“War photography is a male domain. Contrary to popular belief, female photographers in war zones have a long history,” explains Felix Kramer in the illustrated book. Women war photographers (Prestel, 2019). “Just like their male counterparts, they have documented crises around the world and decisively shaped our war picture.
There were many women in the past who reported from the front as boldly and fearlessly as their male counterparts. Here we present ten famous war photographers in the history of photography:
Gerda Taro
German photographer Gerda Taro, along with her friend and colleague Robert Capa, documented the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, becoming the first female photojournalist on the battlefield. A significant portion of what Robert Caper thought was an early work was actually done by Tarot. Unfortunately he died too early. He was driven by a tank in 1937 while trying to escape from a rival territory west of Madrid.
Lee Miller
Lee Miller left her modeling career in 1929 and moved to Paris, where she worked with artist and photographer Man Ray. After living in Paris, New York, and Egypt, he moved to London shortly before World War II began and took up position as a freelance photographer. Enjoy In 1944, he was recognized as a reporter for the U.S. Army, and photographer David E. Go to the European war front with Sherman. He is probably the only photojournalist reporting the war there. Miller’s documents show, among other things, the use of the first napalm bomb in the release of St. Malo. He photographed the advance of the American army in Germany and the liberated Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. He then traveled to Eastern Europe, documenting infant mortality in Vienna, rural life in post-war Hungary, and finally the depressing scene of the execution of Prime Minister Lazlo Bardosi. After the war, he moved away from photojournalism.
The documentary “Lee Miller – Supermodel and War Photographer” is available at the Art Media Library until May 20.
Margaret Bork-White
In 1927, Margaret Bork-White opened a photo studio in Cleveland. Publisher of his industrial photography Fate Concentrate on their work. He hired him and sent him to the Soviet Union in 1930, where he was the first foreign photographer to photograph Soviet art. In 1934, he photographed for Borke-White Fate Humanitarian aspects related to the Dust Bowl and the global economic crisis. In the years that followed, and during World War II, Barke-White produced multiple photo reports on the instability in Europe. Photojournalist was the only Western photographer to witness the German invasion of Moscow in 1941 and the first woman to be with the crew at Luftwaffe during the 1942 bombing. He traveled through Germany with the U.S. military in 1945 when they liberated several concentration camps. In the years that followed, he photographed important international events, such as Gandhi’s struggle for Indian independence, the South African riots, and the Korean War. Margaret Bork-White’s photojournalism has demonstrated a unique ability to express the intensity of major world events while respecting formal relationships and aesthetic considerations.
Anja Needringhouse
Her picture of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 gave Anja Niedringhaus the first female permanent job at the European Press Photo Agency. After two years as an agency photographer, he was pressured to take pictures of the Yugoslav wars. There he was saved from death for a short time. During his first mission to Sarajevo, he was shot and wounded by Nidringhaus snipers. He was only wearing a bulletproof vest because he was alive. He always seemed to be in danger: in 1998 he was hit by a champagne in Kosovo. A year later, at a border crossing between Albania and Kosovo, a group of journalists were mistakenly bombed by a NATO plane.
If I don’t take pictures, it won’t be known.
Anja Needringhouse
In 2001, Anja Niedringhaus photographed the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York. Shortly afterwards, he worked for the first time in Afghanistan, where he spent three months reporting on the overthrow of the extremist Islamic Taliban in Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul.
You know your picture without even knowing it. They appeared on the front pages of newspapers all over the world. He also took pictures with sympathy and respect for the victims Abu Gharayb Or during the attack on the headquarters of the International Red Cross in Baghdad. He was interested in what war did for the people: the difficult daily life of the population and the daily life of children in the midst of this catastrophe. Of all the countries where he has spoken of the plight of the people for decades, Afghanistan has been the closest to his heart. He was shot dead by a police officer on April 4, 2014, during an assignment there.
