On your holiday we wish
Good luck in job,
On photographer's day
Respect to you, gentlemen!
Talented pictures,
Careers on the rise!
And your work is appreciated
Let it always be!
Photography for a person -
This is a memory forever.
And she brings us feelings
After many years.
So accept congratulations,
I wish you creative victories.
Reward from fate.
Your work is praised with gratitude.
Today we hasten to congratulate people who are endowed with the gift of capturing the most joyful and exciting moments of our lives. Happy Photographer's Day! We wish you bright flashes, successful lighting, creative ideas and only happy faces in the frame.
On photographer's day I wish
Be happy for no reason.
To be involved in this
You are number one.
So that the shots are successful
Only the best always.
So that everyone smiles at you
Without much difficulty!
Capture rare moments
Let every frame be clear.
Calls you into the world of photo compliments
Your most amazing gift.
On Photographer's Day I wish
Positive and good luck to you.
Let happiness hug you tightly.
Magic backgrounds and tasks!
Photo flash. There's a landscape
There is a portrait, there is a vernissage.
Lens instead of glasses
Photos will be used instead of words.
Photographer's day today
And we wish you
More creative freedom
Less pain, less emptiness.
You have every little thing
Let it turn into a masterpiece.
And what would you like to live
Only in a chic manner.
Congratulations to the photographers - it's their holiday!
Their work penetrated into every sphere.
After all, photographs are memories for everyone.
They contain our joy, finds, success!
We walk through life with ease,
Sometimes we fly high with them.
We will capture every step, every moment.
Happy may the photographer's face be.
Life gives him space and comfort,
Let him go to the resort this year.
New achievements and victories for him.
He will leave a trace of bright events.
For those who can always stop time at once
And any moment can be easily captured,
We want to wish have a good photo shoot Always,
So that you cope with the task with a bang.
So that cities will be subdued by your lenses,
The power of the waves and the power of the tide, the sky, the stars and the moon,
The silent majesty of the mountains and the mystery of the forests,
And the golden glow of the sun in the foam of the clouds.
The sonorous, bright laughter of a child and silent sadness in the eyes,
The sweet, gentle look of a kitten, the chirping of bright birds in the gardens.
Let your frame be rare, let your photograph be alive,
Let the eye be accurate, accurate, and let the payment be golden!
You create art
It’s easy to select the angle.
Let in your life
Bright happiness lived.
Bright life, as in the photo
We wish from the bottom of our hearts.
There will be all the days gone by
They will be full of joy.
Bright pictures we wish you,
What do we get from you?
Smooth, clear horizons,
Fronts that are not overwhelmed for you.
May they always be happy
Your different clients.
They won’t forget when you’re around
A bright, new photo strip.
I wish your photos
They were beautiful and wonderful:
Things, people and nature -
All the shots are so diverse!
You are a master of the matter, just a pro,
May you always have
Love for the profession is at the core,
After all, beauty attracts you!
Saint Veronica, according to the Bible, gave Jesus a cloth as he went to Calvary so that he could wipe the sweat from his face. The face of Christ is imprinted on this fabric. Almost two millennia later, when photography was invented, the Pope declared this day World Photographer's Day.
During the Middle Ages, almost every church had an image of Veronica with her sudarium (sweatplate). Veronica also took a strong place in the mysteries of the Middle Ages and is still the main figure of the sixth station of the Way of the Cross. Icon of St. Veronica Icon of St. Veronica It is believed that the name Veronica is a corruption of the Latin vera icon (“true image”) - this is how the “plate of Veronica” was called, distinguishing it from other images of Christ. The story of Saint Veronica first appears in the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, dating back to the 4th or 5th century.
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| "View from the workshop window" Joseph Nicéphore Niepce. |
French inventor and Niépce's partner Louis Daguerre (remember daguerreotypes?) took a photograph of a Parisian street in 1838, the work is called "Boulevard du Temple". The street seems deserted because the photo was taken at a 10 minute exposure, people were moving along the street too quickly and could not stay in the photo. But one of the passers-by still stopped to polish his shoes. It remained motionless long enough to be captured on the photographic plate. This is the first ever photograph of a person.
In 1839, American photography pioneer Robert Hinnieser Cornelius took a self-portrait. This photograph became the first portrait and self-portrait in history.
The first person to invent the negative was William Henry Fox Talbot. This event took place in 1839. The inventor called his method of photography calotype, which meant “beauty.” In the same year, Hippolyte Bayard presented the world with his first positive imprint. John Herschel, an English astronomer, physicist, mathematician, chemist, botanist and photographer, called Talbot's invention "photography" and coined the words "negative" and "positive", as well as "Snapshot".
