Ylla
Ylla (born Camilla Koffler, born August 16, 1911 in Vienna, † March 30, 1955 in Bharatpur ) was a Hungarian photographer who specialized in animal photography. At the time of her death she was, according to the New York Times " as the most competent wildlife photographer in the world".
Life
Camilla Koffler was born in Vienna, the daughter of a Serbian mother and a Romanian father, both of which had the Hungarian nationality. From the age of eight years she attended a German boarding school in Budapest. In 1925 she moved with her mother to Belgrade, where she studied at the Academy of Art sculpture under the Italian- Yugoslav sculptor Petar Pallavicini. When she found out that her first name is Camilla in Serbian camel, they changed this in Ylla.
1929 Ylla received an order for a bas-relief of a movie theater in Belgrade. In 1931 she moved to Paris, where she studied sculpture at the Académie Colarossi, and she worked as a photo retoucher and assistant to the French-Hungarian photographer Ergy Landau. The following year she began to photograph animals. Her work has been exhibited at the Galerie de la Pléiade, and she opened her own studio for animal photographs. In 1933 she was the head of the prestigious photo agency Rado, Charles Rado recommended, who was also Hungarian. For Julian Huxley in 1938 she made the photographs for the book Animal Language.
As a Jew, she fled the U.S. in 1941; allows her was the the New York Museum of Modern Art, which got her a visa. Your photos appeared among others in Life, Look, and Sports Illustrated. In 1952 she traveled to Africa in 1954 and to India for the first time. Between 1944 and 1954 she published ten books, including that for children ( most famously The Sleepy Little Lion and Two Little Bears, which have been translated into several languages). The end of 1954, she traveled at the invitation of the Maharaja of Mysore in India. There she crashed while photographing a bullock race in Bathapur of a jeep and died shortly after their injuries. The posthumously in 1956 and 1964 with their photos illustrated books The Little Elephant and I'll Show You Cats chose the New York Times to the bestillustrierten children's books.
The English biologist Julian Huxley said about Ylla:
" She is, I think, the outstanding animal photographer. She is outstanding in being able to seize in her pictures some essential quality of subjects here, Which more orthodox photographers are apt to miss in Their desire for so - called realistic and complete representation. "
" I think she is the excellent animal photographer. It is excellent in its ability to confer an essential quality of the themes of their images, which is lacking in their desire for so-called reality and complete reproduction of more conventional photographers. "
Charles Rado wrote:
" [ Ylla what ] one of the most skilled and dedicated photographers of animals. They were her life, she loved them all [ ... ] She was wonderfully alive, amusing, fond of travel and people, and she loved her work Because she loved animals and Understood. Her books, in Particular, gave her much satisfaction. She worked on them with infinite patience, supervising Their design and printing. Animals (1951 ) won a prize as one of the most beautiful books of the year. [ ... ] She Contributed to Practically every illustrated magazine here and in Europe. [ ... ] The thrill of observing and photographing wild animals in natural habitat Their was a new and exciting experience to Ylla; she would never again be content with photographing zoo animals. "
" [ Ylla was ] one of the most talented and most dedicated photographers of animals. They were her life, she loved them all. [ ... ] She was wonderfully vivid, entertaining, traveling and loved the people and they loved her work because she loved animals and understood. Especially her books won her a lot of satisfaction. She put them cope with infinite patience, oversaw its design and its pressure. Animals (1951 ) won an award as one of the most beautiful books of the year. [ ... ] You actually worked for each illustrated magazine here and in Europe. [ ... ] The thrill in observing and photographing wild animals in their natural environment was a new and exciting experience for Ylla; they would never have been more content to shoot zoo animals. "
Ylla and Hatari!
Yllas life as an animal photographer inspired the director Howard Hawks to instruct his screenwriter Leigh Brackett, brought out in his 1962 film Hatari! incorporate a roller based on Yllas person. Hawks said: " We took did part of the story from a real character, a German girl. She was the best animal photographer in the world. " The photographer says in the film Anna Maria ' Dallas ' D' Alessandro and works for zoos, she was played by Elsa Martinelli.