There is such a misconception that life used to be safer and more peaceful. Of course, this is just a delusion. Each historical period boasts a whole host of strange social habits, traditions, and beliefs. Some of them are really useful by the standards of that time, but for us they may still seem like absolute wildness.
In our selection of 26 of the craziest photos of the strangeness of the past.

Patricia O'Keefe, a young bodybuilder weighing 30 kilograms, carries a 90-kilogram man on his back. 1940 year.

In 1973, driving was banned in Amsterdam due to the fuel crisis. But a solution was found.

In 1939, in the USA, flour mills began to supply flour in colorful sacks. This was done so that after the poor people could sew themselves clothes from sackcloth.

The photo shows a two-hundred-kilogram perch and fisherman Edward Llewellyn, who single-handedly managed to catch this monster. By the way, his record has not been broken to this day.

In 1938, schoolteacher Helen Hulick was sentenced to 5 days in prison for showing up to a trial wearing trousers. This kind was considered as contempt of the court.

German soldiers photograph a dog in 1940.

1969 Niagara Falls temporarily stopped for "restoration work".

Between 1939 and 1945, British sappers often found these "mini-tanks". They were used by German soldiers to blow up full-size military vehicles from below.

US President Lyndon Johnson loved to impress his guests and ride them in an amphibious car on the lake.

Nothing unusual. Members of the Ku Klux Klan organization ride a Ferris wheel. 1925 year.

An elephant helps load food onto an American plane in 1945.

During the filming of Dr. No, Sean Connery autographed a coconut for a little Jamaican fan. ! 962 year.

This is how a system of 5000 looked like in 1890 telephone lines in Stockholm.

Do you want to learn how to swim, but far from water? The solution was invented back in 1920.

Foolish photographs with animals began to be taken back in 1875.

Field, Friday, 1910 (joke - just 1910).

The period from 1941 to 1945.

In 1930, ponies were for girls and weaklings. And all real men rode exclusively on boars.

Macy often hired detectives to prevent theft. In 1948, all the "dummy" workers took a group photo, but did not reveal their identity.

Chariots are cool. Motorcycles are cool too. The South Wales Police decided to combine all this coolness in one vehicle.

The most beautiful legs in 1930 were chosen in this way.

1950, a Russian tanker feeds polar bears.

Ann Hodges and her doctor, Moody Jacobs, show the press a bruise on Anne's body, left by a fragment of a meteorite that fell in 1945.

Horrors of war. The soldiers use gas masks to peel onions.

Here are the winners of the Miss Perfect Posture competition at a chiropractor convention in 1956.

Testing a football helmet in 1912

These rare historical photographs can be viewed for a long time and with a breath. We have collected only such frames for you. Enjoy!
25 photographs of the past, where every frame has a whole life, destiny and its own unique story.

(25 photos total)

1. Children play with wads of money during hyperinflation. Germany, 1922.

2. Nazi parade in Bückeburg, 1934.

3. Nazis agitating people to join the boycott of Jewish shops, 1933.

4. A Jewish woman in Austria sits on a bench with the inscription "for Jews only."

5. SS soldiers take an oath of allegiance in Munich, 1938.

6. Applause and ovation to Hitler after the successful annexation of Austria, 1938.

7. Einstein on the beach.

8. Frozen Soviet soldier, set in a standing position by Finnish fighters as psychological pressure.

9. Dossier of the tsarist secret police on Joseph Stalin, 1911.

10. Joseph Stalin (right) and his double Felix Dudaev.

11. Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili was captured by the Germans in 1941. Later he was killed in a prison camp.

12. A German soldier shares food with a Russian woman with a child.

13. A soldier lights up with a flamethrower.

14. A Soviet soldier accompanies a German prisoner of war after the victory in the battle for Stalingrad.

15. 57,000 German prisoners of war march to Moscow after the defeat in Belarus, 1944.

16. German prisoners of war, literally packed in a cramped corral of a prisoner of war camp.

17. Simone Segouin, 18-year-old French resistance fighter, 1944.

19. Joseph Goebbels shakes hands with a very young soldier, 1945.

20. The reaction of German soldiers to photographs from concentration camps.

This collection contains rare and unique historical photographs that capture significant events in history, outstanding personalities and moments from their lives, as well as other interesting shots. This fascinating collection of images will give you a fresh perspective on some of the facts. The photo below shows Charles Godefroy's flight through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. He drove his Nieuport 11 through the arch on August 7, 1919.