The first color photographs appeared in the middle of the 19th century. To create them, three cameras were used - a light filter (red, green and blue) was installed on each, and then the images were combined. It was long and painstaking work in pursuit of beauty and maximum authenticity. The first color photograph was taken in 1861 by James Maxwell, an English physicist. For the first time, photographs began to be retouched and, at the customer’s request, made “colored,” which was achieved by painting with watercolors, in 1840. This was a terrible luxury at that time.
The appearance of the first plates for color photography dates back to 1904, they were produced by the Lumiere company.
Here is another early color photograph, dated 1872 and taken in the south of France by photographer Louis Duc du Hauron.
The first aerial photography was taken in 1858 by the French cartoonist Gaspard Felix Tournache. He took the camera into the basket hot air balloon and took several photographs of the French village of Petit-Becetre from above. However, time has ruined these photographs. Now the earliest photo taken from the air is a frame from 1860, showing the city of Boston (USA).
The first underwater photographs were taken by William Thomas in 1856. Unfortunately, all footage from that year has been lost. Above is the first published underwater photograph (Louis Boutant, 1890).
The first image from space was taken in New Mexico. On October 24, 1946, a 35mm camera mounted on a V-2 rocket captured the image from 65 miles above the Earth. Nowadays, we are accustomed to colorful NASA photographs and video footage from Earth orbit. And then, in 1946, when the war had just ended, it was an unprecedented miracle to see this.
The basis of the digital camera was invented in 1973. These were CCD matrices, with the help of which it was possible to obtain an image measuring 100x100 pixels.
The first astronomical electron photo was taken using such matrices the following year, 1974.
The history of digital photography begins with the Mavica camera, which was released by Sony in 1981. Mavica is an almost full-fledged DSLR with interchangeable lenses and a resolution of 570x490 pixels. However, then it was considered a “static video camera”, the result of which was not a video stream, but static pictures - individual frames. Officially, the world's first digital camera is considered to be the development of Kodak, or rather Steven Sesson. The camera he invented recorded the image on an audio cassette with magnetic tape. The image recording time from the moment the shutter button was pressed was 22 seconds.
The world's first autofocus SLR was released by Polaroid in 1979, and in 1985 Minolta released a camera that eventually became the standard for SLR cameras (both the sensor and motor were contained in the camera body).
Classification of photographers, or Soap dishes and DSLRs
Cameras are divided into point-and-shoot cameras and DSLRs. It is a fact. Additional divisions are from the evil one and only bring confusion into children's fragile minds.
Soap dishes are pistols. They are convenient to carry in your pocket as if in a holster, quickly grab them and shoot in all directions. Results are not guaranteed. Because either you often miss (with focus, ISO and other garbage, the existence of which you don’t even suspect), or at long distances the “bullet” loses its destructive power (sharpness and detail).
SLR - sniper rifle. You can take good aim and kill the hell out of it. Those. get a picture of such quality that if you squint your eyes to your nose when looking at it, pure 3D comes out. But at the same time, the rate of fire is lost, and the dimensions of the weapon greatly increase.
The soapbox fighter is mobile. Poorly predictable. Hasty and sloppy. He walks down the street, sees a fountain - BANG - 2 frames. There is a monument - bang - 3 frames, there is a dog - BANG - 5 frames. For some particularly hasty amateurs, half of the pictures are photographs of the insides of their own pockets. Or blurred spots of color, well suited for the Luscher test.
A real mirror artist - like Amundsen on his expedition to the South Pole. He walks angrily, sweating like a caravan camel. He carries a one-kilogram camera, a bag with a couple of lenses and a tripod screwed to his back. He saw a fountain, a monument and a dog in the coffin. He doesn't get distracted by little things. If he plans to arrange his vast household, it will be at least for the Cathedral of St. Peter or the Pyramid of Cheops. Like a true sniper, he chooses a place, arranges it, arranging it, setting it up, taking exposure measurements. Makes corrections for the wind, the position of stars and the magnetic field. Then he freezes motionless, waiting for the right light.
Soapy is cheerful, carefree and cheerfully goofy.
The mirrorman is gloomy, concentrated and contemptuous.
The soap maker, with the joy of a neophyte idiot, posts all kinds of photographs on the Internet. “Me and the fountain”, “me and the monument”, “I’m running away from the dog from the previous frame.”
The mirror guy spends half an hour cutting each frame with Photoshop at the level of individual pixels. He pulls out the white and red balances with pliers. Each posted photo must be accompanied by a full size, RAW and instructions on how to view it correctly.
The soap guy stupidly adds dozens of other people's photos.
DSLRs shit until they're blue in the face on forums for any reason (but the Nikon Vs. Cannon topic is especially popular).
