slowly, technologies arose and were introduced that made it possible to reproduce photographs in newspapers and (a little later) in color magazines.

That is, the glorious moment has come when you, having pressed the shutter button, already understood that this frame would be seen by millions. But these millions did not yet know that they could do the same, since there were no digital soap boxes, full automation and photo dumps on the Internet. Well, talent, of course. You have no competition!

Perhaps the middle of the last century should be recognized as the golden era of photography. However, many of the artists on our list belong to other distant and modern eras.

Helmut Newton, Germany, 1920-2004

Slightly more than a great and famous fashion photographer with a very, very independent understanding of what erotica is. He was fiercely demanded by almost all glossy magazines, Vogue, Elle and Playboy in the first place. He died at 84 after crashing into a concrete wall at full speed.

Richard Avedon, USA, 1923-2004

God of black and white portrait, interesting also because delving into his galleries, you will find anyone. The photographs of this genius New York Jew have absolutely everything. They say that Richard took his first picture at the age of nine, when the kid accidentally caught Sergei Rachmaninov through the lens.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, France, 1908-2004

An outstanding photorealist, one of the patriarchs of photo essay and at the same time - an invisible man: he had a filigree talent for being able to remain visible to those whom he photographs. At first he studied to be an artist, where he earned a craving for light surrealism, which was then tangibly imprinted in his photographs.

Sebastian Salgado, Brazil, 1944

The creator of almost fantastic images taken in fact from the real world. Salgado was a photojournalist who was especially attracted to anomalies, misfortunes, poverty and environmental disasters - but even such stories of his are mesmerizing with beauty. In 2014, director Wim Wenders made a film about him entitled "Salt of the Earth" (special prize of the Cannes Film Festival).

William Eugene Smith, USA, 1918-1978

A photojournalist, perhaps famous for everything a photojournalist can become famous for - from canonical military photographs to expressive and touching portraits of great and ordinary people. Below, as an example - frames of a session with Charlie Chaplin for Life magazine.

Guy Bourdin, France, 1928-1991

One of the most copied, imitated photographers in the world. Erotic, surreal. Now - a quarter of a century after his death - it is more and more relevant and modern.

Viji (Arthur Fellig), USA, 1899-1968

An immigrant from Eastern Europe, now - the great classic of street and crime photography. A person managed to come to any incident in New York - be it a fire, a murder or a banal scuffle - faster than other paparazzi and, often, the police. However, in addition to all kinds of emergencies, his photographs show almost all aspects of life in the poorest quarters of the metropolis. Based on his photo, the film noir Naked City (1945) was filmed, Stanley Kubrick studied from his shots, and Ouiji himself is mentioned at the beginning of the comic film Watchmen (2009).

Alexander Rodchenko, USSR, 1891-1956

The pioneer of Soviet design and advertising, Rodchenko, for all this, is a pioneer of constructivism. Expelled from the Union of Artists for deviating from the ideals and style of socialist realism, but, fortunately, it did not come to the camps - he died a natural death at the dawn of the Khrushchev "thaw".

Irwin Penn, USA, 1917-2009

Master of portrait and fashion genre. He is famous for the whole abundance of his own signature pieces - for example, to shoot people in the corner of the room or on all sorts of gray, ascetic backgrounds. He is famous for his catchphrase: "Shooting a cake can also be an art."

Anton Corbein, Netherlands, 1955

The most prominent rock photographer in the world, whose ascent began with iconic photography and video clips for Depeche Mode and U2. His handwriting is easily recognizable - strong defocus and atmospheric noise. Corbain also directed several films: Control (biography of Joy Division frontman), American (with George Clooney) and Most Dangerous Man (based on the novel by Le Carré). If you google the famous photos of Nirvana, Metallica or Tom Waits, chances are that Corbijn's photos will be the first to appear.

Stephen Meisel, USA, 1954

One of the most successful fashion photographers in the world, whose name became especially popular in 1992 after the release of Madonna's photo book "Sex". Considered the discoverer of many catwalk superstars such as Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista or Amber Valletta.

Diana Arbus, USA, 1923-1971

Her real name is Diana Nemerova, and she found her niche in photography by working with the most unattractive nature - freaks, dwarfs, transvestites, imbeciles ... At best, with nudists. In 2006, the biopic Fur was released, starring Nicole Kidman as Diana.

David LaChapelle, USA, 1963

The master of pop photography ("pop" in the good sense of the word) LaChapelle, in particular, shot clips for Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera, so you will understand his style not only from the photographs.