2. Construction of the city of Brasilia, which later became the capital of Brazil. 1960:

3. Construction of the Eiffel Tower in July 1888:

4. Boeing B-29 Superfortress called "Enola Gay" was the same bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. This was the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon:

5. The famous cover of The Beatles Abbey Road album, do you know? Only unlike original cover, in this photo they go in the opposite direction:

6. Che Guevarra and Fidel Castro:

7. The Albert Einstein certificate, which he received at the age of 17, his grades are rather mediocre, on a scale of 1 to 6:

8. Filming the legendary movie "Star Wars" inside spaceship Millenium Falcon:

9. Built in the USA, the ENIAC complex became the first computer in the history of mankind. It was capable of performing complex calculations and operations thousands of times faster than any other machine before:

10. Unbroken seal on the tomb of Tutankhamun:

11. The first Google team in 1999:

12. The first Wal-Mart was opened in 1962:

13. In 1948, one of the first McDonald's restaurants opens:

15. Henry Ford (founder of Ford Motor Co.), Thomas Edison (inventor of the phonograph, camera and light bulb), Warren G. Harding (29th President of the United States) and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.) rest together:

16. A Cessna 172 piloted by Matthias Rust illegally landed on Red Square on May 28, 1987. A German amateur pilot flew from Finland to Moscow (being tracked by Soviet air defense and Soviet jet fighters who never received a decree to shoot him down):

17. One of the first photographs taken in Hitler's bunker (Führerbunker) in 1945 by Allied soldiers:

18. Madonna, Sting and Tupac Shakur:

19. Quagga is an extinct subspecies of zebra. The only Quagga to be photographed alive at the Zoological Society of London Zoo in Reagent Park in 1870:

21. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Communicate, 1991:

22. Elvis Presley, King of Rock and Roll while serving in the US Army:

In continuation, visit also a selection of the most famous photographs of the past, where there are also a number of interesting pictures.

Interesting photos of people and events that have gone down in history

We bring to your attention rare and interesting historical photographs that will be of interest to you.

Monica Bellucci, 1992

Drug lord Pablo Escobar and his son Juan pose in front of the White House in the 1980s

Electronic digital integrator and calculator, the fourth computer built in history, 1946

Young Osama bin Laden in judo training

The guy is watching Family album, who found in the rubble of his old home after the Sichuan earthquake.

Walking hippos in the zoo, Moscow, 1950s.

Tibetan national football team. 1936 year.

Visiting Donald Trump, 1987

Vladimir Ilyich speaks to the units of the Red Army leaving for the Polish front. Moscow, May 5, 1920.

Supporters of the African National Congress burn a man suspected of being a Zulu spy. South Africa, 1990.

"Aggressors found!" Drawing from the Czechoslovak magazine Roháč, 1958.

Burial of the corpses of Japanese soldiers in Saipan, 1944. A bulldozer prepares a mass grave.

The tower of the battleship Mutsu, recovered from the seabed. On June 8, 1943, the ship exploded in Hiroshima Bay and sank at a depth of 40 meters.

Passers-by are exploring new card Europe after the end of the First World War. Philadelphia, 1918.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Milla Jovovich

Photo of Abraham Lincoln's dog Fido, 1861.

Victor Pivovarov, 1975. The daily routine of a lonely person.

Opening of the pharaoh's sarcophagus, 1924 After 3 thousand years of loneliness, Tutankhamun met people again.

Zakhar Prilepin in Dagestan, 1999.

Chechen boy with a machine gun in a refugee camp. Ingushetia, November 1999.

A wedding cortege crosses checkpoints, Grozny, 2000.

The Swede hit a neo-Nazi protester with a bag. This woman survived after being imprisoned in a concentration camp (1985).

Young clown Yuri Nikulin depicts "a man from the public" who first sat on a horse, 1947, Moscow

Sophia Loren, Rome, 1955

Leon Trotsky in a Mexico City hospital after the assassination attempt, August 1940

A cat runs across the street during a street fight in Beirut, Lebanon, 1980s.

Pilots on a flight simulator, 1915, Russian Empire

Everything in life has its beginning, so any science and art originate somewhere in the depths of centuries, and then develop, improve, new directions, new trends are formed. This also applies to photography, which I perceive as art, the development of which is directly related to science, I mean the development of photographic technology. This article, entitled "The History of Photography in Brief", contains the most important facts about the birth and development of the great art of photography.

It is worth starting with the main definition of photography, it came from the ancient Greek words "light" and "I write", i.e. light painting is a technique of painting with light. This is the ability to create and save an image using a light-sensitive material (matrix) in the camera. This is the technically correct wording. If we talk about photography as an art form, then the definition may sound like this: the creative process of searching for and creating a theoretically correct and artistic and artistic composition, which in turn, albeit partially, is determined by vision. The term itself appeared in 1839.

History of photography in brief

In 1826, the Frenchman Joseph Nicephorus Niepce surprised many by taking the first photograph in the history of mankind, obtained using a "camera obscura" (per. Dark room) on a tin plate covered with a thin layer of Syrian asphalt. This photograph was a view from the window of Jean N. Niepce's workshop and it was created over 8 hours, continuously under direct sunlight.