The soap man treats his camera lightly. It doesn’t matter that she washes (she’s supposed to), eats batteries like a pig eats acorns, and has a control system more confusing than the Cretan labyrinth with the Minotaur. That in the light she more or less removes everything, in the dark - only the darkness itself. He drops it, gets it wet in the rain and wipes the lens with spit and his fingers.
The mirror maker has a set of filters, a collection of highly specialized rags and brushes, and checks the matrix daily for hot pixels. Any deviation from the norm makes him depressed.
And then there are film-makers – those generally SCARY people. When you meet someone, run and don’t look back!
According to statistics, today only 2 out of 10 photographs taken digital cameras, are printed on paper, but the total is printed digital photos there are more than 65 billion in the world. This means that soon this number will exceed the 66 billion mark, it will exceed the number of photographs in the world printed from film.
- I can disfigure anyone with one movement of my finger!
- Oh, you must be a jiu-jitsu master?
- No, I'm a photographer!
Rules for a cool photographer
1. The first rule of a cool photographer: never show your pictures!
2. The second rule of a cool photographer is don’t show your pictures to anyone! If they still ask you to show it, excuse yourself. Tell us about the terabytes of raw files on your computer, the workload, about copyright and related rights, about contracts with Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, and other glossy magazines and advertising agencies.
3. If you have a blog, from time to time post pictures of recognized photographers in it with moderately laudatory comments like “this is how you should shoot!” Theorize more.
4. As a last resort, post a couple of abstract photographs with the note “well, I’m playing the fool” (or “these are my youthful experiences”). Not more!
5. Register on as many communities, forums and websites dedicated to photography as possible. Speak out often, scold moderately, without fanaticism. Use expressions: “mediocre”, “dull shit”, “the horizon is littered”, “your matrix is dirty”, “withered colors”, “where is the idea?” (option “where is the concept?”) and so on. A real cool photographer will always find something to criticize. Don't praise! Newcomers are bullied until they are completely destroyed.
6. Learn the terminology. The words “exposure correction”, “bracketing”, “crop”, “polarization”, “bokeh” should bounce off your teeth like “daddy-mama”. Use them!
7. Learn the lingo and use it confidently. Call a lens a “lens,” a wide-format lens a “wide,” a flash a “puff,” and an aperture a “hole.” Say it's more convenient.
8. Despise the rules, but hate those who do not respect them.
9. Learn the last names of a couple or three famous photographers and know their statements in detail. Use them when theorizing and criticizing.
10. Install the latest version of Photoshop on your computer. English. Master the “stamp.” Tell everyone that you don’t use Photoshop at all! And blaspheme everyone who uses it.
11. Photo filters are crutches for cripples! A universal lens is only suitable for the armless and legless. A professional uses different lenses for each occasion, and uses his legs and head to zoom in and out of an object!
12. Get a camera. Remember: “Kenon” is cheap and pop. Panasonic, Sony, Olympus and Konica are garbage. As a last resort, take Nikon or Pentax. Better - Leica or Hasselblad. If you don’t have enough money, find a wide-format “Kyiv”. There is no need to load expensive film into it - just carry the camera with you.
13. In general, the more lenses, flashes, filters, exposure meters you have in your bag, the cooler you are!
14. Professionals shoot on film or with very cool digital cameras. If you don’t have money for something like 1D Mark, carry an ancient film camera with you, citing the fact that “digital” is far from “film”. Justify this by incorrect color rendition, low resolution compared to film and the relative youth of the technology.
15. If you still use a digital camera, declare that you ignore the screen, and at the same time the viewfinder with a built-in exposure meter. You set all the settings based on experience and by eye.
16. Find a friend with a photo studio and hang out with him more often.
17. From time to time, disappear for a day or two. Say that there was a big order, I didn’t leave the photo studio. Or that he flew to Kamchatka to photograph geysers on his own National Geographic helicopter.
18. Keep a diploma from some photography school on your desk, but don’t forget to say that you have long outgrown your teachers.
19. Memorize Ken Rockwell's article on photography. Refute it or justify it with examples depending on the situation.
20. Thoroughly study all camera models - up to 40 years inclusive. Regularly read releases of new products and know by heart all the cameras, lenses, and flashes available today.
21. Constantly monitor photo exhibitions. It is not necessary to attend them; just read the reviews.
If you start using these rules regularly, everyone around you will sooner or later recognize you as a cool photographer!
One photographer, being invited to a party, took several of his photographs in order to show them to the guests on occasion.
The hostess, seeing the pictures, exclaimed:
- What amazing photographs! You apparently have a very expensive camera!
The photographer didn’t answer her, but said goodbye at the end of the evening:
- Thank you, dinner was cooked perfectly! You must have very good pots!