Marc Ribout, France, (1923-2016)

The author of at least a dozen "prints of the era": you must have seen a million times how a hippie girl brings a daisy to the barrel of a rifle. Ribu has traveled all over the world and is most revered for his portfolios from filming China and Vietnam, although you can also find his scenes from the life of the Soviet Union. Died at the age of 93.

Elliott Erwitt, France, 1928

A Frenchman with Russian roots, famous for his ironic and absurd view of our troubled world, which is very mobile in his still photographs. Not so long ago, he also began exhibiting in galleries under the name André S. Solidor, which is abbreviated as "ass".

Patrick Demarchelier, France / USA, 1943

Still a living classic of fashion photography, which has enriched this genre with a particularly complex sophistication. And at the same time, he lowered the transcendental degree of glamorous oversizedness, which was the norm before him.

Annie Leibovitz, USA, 1949

A master of fairy-tale plots with a very powerful charge of wit, understandable even to simpletons who are far from hyperglamour. Not surprisingly, lesbian Annie started out as a staff photographer for Rolling Stone magazine.

What makes a photographer famous? Decades in the profession, gained or invaluable experience? No, only his photographs make a photographer famous. The list of famous photographers in the world consists of people with a bright personality, attention to detail, and the highest professionalism. After all, it is not enough just to be in the right place at the right time, you also need to be able to correctly display what is happening. Being a good photographer is not easy, let alone a professional one. We want to introduce you to some of the greatest classics of photography and examples of their work.

Ansel Adams

“What a photographer is able to see, and what he can say about what he sees, is of incomparably greater importance than the quality of technical equipment ..."(Ansel Adams)

Ansel Adams (Ansel easton adams February 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984) is an American photographer best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West. Ansel Adams, on the one hand, was gifted with a subtle artistic flair, on the other, he was fluent in photography technique. His photographs are full of almost epic power. They combine the features of symbolism and magical realism, inspiring the impression of "the first days of Creation." During his life, he has created over 40,000 photographs and participated in more than 500 exhibitions around the world.

Yusuf Karsh

“If, looking at my portraits, you learn something more significant about the people depicted on them, if they help you sort out your feelings about someone whose work has left a mark on your brain - if you look at a photograph and say: “Yes, it’s him” and at the same time you learn something new about the person - it means this is a really successful portrait ”( Yusuf Karsh)

Yusuf Karsh(Yousuf Karsh, December 23, 1908 - July 13, 2002) - Canadian photographer of Armenian origin, one of the masters of portrait photography. During his life, he made portraits of 12 US presidents, 4 Pope, all British prime ministers, Soviet leaders - Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, as well as Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Bernard Shaw and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Robert Capa

“A photograph is a document, looking at which one with eyes and heart begins to feel that not everything is safe in the world” ( Robert Capa)

Robert Capa (real name Endre Ernö Friedman, October 22, 1913, Budapest - May 25, 1954, Tonkin, Indochina) is a photojournalist of Jewish origin, born in Hungary. Robert Capa had no intention of becoming a photographer; life circumstances pushed him to this. It was only courage, adventurism and a flamboyant visual talent that made him one of the most famous war reporters of the twentieth century.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

«... using photography, you can fix infinity at one moment in time... "(Henri-Cartier Bresson)

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 2, 1908 - August 3, 2004) is one of the main photographers of the 20th century. The father of photojournalism. One of the founders of the Magnum Photos photo agency. Was born in France. He was fond of painting. He paid great attention to the role of time and the “decisive moment” in photography.

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange (Dorothea Margarette Nutzhorn, May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) - American photographer and photojournalist / Her photographs, vivid, striking in the very heart with their frankness, openness of pain and hopelessness, are a silent testimony of what hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans, homeless, and elementary means of subsistence had to endure and all hope.

This photograph has literally been the epitome of the Great Depression over the years. Dorothea Lange took the picture while visiting a vegetable picker camp in California in February 1936 to show the world the resilience and resilience of a proud nation in difficult times.

Brassai

“There is always a chance - and each of us hopes for it. Only a bad photographer takes one chance in a hundred, while a good one takes everything. "

“Every creative person has two birth dates. The second date - when he will understand what his true calling is - is much more important than the first "

"The goal of art is to raise people to a level that they could not have reached in another way."

“There are many photographs full of life, but incomprehensible and quickly forgotten. They lack strength - and this is the most important thing. "(Brassai)

Brassai (Gyula Halas, September 9, 1899 - July 8, 1984) is a Hungarian and French photographer, painter and sculptor. In the photographs of Brassay, we see the mysterious Paris in the light of street lamps, squares and houses, foggy embankments, bridges and almost fabulous wrought iron lattices. One of his favorite techniques was reflected in a series of photographs taken under the headlights of rare cars at the time.