Caroline Cole
Caroline Cole has been reporting for the Los Angeles Times since 1994. His work in the Liberian Civil War won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. His skills as a real observer are particularly evident there; Even close-ups of Liberian mass graves are not visible. He lives mostly in respectable, medium distances. In addition to Liberia, Cole worked as a photographer during the Kosovo war and in Afghanistan. He has twice won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for War Photography. Once for his work in Iraq and Liberia, and again for pictures of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. In 2010, Cole reported after the Haiti earthquake. Cole was another Pulitzer Prize finalist for memorable images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico the same year. He spent more than 85 days in the Gulf of Mexico photographing the worst environmental catastrophe in history. Cole was a six-time Pulitzer finalist.
Lance Adario
Lynsey Addario started working as a professional photographer in 1996 without any previous photography training. In 2000, Addario visited Afghanistan for the first time to document the lives and oppression of women under the Taliban. Prior to September 11, 2001, he had made three more trips to the country under Taliban rule. Over the past 15 years, Adario has covered every major conflict and humanitarian crisis of his generation, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Darfur, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, South Sudan, Somalia and Congo. Adario has received numerous international awards throughout his career. In 2015, American Photo Magazine named Linsey one of the five most influential photographers of the last 25 years, “to change the way we look at world conflict.”
The photojournalist is currently in Ukraine, documenting the Russian invasion of the country.
Alexandra Bolat
Alexandra Bolat originally studied graphics and art history. In 1989, he followed in the footsteps of his father, photographer Pierre Bolat, who worked for the magazine for 25 years. Life Worked. In 2001 he was a co-founder of the agency, which has already become world famous vii. His pictures and reports have been published in numerous international newspapers. Baulat reported on conflicts and social problems. Among other things, he documented the war in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1999. His pictures tell us about the fall of the Taliban, the Iraqi people who suffered under sanctions in the 1990s, and the 2003 Baghdad attacks. But he also photographed Yasser Arafat’s family life and the last Yves St. Laurent show in 2001.
Alexandra Bolat has created the most thoughtful, purposeful and provocative message about the victims of conflict and injustice in modern times. He died in 2007 after a brain haemorrhage.
Heidi Levine
Throughout his career as a photojournalist, Heidi Levine has covered crises in the Middle East. In addition to the revolutions in Egypt and Libya, the Syrian crisis, and the wars between Israel and Lebanon, he has documented numerous conflicts in the Gaza Strip. He gave insights into what was happening in front of him and informed the people behind the scenes. His pictures, often cover stories, have been published in numerous international publications. He was with U.S. troops in Iraq, documenting flights of Iraqi and Syrian refugees from their war-torn country, and reported on the situation on the Greek island of Lesbos, the epicenter of the largest wave of refugees in modern times. Levin is the first recipient of the Anja Neederinghouse Award for Courage in Photojournalism.
Stephanie Sinclair
Stephanie Sinclair focuses on sensitive human rights issues, such as child marriage and suicide. Based on her travels in Central and Near East and South Asia, she has dedicated herself to young women victims of violence who have been victims of genital mutilation, acid attacks or forced marriages for more than 15 years. He said that for the ongoing visualization of the suffering of young women and girls who are victims of male violence. The Erich Salomon Prize is one of the largest awards for photography in Germany
Related to her photo series “Too Young to Wade”, Sinclair founded the organization of the same name, which contributes to the self-empowerment of girls and women through scholarships, photo courses and workshops. Sinclair’s photo report has won three World Press Photo Awards and the Anja Knittinghaus Award for Courage in Photojournalism.
Susan Michelas
After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in visual education and working on strippers’ working conditions in New England, Meslas joined Magnum Photo Agency in 1976 and has been a freelance photographer ever since. From 1978 to 1982, he documented the Sandinista uprising against then-President Anastasio Somoza Debile. Some of their recordings, above all, became “Molotov Man” icons and shaped the reception of the Latin American Revolution in the Western world. In Kurdistan, he documented the Kurdish genocide in northern Iraq in 1988 by Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime. The result is a repository that preserves the cultural memory of the people and the diverse history of the Kurdish expatriates. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous museums and solo exhibitions. Susan Michelas has received the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the Hasselblad Foundation Award, and the Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Award. Mesellas has been president of the Magnum Foundation since its inception in 2007.
C / O Berlin showing a preview of Missile’s work from 30 April