Post on one of the forums:
Recently purchased Canon camera 400D. In a short time I have already taken a bunch of photos and now I’m thinking about combining business with pleasure. Namely, part-time work photographing weddings. I am familiar with the practice of photography firsthand - I had decent experience in photographing with Zenit. I'm wondering what is needed for this. The only lens available so far is a kit one, I understand that I need another one, but I can’t handle it now. Is it possible only with whale? Need external flash, for the money I estimate 6-8 thousand, please recommend which one is better to take. I'll buy an additional memory card and battery. What else is needed? A tripod with a “cable” - I don’t know?, in my opinion it’s not necessary to have it.
Answer:
I recently purchased a scalpel from a medical equipment store. In a short time I’ve already torn up a leather sofa and almost killed my dog, and now I’m thinking about combining business with pleasure. Namely, to work as a cardiac surgeon. I am familiar with the practice of surgery firsthand - I had decent experience working with a can opener. I'm wondering what is needed for this. The scalpel is not yet sharpened and there is only one, I understand that another is needed, but now I can’t handle it. Is it possible to perform coronary artery bypass grafting with just one scalpel?
The Photographer's Clueless Dictionary
PHOTO CAMERA - a cell in a pre-trial detention center in which only photographers sit. The most crowded cell, since we now have photographers on every corner.
LENS - the photographer's penis, which they like to measure with. The thicker and longer the lens, the more professional the photographer.
OBJECTIVE REALITY is the world in which a photographer lives, thinking only about his lens and good shots.
BLEND - the foreskin of the photographer's lens.
FRAMEWORK - women who are framed by the photographer. The photographer... does not use these women physiologically, but only photographs them with his large lens.
DIGITAL is the working tool of a modern photographer, into which he screws his lens in order to shoot frames with it.
FILM - a coating that covers an old photographer; frames are glued to the film. For modern photographers, film is no longer in fashion. They are going digital.
FILM DEVELOPMENT - the photographer gathers his colleagues, also photographers, and shows them his film with frames, and they shake their heads with the air of experts and make comments.
DIAPHRAGM is the organ with which the photographer hiccups.
SHUTTER RATE - the photographer's ability to remain calm and not screw up the shots.
SHARPNESS - the photographer’s rudeness towards others.
FLASH is an unexpected aggressive emotion during which the photographer usually throws tripods at people.
A TRIPOD is a stick on which a drunk photographer places his working tool when his hands can no longer hold it.
REMOVE WITH YOUR HANDS - lowering your pants, which the drunk photographer had already worn too much during the flash.
Wiggle - the movement of hair on the photographer's ass when he sees a good shot.
FOCUS is a photographer's trick when he takes pictures without a lens or flash.
PHOTO MODEL - toy camera made of wood on which little photographers practice.
MIRROR is a disease of fat photographers.
PHOTO SOAP Dish - a container from which photographers drink vodka.
A PHOTO ARTIST is a photographer who does not know how to take pictures and therefore draws photographs in Photoshop.
A PHOTOGRAPHER is a pervert who has sex with cameras.
GET GOOD - get drunk with vodka (photographic)
ANGLE - the photographer's view of the world from a crooked position.
Nude - the photographer's exclamation at the sight of small tits. "Nude, where are the tits?"
NIKON is the photo-patriarch who introduced a schism into the photographic church, dividing photographers into two parts: Nikonists and canonists.
CANON is the true law, which is followed by photographers who did not follow Patriarch Nikon.
Watering can is what nonconformist photographers who don’t give a damn about Nikon and the canons use to water the flowers in the garden.
PHOTO SESSION is a test week for photographers, when they are given shots.
FISH EYE - the eye of a very drunk photographer.
RED EYE EFFECT - a photographer’s morning hangover after photo shoots, accompanied by a swollen face and a terrible dry patch.
HORIZON - a situation where a light bulb sets an umbrella on fire.
THE HORIZON IS OVERLOADED is the only correct comment to any photo. It's drunken colleagues of photographers who can't look at the world directly after photo sessions with good shots.
EXPOSURE is a pose that the model unexpectedly takes because the photographer screwed up the shutter speed and gave free rein to his lens.
BACKGROUND - healthy rags in the background that photographers like to wipe their lenses on after photo sessions.
BACKGROUND BLAMED - backgrounds stained with something after exposures.
LIGHT FILTER - model Svetlana, who gives only to some photographers after shooting, but does not give to others.
OVEREXPOSE - keep the lens in the frame for so long that children may appear.
ENLARGEMENT - a vacuum pump for enlarging the lens.
DEVELOPER is a photographer who always develops good shots.
FIXER - superglue that the photographer uses to glue frames to the backgrounds so that they do not run away.
PHOTOGRAPHING SHIT - photographing exclusively naked male genitals.