Brian Duffy

“I have seen every photograph taken since 1972 before. Nothing new. After a while, I realized that the photo was dead ... "Brian Duffy

Brian Duffy (15 June 1933 - 31 May 2010) is an Angian photographer. Before his camera, at one time, stood John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Sammy Davis Jr., Michael Caine, Sidney Poitier, David Bowie, Joanna Lumley and William Burroughs.

Jerry Welsman

“I believe that a person's ability to convey things beyond the visible is enormous. This phenomenon can be observed in all genres of fine arts, as we are in a constant search for new ways to explain the world, which sometimes opens up before us in moments of understanding that goes beyond the boundaries of our usual experience. "(Jerry Welsman)

Jerry Welsman (1934) - American theorist of the art of photography, teacher, one of the most interesting photographers of the second half of the twentieth century, a master of mysterious collages and visual interpretations. The talented photographer's surreal collages conquered the world when Photoshop was not yet in the project. However, even now the author of unusual works remains faithful to his own technique and believes that miracles are happening in a darkened darkroom.

Annie Liebovitz

“When I say that I want to photograph someone, it means that I want to get to know him. Everyone I know, I photograph ”( Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz)

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz (Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz; genus. October 2, 1949, Waterbury, Connecticut) is a famous American photographer. Specializes in celebrity portraits. Today it is the most popular among women photographers. Her work graces magazine covers Vogue, Vanity Fair, New Yorker and Rolling Stone, she posed naked John Lennon and Betty Midler, Whoopi Goldberg and Demi Moore, Sting and Devine. Annie Leibovitz managed to break the stereotypes of beauty in fashion, introduce older faces, wrinkles, everyday cellulite and imperfection of forms into the photo arena.

Jerry Gionis

"Take at least five minutes a day to try to accomplish the impossible - and you will soon feel the difference" ( Jerry Gionis).

Jerry Gionis - top wedding photographer from Australia is a true master of his genre! It is not for nothing that he is considered one of the most successful masters of this trend in the world.

Colbert Gregory

Gregory Colbert (1960, Canada) - a pause in our fast-paced world. Stop on the run. Absolute silence and concentration. The beauty is in silence and stillness. The feeling of delight from the feeling of belonging with a huge living creature - the planet Earth - these are the emotions that evoke his work. For 13 years, he made 33 (thirty three) expeditions to the most remote and exotic corners of our vast and at the same time such a tiny planet: India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, Antarctica. He set himself one task - to reflect in his works the amazing relationship between man and nature, the animal world.

In fact, the list of the greatest photographers is quite long, to name just a few.

The image can speak all languages. And their language is understood not only by photographers, but also by photography lovers, simply grateful viewers. Photography has witnessed the evolution of cameras - from the traditional pinhole camera to the modern digital camera. All of them have been used to obtain excellent images. When you think of some of the most famous photographers of the past and present, you realize that photography is an art, not a mere freeze of the moment.

When William Henry Fox Talbot invented the negative / positive photographic process, he probably had no idea how popular his invention would be. Today, photography, and thus the specialization of photographers, is divided into different categories that range from fashion, wildlife, interiors, portraits, travel, food to ... The list is endless. Let's take a look at some of the most famous photographers in the most popular photography categories. We will also see examples of their work.

Fashion

Irving Penn
This American photographer is known for his chic and elegant shots, especially from the post-World War II era. Since 1938 he has been collaborating with Vogue magazine and actively uses the technique of white and gray backgrounds. It is his use of this technique that makes him the greatest photographer of the day. Penn's photography art was always one step ahead of its time. A series of nude shots made a lot of noise.

Terence Donovan
This British photographer was renowned for his photographs depicting the fashion world in the 60s. His indefatigable thirst for adventure was reflected in his work, and models performed quite daring tricks to obtain beautiful images. With around 3,000 advertising images, this man was a regular in the homes of London's wealthiest citizens and was a popular celebrity photographer.

Richard Avedon
It was he who moved away from the traditional understanding of models. Born in New York and founded his studio in 1946. Richard Avedon showed the models in natural light, and many of his works have been published in the pages of the magazines "Vogue" and "Life". As a photographer, he received many awards in his time and the images he created were recognized all over the world.

Nature and Wildlife

Ansel Adams
Was born in the city of San Francisco. He made a huge contribution to the development of black and white photography. He was interested in issues related to nature. Ansel Adams is the author of several epic photographic murals. Received three Guggenheim Fellowships.

Frans Lanting
France was born in Rotterdam. His work could be seen on the pages of such magazines as National Geographic, Life, Outdoor Photographer. Frans traveled a lot and his photographs clearly show his love for the flora and fauna of the rainforest.

