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Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of those photographers whose work was mainly influenced by painting. A photographer born in 1908, he became interested in fine arts as a child thanks to his uncle Louis. Two years after they met, their uncle died, but the...

Street photographer and architecture connoisseur Oleksandr Ranchukov has created a huge number of pictures of old Kyiv in 76 years of his life. Here he was born, studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, wrote several books about the capital. The...

World Kissing Day, which was invented in the UK in the 19th century, is celebrated annually on July 6th. There are several theories of its origin. One of them is very material. According to a number of data, it is known that a certain British dentist...

Ukrainian embroidered shirts are timeless clothes. It has been and remains relevant through the ages. It is worn not only by native Ukrainians, but also by people all over the world. And celebrities are no exception. A series of photographs of Jim...

Yaroslav Savka occupies an important place in the history of the development of artistic photography in Ukraine. One of the members of the UFOTO and the author of texts on photography collaborated with the magazine "Light and Tin". He showed his first...

Recently, the 128th anniversary of the electric tram was celebrated in Lviv. For the first time, a tram appeared on the streets of the city in the 1860s, when carriages with passengers were pulled by horses. In 1888, they started talking about a steam...

Around the 11th century, a new settlement appeared in western Ukraine, which became the center of the salt trade. In those distant times, it was called the Solo Town, and scientists mention it as the Galician Town. On the map, this settlement, located...

In 1896, the French art collector Antonin Personnaz joined the ranks of outstanding photographers. By that time, he had already become acquainted with various trends in art and had collected a decent number of paintings. In 1880, a connoisseur of...

Every war ends sooner or later, there comes a time of peace and restoration. After the Second World War, Europe experienced a difficult, but important period of unification, which dragged on for several decades. It seemed that the civilized world would...

In 1895, a photo album was published with photographs in which two gentlemen demonstrate different methods of self-defense. Stylishly dressed men show what body blows, sweeps, and chokeholds look like. Illustrations of the battle are presented in the...