GLAMOR PHOTOGRAPHER - a man who is too well dressed to take pictures of poop.
WHITE BALANCE - the ratio of the amount of cocaine in the left and right nostrils of a glamor photographer.
FOCUS - the photographer's excitement at the sight of an undressed woman.
ZOOM - magnifies the lens at the moment of focusing.
FOCAL LENGTH - the distance that an average photographer can cover in one second towards an undressed woman, while pulling out the lens and grabbing her, the woman, by the breast
Dies very professional photographer. His right hand rests on his favorite camera - Canon, lying on a blanket, all the walls are covered with photographs with the captions “My cat”, “My dog”, “My mother-in-law”, “My sunrises and sunsets”, etc. Suddenly he feels that someone is standing by the bed: “Who are you?” - Your death!
- My?! Smile!
Photographer Sidorov abandoned the Western habit of asking those photographed to say "chi-i-i-iz." From his own experience, he knows that a smile turns out much more natural if the photographed person says “he-e-er to you.”
Professional and amateur photographers revere their patron Saint Veronica. Her actions are associated with the appearance of the miraculous face of Jesus on the canvas.
Therefore, on the basis of a papal decree, Saint Veronica, after the invention of photographic art, was ranked as the patroness of photographers and photography.
Saint Veronica's Day: legends and tales
When Jesus Christ, betrayed by one of his disciples and condemned to torture and death, was heading to Calvary with his Cross prepared for crucifixion, a crowd of curious and sympathizers surrounded the procession.
Among the stream of people accompanying the Savior was Veronica. Under the weight of the burden, Christ fell to his knee. At the same time kind woman ran up to Jesus to give Him water to drink. So that the exhausted Christ could wipe off his sweat, she handed Him her cloth.
Already at home, Veronica discovered an inexplicable miracle. The cloth with which Jesus wiped the sweat from His face was imprinted with His image.
Later, the plate belonging to Saint Veronica ends up in Rome, where it began to be called the Image Not Made by Hands.
Despite the critical and controversial statements of the church and researchers regarding the authenticity of the legend, Saint Veronica became quite popular among the common people.
The first mentions of Veronica appear in the 4th-5th century and are associated with the apocryphal acts of Pilate. There are many legends about the appearance of the Icon Not Made by Hands, and in all the stories there is a woman named Veronica.
The name Veronica is also associated with the image of Jesus. The name Vera ikon is translated as “authentic image” and means an icon on wood in a fabric frame with the face of the Savior.
The consonance of the name with the name of the saint gave rise to long-term disagreements about the origin. It was associated either with the name of a woman or with the name of an icon until the 14th century.
But in the Middle Ages, an icon depicting Saint Veronica holding her unique cloth in her hands was in almost every church.
Already today, more thorough research has begun. A doctor from Prague managed, by superimposing photographs, to prove the connection between the imprint on Veronica’s board and the image on the Shroud of Turin.
In addition, when superimposed, both photographs had the same proportions and outlines. They complemented each other, creating an unusual porter filled with life.
Veronica is considered the patroness of photographs, as she was the first owner of a miraculous print. Therefore, all photographers celebrate their professional holiday on the day of veneration of Saint Veronica.
Photographer's Day July 12: history of art development
The appearance of the first photograph dates back to June 19, 1822, when the French scientist Joseph Niepce managed to capture an image using light. To create the photo, many different materials were tried, but the image was created using varnish that was dissolved in lavender oil.
The first photograph was called “View from the Window”, and the shooting duration was 8 hours.
The patent for the prints was acquired by the French government in 1839. And on August 19, the prototype of the photograph becomes available to the masses. This day is considered worldwide as World Photographer's Day.
Three cameras were used to take color photographs in the 19th century.
Each had its own filter, giving a red, green and blue image.
When connecting the prints we got color photo.
Contemporary photography It is done using completely different technologies. The activity has become a favorite hobby for many, and for some, a profession.
The photographers themselves honor the memory of their patroness and do not forget to celebrate Photographer’s Day and July 12th. Photographers celebrate the day on July 12, which corresponds to the old style calendar.
The choice of date is also associated with the birthday of George Eastman (July 12, 1854), the founder of the Kodak company, who made photography accessible to many.
Profession photographer - on weekdays as on a holiday
The profession of a photographer is one of the most interesting. A person who is interested in photography finds inspiration in the air and underground, in water and on land. These are not just enthusiastic people. These are real workers who dream in their hearts of growing into real artists.
Skillful photographs reflect not just an imprint of reality, but mood, character, and emotional experiences.
It is photographers who allow us to admire the beauty of nature, make us experience captured tragedies and be touched by photographs of children and animals.
