Shots Ages: 12 pictures with a unique history

1. First Lady of the Internet h2> In 1973, a group of scientists from the University of Southern California looking for a test image with good dynamic range for the study of digital image compression. Their choice, they stopped on the girl of the month of the November issue of Playboy, which lay in the laboratory. One of the researchers, Alexander Savchuk, scanned fragment of a poster with a resolution of 100 lines per inch. To obtain an image size of 512 by 512 pixels. File was named model - Lenna.



Gradually Lenna became the industry standard and the industry is still used in scientific studies to validate and illustrate algorithms for image processing (compression, noise reduction and so on. d.). This is the first time the image has been digitally transferred to the network ARPANET, which was the prototype of the modern Internet.

Playboy initially threatened to sue for unauthorized use of photos, but then changed his mind, on the contrary, telling in its advertising of the event. The November issue eventually became the best-selling in the history of the magazine, he has sold an instance of 7,161,561.

2. Nuba wrestlers h2> Nuba or "hill people" - the common name of nationalities living on the border of Sudan and South Sudan in the Nuba Mountains. In 1947, photographer George Rodger and his wife, traveling in Africa, on the instructions of National Geographic, found out about the Nuba, who lived the same way as their ancestors did thousands of years ago. Roger received permission from the Sudanese government to document the life of the tribe. In 1949, the pair became the first photographers who took pictures of the life and customs of these "people of the hills».

Among their many photographs of staged shots, but the most famous was the documentary photos from sports events, tribal ceremonies and dances Nuba. Published in 1952, National Geographic Photo wrestlers gained the greatest fame. She has appeared everywhere: on postcards and in books. For many years, so it was a portrait of Africa.

3. Leap to Freedom h2> 15 August 1961. 19-year-old non-commissioned officer in the GDR Hans Conrad Schumann was sent to the intersection of Ruppiner Straße and Bernauer Straße guard started two days before the construction of the Berlin Wall. At this stage, the wall was only a barbed wire fence. Under the pretext of checking fences Schumann hurting the wire in one place leg. His actions attracted the attention and the west side of him cried out "to jump!" And drove the police car stopped at 10 meters, and opened the door, waiting for him.



19-year-old photographer Peter Lyaybing, seconded to the wall by the Federal Republic of Germany, one and a half hours watching a nervous soldier. "I did not take his eyes off him for over an hour. I had the feeling that he was going to jump. It was a kind of instinct. ... I learned to do it on the race derby in Hamburg. We need to do a photo at a time when the horse off the ground, but before it crosses the barrier. ... And this moment has come. I pressed the shutter button, it was all over ».

Photo Lyaybinga won the Overseas Press Club award for "Best Photography" in 1961. Conrad Schumann lived in West Berlin. After the fall of the Wall, he moved to his native Bavaria. But parents, brothers and sisters avoided Conrad, condemning his act. Tormented by depression Hans Conrad Schumann June 20, 1998 he is hanged himself in the garden of his house.

4. Queen Elizabeth II h2> In March 2007, Annie Leibovitz - the famous American photographer specializing in portraits of celebrities - made several portraits of British Queen Elizabeth II. In the picture shown above, the queen, dressed in white and gold evening dress, fur capes and diamond tiara sits in a white living room of Buckingham Palace. The inspiration was the picture of Annie Leibovitz "Queen Charlotte" Thomas Gainsborough exhibited at the National Gallery.



Leibovitz recalls filming so. "She (the Queen) came into the room as quickly as she allowed her heavy regalia, and muttered:" Why should I carry all those heavy clothes in the middle of the day ?! "I just admire her».

5. Titanic h2> «Titanic» - the British steamship company "White Star Line" was founded March 31, 1909 at the shipyards of shipbuilding company "Harlend and Wolff" in Northern Ireland and launched on May 31, 1911. The ship was considered unsinkable. And when the "New York Times" was released with the title "The disaster on the Titanic" - it was a sensation. The rest of the paper, based on the information shipbuilding company "White Star Line", spoke about "some problems after hitting an iceberg».



Ned Parfett, 15-year-old young man in the photograph, is selling a newspaper close to the Oceanic House, which houses the office of "White Star Line».

6. Embrace "hoodie» h2> It's no secret that in the United Kingdom found a large number of street cameras. Therefore, the "uniform" of young offenders became Hoodie (hoddie), allowing to hide her face. In 2006-2007. she even became a political symbol.

Following the introduction in 2006, the restrictions on the wearing of this garment, David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, made a speech in the "Center for Social Justice Ian Duncan Smith" and described his vision of the problem.