Galen Rowell
Over the years, Galen has conveyed the relationship between man and the desert. His photographs conveyed the captivating and magnetic beauty of these sultry places like nothing else. 1984 Prize Winner. Collaborated with many famous publications of that time. Rowell's work was distinguished by the depth and scope of everything new in the displayed topic.

Photojournalism

Henri Cartier-Bresson ( Henri cartier—Bresson)
French photographer who has influenced the development of photojournalism for many years. Received international acclaim for his coverage of Gandhi's funeral in India in 1948. He traveled extensively around the world and strongly believed that the art of a photojournalist is to capture the "right" moment. Some call him the father of photography.

Eddie Adams
Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of over 500 prizes. His photographs depicting the Vietnam War from the inside shocked the whole world. Adams also shot portraits of celebrities, politicians and military leaders of the time. He believed that the photographer must be able to manipulate the scene in order to reflect the truth.

Felice Beato
Famous "war photographer". His penchant for travel has allowed him to capture a multitude of people's moods and moments in different corners of the earth. Visited India, Japan, China. It was Felice who captured the Indian uprising of 1857 and the events of the second Opium War. His powerful and immortal works are still a source of inspiration for photojournalists today.

Portrait photography

Ueno Hikoma
Born in Nagasaki. Portraits and landscape photographs brought fame. He started with his own commercial studio, where he gained tremendous experience in portrait photography. Author of portraits of many famous and famous people of that time. In 1891 he made a portrait of the Russian heir to the throne.

Philippe Halsman
Despite the fact that Halsman suffered several setbacks in his personal life early on, this did not stop him from becoming a magnificent portrait painter of his time. His photographs were somewhat harsh and dark and differed significantly from the portraits of the time. The portraits were published in many magazines of the time, including Vogue. After meeting the surrealist artist Salvador Dali, he decides to make a surreal portrait of Dali, a skull and seven nude figures. Three hours were spent on the implementation of the planned work. It was he who developed the philosophy of displaying a person in motion, in a jump. He believed that this was the only way to show a “real” person from the inside. At the height of his career, he made portraits of celebrities such as Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Judy Garland and Pablo Picasso.

Hiro Kikai ( Hiroh Kikai)
The monochrome portraits of the inhabitants of the Asakusa area (Tokyo) brought fame to this Japanese photographer. In his early years, he witnessed many confrontations and spent all his free time photographing visitors to Asakusa. A perfectionist by nature, he could spend several days looking for the right person - the subject of photography.

Aerial photography

Talbert Abrams
The first pictures in this category were taken while serving in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. Photographic images of the squadron during the insurgency in Haiti helped to decide to continue the art.

William Garnett ( William Garnett)
Born in Chicago in 1916 and began his career as a photographer and graphic designer in 1938. Assisted the US Army in the production of training films for the US military. By 1949, he had already acquired his own plane and switched to aerial photography.

Underwater photography

Dustin Humphrey
Surfer and photography enthusiast with his own photo studio in Bali. Surfing hobbies helped him to shoot simply gorgeous photographs for which he received the Sony World Photography Award in 2009. It's amazing how he managed to gather so many people and shoot all this without a single editing!

Sometimes one photo can replace 1000 words. Talented photographers know this and know how to penetrate our hearts through this amazing art form. The art of photography has fascinated us for many years.

Today we have access to technologies that can make beautiful pictures even from ordinary photographs. We use photo editors, buy the latest digital cameras and cool photographic paper like this www.inksystem.kz/paper-dlya-plotter for a plotter. We get good pictures on this matte paper and can print them on a plotter. But to become a truly talented photographer, you need more. A list of the most popular photographers of all time and their most famous photographs.

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Jay Meisel is a renowned contemporary photographer who has become popular for his simple yet original photographs. Despite not using complex lighting, he manages to capture vivid and gorgeous footage.

2. Red wall and rope - Jay Meisel.

Brian Duffy was a renowned British fashion photographer from the 60s and 70s. At one time he lost interest in photography and burned most of his works, but then his love for photography returned to him.

Brassai is the pseudonym of Gyula Halas, a famous photographer who became famous for taking pictures of ordinary people. His shots are an expression of pure feelings and emotions.

Annie Leibovitz specializes in portraits. The photographer became famous for her collaboration with Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone magazine. Her stunning celebrity photography makes her the world's most sought after celebrity photographer.

Jerry Welsmann is famous for his collages. In Jerry's work there is not a single gram of photoshop. All this is the result of the master of the darkroom.

Robert Capa is known for his war photographs. He has attended five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the Arab-Israeli War, and the First Vietnam War.