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Oskar Barnack (Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, 1 November 1879 – Bad Nauheim, Hesse, 16 January 1936) was a German inventor and photographer who built, in 1913, what would later become the first commercially successful 35mm still-camera, subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar.
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award, presented almost continuously since 1979, recognizes photography expressing the relationship between man and the environment.It was known as the Oskar Barnack Award when presented by World Press Photo between 1979 and 1992, and has been known as the Leica Oskar Barnack Award while presented by Leica Camera since 1995.
1991 – European Kodak Award of Photography, Arles (France) [12] 1993 – Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography, San Francisco (CA, United States) [ 13 ] 1998 – Leica Oskar Barnack Award , Arles (France) [ 1 ]
Claudine Doury (born 1959) is a French photographer living in Paris. [1] She has been a member of Agence Vu since 1991. [2] In 1999, she received the Leica Oskar Barnack award [1] as well as a World Press Photo award for her work on the "Peoples of Siberia", [3] and the Niépce Prize in 2004. [4]
The Leica Standard, Model E was the fourth version of the original 35 mm Leica camera to be launched from Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany.The concept was conceived by their employee Oskar Barnack in 1913 at which time two prototypes were built.
She is a member of the In-Public street photography collective and is a founding member of the Oculi photographic agency. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke, with whom she often collaborates. She has won two Walkley Awards for photojournalism, two first prize World Press Photo awards, and the Oskar Barnack Award.
Barnack tried a Zeiss Tessar on his early prototype camera, but because the Tessar was designed for the 18×24 mm cine format, it inadequately covered the Leica's 24×36mm negative. Barnack resorted to a Leitz Mikro-Summar 1:4.5/42 mm lens for the prototype, but to achieve resolution necessary for satisfactory enlargement, the 24x36 mm format ...
Founder of the school of conceptual and art photography MYPH (2018). [4] [2] Member of the creative association Ukrainian Photographic Alternative (2012). [2] In 2017, he became the first Ukrainian to receive the German Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer. [5] [6] [7]