Although the speech David Cameron never spoke of arms, this part of the campaign, the future prime minister was named "Embrace" hoodies "." In 2007, the year Cameron visited one of the most deprived estates in Manchester. The photograph seventeen Ryan Florenci "shoots" in the party leader, to impress friends.

7. Nord-Ost h2> October 23, 2002 a group of armed militants led by Movsar Barayev seized the building of the House of Culture "Moscow Bearing" which was the musical "Nord-Ost '. Confrontation intelligence agencies and terrorists lasted three days. October 26th through ventilation of the building began pumping sleeping gas. Experts believe that it was a chemical agent on the basis of fentanyl, but the exact composition of the gas remained unknown, including doctors and rescue hostages.



As a result of a terrorist act according to official figures 130 people were killed, including 10 children. Among the hostages 5 people were shot before the assault, the others died after the liberation as a result of the toxic effects of the gas. Although the presence of the press at the scene was limited Sunday Telegraph photographer Justin Sutcliffe managed to take a picture of a liberated woman was unconscious on the bus immediately after the storming of the theater center.

Photo won World Press Photo 2003. Sunday Telegraph journalists tried to find out the fate of a woman with photographs. Unfortunately, it is not known what the outcome of these searches.

8. Jesse Owens h2> XI Summer Olympics held in Berlin from 1 to 16 August 1936. Hitler used the games as a propaganda tool. The opening of the Olympic Games for the first time broadcast on television live, Olympic events become material for the film Leni Riefenstahl "Olympia". However, the Nazis could not control the results of games. 4 gold medals and the American black athlete Jesse Owens cool questioned Hitler's theory of racial superiority.

9. Newspaper headlines after November 22, 1963 h2> Carl Maydans 36 years in the magazine LIFE. He was a staff photographer for the whole period, when the magazine is published weekly (from 1936 to 1972). His images were captured scenes of punishment of French women who collaborated with the Nazis; the release of prisoners from the camp of Santo Tomas; Japan surrendered aboard the battleship "Missouri"; Fukui earthquake in Japan in 1948. The picture above was taken in train to Stamford, Connecticut, the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

10. Alfred Krupp h2> By order NEWSWEEK editorial Arnold Newman contacted known industrialist Alfried Krupp. In addition, Alfred Krupp was known as a businessman, it was for the glory of a war criminal, who used slave labor to manufacture weapons for the Nazis.



I am learning that Newman Jew Krupp refused to shoot, but Newman insisted that Krupp would have looked at his portfolio before making a final decision. Seeing pictures Krupp changed his mind. July 6, 1963 the industrialist and photographer started shooting at a factory in Essen, the one where the prisoners worked.

When Krupp first saw the portrait, he was furious. Newman also announced: "I - a Jew, and this - my little revenge».

11. The explosion of joy h2> Photo "The explosion of joy" Slava Veder is a Pulitzer Prize winner. The picture was taken March 17, 1973 at the military base and Travis became a symbol of the war in Vietnam. In the frame of Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm meets with his family after five years of captivity in North Vietnam. Fighter-bomber F-105, with a lieutenant colonel, was shot down over Hanoi October 27, 1967, and Stirm kept in captivity until March 14, 1973.



The centerpiece of the photograph takes Stirma daughter - 15-year-old Lorrie, the father meets with open arms. Other family members follow it. Despite the joy zapechetlennuyu in the picture, the family was not happy. During the three days prior to arrival in the United States, Robert Stirm received a letter from his wife, which reported that their relationship is over. In 1974, Lt. Col. divorced.

After the photo was laureth premiums, all family members have received a copy of the picture. However, Robert Stirm never hung it in his house, t. To. Was "unable to look at it».

12. Firefighter buys pumpkins h2> On the cover of the liberal American prospect, devoted to roadside America, was placed devilishly strange picture. Firefighter buys the pumpkin until the farm where the fire appears, and brought him back to burn in the background. Photographed photographer Joel Sternfeld, passing on their "Volkswagen" through the town of McLean, Virginia.



In this case, the fire was controlled workout, but his fire at the time there was a break. However, this fact was overlooked by the public. When the photo was printed, first in the Life, and then in many other magazines and exhibitions, signature pointed to the picture only "Joel Sternfeld. McLean, Virginia. December 1978 ". Photographer Sam reveled in this ambiguity. In an interview in 2004 the newspaper The Guardian, where the journalist called him a chronicler of the "sinister curiosity of modern America," he said:

"Photography has always known how to manipulate. Every time you impose a framework on the world around - you already interpretiruesh. I can point the camera at two bystanders and do not take the shot the homeless lying right of them, or murder, which occurs on the left. You take 35 degrees of 360 and call it a photo. There are an infinite number of ways to take a picture. Photographer - it is always the author ».

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