They tell us about world events, fashion trends, new discoveries.
Photographers are the first to go to the scene of various incidents.
Risking their lives, they film moments of disasters, wars, and tragedies.
Thanks to photography, a person has the opportunity to preserve memories dear to his heart and, after many years, look back on the brightest moments of his life.
A real photographer, for the sake of a unique photograph, does not stop at either physical or material difficulties. And their unique works amaze with their soulfulness, sharpness of perception and realism.
Saint Veronica, the memory of which is associated with the miraculous image of the suffering Savior, became one of the most popular national saints, despite the fact that some church authorities and critical researchers spoke out against the historical authenticity of Veronica and her legend.
Let's try to restore the events. Betrayed and condemned to martyrdom, Jesus Christ walked to Mount Calvary, carrying His cross to be crucified. The procession was surrounded by a crowd accompanying the Savior to His suffering on the cross. Veronica merged with the human sea and followed Christ.
Exhausted, Jesus fell under the weight of the cross, and Veronica, taking pity on Him, ran up to Him, gave Him water to drink and gave Him her robe to wipe the sweat from his face. Returning home, Veronica discovered that the holy face of the Savior was imprinted on the fabric. This cloth of Saint Veronica eventually found its way to Rome and became known here under the name of the Icon Not Made by Hands...
In the Middle Ages, almost every church had an image of Veronica with her sir(sweat fee). Veronica also took a strong place in the mysteries of the Middle Ages and is still the main figure of the sixth station of the Way of the Cross.
It is believed that the name Veronica is a corruption of the Latin vera icon(“genuine image”) - this is what they called the “Veronica plate”, distinguishing it from other images of Christ. The story of Saint Veronica first appears in the apocryphal Acts of Pilate, dating back to the 4th or 5th century.
The image and deeds of Saint Veronica have led to her being revered as the patroness of photographers and photography. Therefore, amateurs and photography professionals celebrate this day as photographer’s day.
In honor of our holiday, I offer you a selection of “Photographers in Sculpture”!
I sincerely congratulate everyone on our professional holiday!
1. Monument to the photographer in St. Petersburg.
For several years now, passers-by on Malaya Sadovaya have been “caught” through the lens of a bronze camera by a short man with an umbrella and a cute bulldog. Crowds of curious people gather daily at the monument to Karl Bulla. The townspeople stroke the dog, study the ancient apparatus, and even pat the master himself on the shoulder: they stand opposite, laugh, and wait for “the bird to fly out.” The photographer smiles sadly, looking at them - the same way, probably, as his famous prototype smiled, preparing to give eternity another moment from the life of old, pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg.
Today, the premises of Bull's atelier still house a photography studio, the entrance to which is from Nevsky Prospekt. And at the window of the restaurant on the corner there remained a bronze figure, frozen in silent anticipation of the right moment, “the right light and position,” counting down the seconds until the blinding flash. A flash that separates vanity from beauty.
2. Sculpture "Unknown photographer with a Kodak camera"
Located near the Arch Barracks in St George's Terrace, Perth, created by local sculptors Ann Neil and Greg James
3. Monument to the photographer in Vancouver
4. Monument to the photographer in Krasnoyarsk
The bronze photographer appeared on Mira Avenue on September 3, 2003. Krasnoyarsk residents immediately liked the monument.
True, the combination of an old camera and completely modern clothes still surprises many passers-by. The author of the work, Andrei Kiyanitsyn, explains that, according to the plan, such a synthesis clearly conveys the connection of times. After all, the ancient invention has not sunk into oblivion, but has only been modified and still serves people. Since the opening of the monument and until now, townspeople have been discussing whether the photographer is standing correctly. According to some, it should be turned 180 degrees and look through the lens at the road. There is also a version that the photographer was created specifically so that he would “photograph” the artist Pozdeev. However, all these speculations are groundless. The sculpture was made by order of the Kodak salon: to decorate the adjacent area and to attract customers. The idea is so original advertising belongs to the architect Mikhail Merkulov. At one time, there were detractors who accused the sculptor of almost plagiarism. Allegedly, the Krasnoyarsk “frame master” was literally copied from St. Petersburg. In fact, in the Northern capital on Malaya Sadovaya in 2001 a monument was erected to a real person named Karl Bulla (1853-1929). The famous photographer of the beginning of the last century is depicted with a dog and an umbrella, his clothes correspond to the style of a bygone era, and he looks at those passing by with some slight sadness. The photographer from the capital of Krasnoyarsk is a collective image, so he does not have a face, or rather, he is not visible from behind the camera. The only similarity between monuments to people of the same profession is the camera. Moreover, perhaps, the fact that both sculptures were made in life-size human size. By the way, Andrei Kiyanitsyn revealed one secret to Press Line. Since he had to sculpt not some specific person, he blinded the photographer while looking at himself in the mirror. By the way, after the opening of the monument, the chairman of the Krasnoyarsk branch of the Union of Artists of Russia, Sergei Anufriev, said that the need to install such a monument has been long overdue, since the photographic art of our region is known not only in Siberia, but also far beyond its borders. It is interesting that immediately after its appearance and still to this day, the frail bronze figurine on Mira is the subject of controversy: “Are such structures necessary at all?” Meanwhile, street polls organized by the Press-Line.ru news agency prove that Krasnoyarsk residents are not at all against seeing bronze sculptures on the city streets. And not only pedestals in honor of leaders and writers, but also those that are designed, simply, to lift your spirits. This is probably why townspeople quite often linger at the Kodak, study the ancient device, stand opposite it, smile and wait for the “bird to fly out.”