Almost at the same time as Zh.N. Niepce, another Frenchman, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, worked on obtaining a stable image. In 1829, having united with Niepce and received all detailed information about his previous experiences, Louis Daguerre begins to actively work on improving the process. And in 1837 he succeeds and gets an image in 30 minutes, using as a fixer table salt. This method is called daguerreotype. However, unlike the method of J. Niepce, it was impossible to copy the images.

Along with the French, the Englishman William Fox Henry Talbot worked on the creation of a stable image, and in 1839 he created his own method of obtaining a negative image called calotypy (later it became known as talbotypy). The main difference between this process is the special way of preparing sensitive paper. This process dominated the creation of both portrait and architectural images.

The history of the development of photography continues in 1850. Louis Brancart Ervar finds a new type of photographic paper - albumide, which was later used as the main one until the end of the century.

In 1851, the Frenchman Gustave Le Gret invented wax negatives, which in turn replaced the talbotype. This innovation has greatly simplified the process of creating images in nature.

The history of photography continues into 1847, when a kind of new stage in its development. This year begins the era of glass negatives, Claude Felix Abel Niepce achieved the first impressive results in this process. And already in 1851, the Englishman Frederick Scott Archer developed the wet callodion process. Due to the legal insecurity of this process, it quickly became widespread and helped to increase. In 1854, the name Ambrotype, patented in America, appeared, which was a kind of more simplified version of Daguerreotype.

In 1861, the English physicist James Maxwell succeeded in obtaining a color image for the first time in the world, which was the result of three shots of the same subject, with different filters (red, blue and green). The wider use of color photography was made possible by Adolf Mieta. He invented sensitizers that make photographic plates more sensitive to other regions of the spectrum. An even greater contribution to the development of this was made by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, who developed technologies to reduce exposure.

Development did not stand still, from year to year scientists sought to improve the process of creating an image. So a new stage in the history of photography began in 1872, when the Englishman Richard Leach Maddox announced the creation of a dry collodion plate.

In 1876 in England began A complex approach to the study of the photographic process by W. Driffield and F. Harter, they focused their attention on the study of the relationship between the exposure time and the amount of silver formed in the film. In 1879, J. Swann opened the first production of special silver halide photographic paper based on gelatin, which became the main element in the production of paper for photographs and is still used today. industrial production... By this time, the workers involved in the production of photographic prints were already able to slightly adjust the tonality and contrast of the image during production.

The American banker George Eastman in 1880, after a trip to England, opened his own company in America under the name "Eastman Dry Records Company", which later in 1888 was renamed and registered as the KODAK company. And in the same year this brand was released in the summer.

In 1869, Edward James Muybridge created one of the first camera shutters, which he used to photograph horses. In addition, he created his own photography system. In 1881, photographs of horses made Muybridge famous all over the world.

The history of photography continues further: in 1884 D. Eastman received a patent for roller film on a paper backing and cassette, which was a great innovation in the process of photography. And already in 1888 D. Eastman received a patent for a portable camera, which housed the roller film he had patented earlier. And already in 1889 mass production of films began.

In 1911, Oskar Barnack came to work for the German company Leitz, who made a huge contribution to further development photos. Thanks to his efforts and research, in 1925 goes on sale small format camera of a new type called Leica I(the name comes from the merger of the two words Leitz and Camera), which worked on standard film. Also this year, P. Vircotter secured the rights to the first flash lamp invented by him, and in 1931 G. Edgerton invented the world's first electronic flash, which naturally replaced the flash lamp.

In 1932, the world's first becomes public small format rangefinder camera Leica II.

Since about the 1930s. Color photography is gaining popularity, thanks to the Kodak Company, the first to produce color reversible Kodachrome film. And in 1942, the company launched Kodacolor film, which has become very popular among professionals and amateurs of photography.

In 1948, Polaroid made a breakthrough in photography with the Polaroid Land 95, which ushers in the era of instant photography.

In 1975, Kodak engineer Stephen Sassoon developed and presented to the public the first digital camera... had a resolution of 0.1 mega pixel.

The growing public interest in photography demanded a more user-friendly model and more production, and in 1988 FUJI introduced the truly portable FUJI DS-1P digital camera.

Nowadays, when even mobile phones have built-in cameras that can do enough nice photos, it can be difficult to imagine that people once spent a huge amount of time creating just one photo.

The logical result of the development of photography was its transformation into a true art. And personally, I am infinitely glad of this that now there is more opportunity create truly artistic, artistic photographs.

Several Yet interesting facts from the history of photography:

- Louis Dagger took a photograph in 1838, which is considered the first where a person is depicted.

- In 1839 Robert Cornelius made his first self-portrait.

- In 1858 Gaspard Turnas made the first aerial photograph of Paris.

- In 1856, William Thompson took the first underwater photograph. His camera was attached to a pole.

- In 1840, Professor John William Draper took the first successful photograph of the moon.

- In 1972, the first color photograph of our beautiful planet Earth was taken.

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