100 yıllık fotoğraf tarihi

1914 yılında ilk filmli kamerasını üreten Leica o günden sonra fotoğraf ile ilgilenen en üst düzey kişilerin kullandığı markalardan biri oldu.

Dünyaca ünlü fotoğraf makinesi üretici Leica hazırladığı sergide yüz yıllık fotoğraf tarihini meraklılarına sundu.

Bir çok savaş muhabiri dünya yaşanan dehşeti sessizlik ve hafifliği dolayısıyla tercih ettikleri Leica ile duyurdu.

İşte Leica sergisinden dünyaya ışık tutan fotoğraflar:

New York – Ernst Leitz II, 1914

Flood in Wetzlar – Oskar Barnack, 1920

Self-portrait in mirrors – Ilse Bing, 1931

Girl with Leica – Alexander Rodchenko, 1934

Oskar Barnack at his workplace – Julius Huisgen, 1934

Death of a Loyalist Soldier – Robert Capa, 1936

LZ 129 “Hindenburg” at its mooring mast at Rhine-Main airport – Dr. Paul Wolff and Alfred Tritschler, 1936

At the Marne – Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1938

V-J Day – Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945

The flag of victory – Yevgeny Khaldei, 1945

Guardia Civil – W. Eugene Smith, 1950

Self-portrait – UMBO (aka Otto Umbehr), 1952

Le Peintre de la Tour Eiffel – Marc Riboud, 1953

London – Inge Morath, 1953

New York – Louis Stettner, 1954

James Dean on Times Square – Dennis Stock, 1955

Regular guest at the Café Hawelka, Vienna – Franz Hubmann, 1956–57

The dwarf – Bruce Davidson, 1958

The stolen sword – Robert Lebeck, 1960

Che Guevara – Alberto Korda, 1960

Wild horses in Kenya – Professor Ulrich Mack, 1964

Muhammad Ali – Thomas Hoepker, 1966

Man with bandage – Fred Herzog, 1968

New York City – Elliott Erwitt, 1974

San Cristobál – René Burri, 1976

Swimming pool designed by Alain Capeilières – Martine Franck, 1976

England – Gianni Berengo Gardin, 1977

Waterloo (from the “Roots” cycle) – Harry Gruyaert, 1981

From the “Feine Leute” cycle – Herlinde Koelbl, 1985

Under a grudging sun – Alex Webb, 1986–1988

Perfect peace – Kai Wiedenhöfer, 1994

Sidewalk – Jeff Mermelstein, 1995

No title (from the “Go” cycle) – Bruce Gilden, 2000

Hollywood Beach (from the “American Colors” cycle) – Constantine Manos, 2006

Vertigo (from the “Silenzio!” cycle) – François Fontaine, 2012 (Courtesy A. Galerie, Paris)