5. Monument to the cat and photographer in Belarus, the city of Baranovichi. Installed at the entrance to the photo studio.
6. Monument to the photographer, Nizhny Novgorod
7. Monument to the photographer, Omsk
8. Monument to the photographer. Permian
Opposite the monument “Permyak - Salty Ears” there is a monument to a photographer whose camera is aimed at a frame with ears that anyone can try on.
9. The sculpture “Photographer” at the exhibition “Masterpieces of World Art. Paris School." Kharkiv
10. Monument to the photographer. Baden. Austria
11. Monument to the photographer. Abakan
12. Monument to the photographer. Dusseldorf. Germany
13. Monument to the paparazzi. Bratislava. Slovakia
14. Monument to the legendary Latvian photographer Filip Halsman
Bronze - 2m, Riga, Latvia 2011
May 2 in Riga, near the Museum Decorative arts and design, opposite the home of Philip Halsman, st. Calcu 6, a monument to the great photographer Philippe Halsman was unveiled. The citizen of Latvia became the one through whose lens we know Marilyn Monroe and Churchill, Salvador Dali and Einstein. Because of the war, he was forced to emigrate to the USA. And as a result, he glorified Latvia with his creativity.
In the monument to Halsman, Gregory used a simple idea: in the 20th century, photographers covered themselves with a canvas while working, and that moment, when he raised the canvas, he seemed to gain wings. There is a feeling of flight. Hence this unexpected decision. When developing photographs in the developer, individual parts of the images first appear - there is a head, a frame, a canvas, like the wings of a bird, a camera... The rest did not develop. And a realistic abstraction arises, which the artist embodied.
July, 12
Saint Veronica's Day (according to the old calendar)*
Saint Veronica is the woman who gave Jesus a cloth to wipe the sweat from his face as he went to Calvary. The face of the Savior remained imprinted on the fabric. After the invention of photography, St. Veronica was declared the patron saint of photography and photographers by papal decree.
From the 4th century in the west there is a legend about Veronica, which grew widely until the late Middle Ages. One of the weeping women (Luke 23:27) gives Christ a cloth (sudarium) during his way of the cross so that he can wipe his face with it. Jesus presses it to his face and the imprint of his face remains on it. Soon this woman began to be identified with the woman who suffered from bleeding or with Martha of Bethany. From about the 6th century. In Upper Italy and Southern France, the story spreads in many versions that the seriously ill Emperor Tiberius heard about Jesus in Palestine and sent a messenger to invite Him. When he learns that Jesus was crucified, he angrily deposes and arrests Pilate. After this, he calls on a woman who suffered from hemorrhage, who depicted Jesus on a cloth during his lifetime. When looking at the image, the emperor is healed and baptized.
Later they began to say that the woman remained in Rome and bequeathed the card with the image to St. Clement before her death. Even later, it is reported that the woman allegedly went to Jesus with a handkerchief in order to depict him on it. And Jesus met her on the way and imprinted his face on the board. According to another version, Luke tried to draw Jesus three times in vain. Then Jesus himself miraculously imprinted his face, etc.
The legend of Veronica originates from the Syrian legend of Abgar from the beginning of the 4th century. The original version is reported by Eusebius c. 300: King Abgar of Edessa (Abgar Ukkama, 4 BC to 7 AD or from 13 AD to 50 AD; Edessa, present-day Urfa, southeastern Turkey) was terminally ill and sends a messenger Hannan (Ananias) with his message to Jesus, in which he asks him for healing and invites him to come to Edessa, thus avoiding persecution by the Jews. Jesus answers him that he cannot come to him, since what is destined for him must take place in Jerusalem, but that after his death he will send his apostle to him. After the Ascension of Christ, the Apostle Thomas sends Addai (Thaddeus), one of the 70 apostles, who heals Abgar with the laying on of hands and then preaches throughout the country. Soon the legend is supplemented by a new motive: Jesus, along with a reply letter, sends his image, which he printed by pressing his face to the board. When looking at him, Abgar is healed.
Like the legend of Veronica, the legend of Abgar was subsequently enriched with numerous variants. From about the 6th century. it is no longer Abgar himself, but his (imaginary) daughter Veronica who takes the image for her father. The so-called Edessa image: in 544, an image of Christ was discovered on the city wall of Edessa above the city gates, which soon began to enjoy great veneration. It was considered an Acheiropoieton (not a human-made river). Two copies were made from this image, which subsequently changed owners many times and presumably perished during the era of iconoclasm (730-843).
The Byzantine Emperor Tomanos I Lakapenos in 944 ordered the original to be transferred to Constantinople. The day of this transfer is still celebrated by the Byzantines on August 16. The knights of the fourth crusading campaign stole it along with many other relics and took it with them to Europe. The churches of St. Sylvester in Capite in Rome, St.-Chapelle in Paris (it came there as a gift from Baldwin to Louis IX, in 1217) and Genoa (as if it were a gift from the Byzantine emperor, in the 14th century) claim ownership of this image. .).
The Edessa image is significant due to the fact that it represents the original source type for all images of Christ in the East, down to the present day. Claims about the possession of an “authentic” image of Christ appeared very early on. Irenaeus of Lyons reports before 200 that the adherents of Carpocrates (a Gnostic sect) allegedly possess such an “authentic” image. It was created as if from an ancient image that Pilate ordered to be painted from Jesus. It is striking that also in Italy, already from the 4th century. There are images of Christ that are similar to each other in expression and are clearly influenced by the Byzantine original type, for example, in the catacomb of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus in Rome (c. 400), on the portal of St. Sabina in Rome (beginning of the 5th century), on the mosaic in Saint Appolinare in Ravenna (c. 500), on the apse mosaic in the church of St. Cosmas and Damian in Rome (VI century).
In the oratorio of St. Mary ad Praesepem has been venerated in Rome since at least the 8th century. one image of Christ. It was called Vultus effigeis (image of a face) or Sudarium (plate, veil, handkerchief for wiping sweat). Inscription from the 12th century. calls it "Vera ikon" (true image), from which the popular name Veronyca comes. There is probably a sound similarity here with the above-mentioned Beronike. This is an image on a board, in a typically Byzantine manner (Serbia), framed by a cloth depicting the folds of a board; now it has changed beyond recognition, but there are numerous early copies of it, one of which is kept in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. "Veronica", up to the 13th century. was either the name of the image or the name of the legendary woman. Since the 14th century. The latter prevailed. Along with this, there are numerous other “images of Veronica”, which are passed off either as the “original” or as a copy.
During the Middle Ages, almost every church had an image of Veronica with her sudarium (sweatplate). Also in the mysteries of the Middle Ages, Veronica took a strong place and is still the main figure of the sixth station of the Way of the Cross.
Already early on, church authorities, and later critical studies, spoke out against the historical authenticity of Veronica and her legend. Nevertheless, she became one of the most popular folk saints, whose day has been celebrated on February 4 since the 15th century (absent in the Roman Martyrology).
An unexpected discovery was made in 1950 by Prague doctor R.W. Hynek. He for a long time suggested a causal connection between ancient images of Veronica and Byzantine icons of Christ with a face on the Shroud of Turin. By photographically superimposing copies of the Turin face and the Roman copy, he established an exact match of all contours and proportions, including larger wounds and traces of blood on the face. Both images complement each other and create a very plastic, full of life portrait.
Thus, evidence is given that the Shroud of Turin is directly or indirectly the original type, the original example of all Western and Eastern images of Christ. The Shroud of Turin is considered to be the cloth in which the body of Christ was wrapped in the grave. Through the imprint of the corpse, she demonstrates with stunning realism all the details of his suffering. It was located in the first centuries in Jerusalem and other places in Palestine; in the 8th century through Asia Minor came to Constantinople, from where its crusaders of the fourth crusade dragged to Europe. A little later it appeared in Besançon, where it remained until 1349. From 1353 to 1418 it was in the possession of the founder of the monastery LereV near Troyes, from 1418 to 1578 in the possession of Messrs. Chambery. In 1578, she was carried across the Alps to Turin, meeting the wishes of the elder cardinal Charles Barromeus, who wanted to bow to her. Scientific research The Shroud of Turin in the modern sense began in 1931 and since 1973 is considered largely completed.
The authenticity of this relic is now recognized everywhere.
* * It was decided to celebrate Photographer’s Day on July 12, and not on the 25th, also because George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, who made “photography accessible to everyone,” was born on July 12, 1854.
