Vasily Malyshev is a talented photographer. But you can fully call him an observant artist. So realistic, individual are all of his heroes, whom he so skillfully captured in color photographs.
Vasily Malyshev belongs to the galaxy of talented photographers. He lived and worked in the era of the USSR, when color photography was only developing. A talented artist created many portraits of people of various professions, made a great contribution to the development of the art of color photography.
Biography
Vasily Malyshev was born at the beginning of the XX century - in 1900. Mother’s gift in the form of a Kodak camera became a landmark for a ten-year-old boy. It was from this age that Vasily began taking photographs. But he began to professionally engage in his favorite business only when he was 37 years old.
At this age, Malyshev began working as a correspondent for the Trud newspaper, but here he was hired for a freelance position. And the master became a full-time employee at the TASS agency when he created photo opuses for organizing the Union of Photographers.
Harsh years
Vasily Malyshev passed the Great Patriotic War. By this time, he was already the chief editor of TASS. The master of photography worked in photo intelligence, was on various fronts.
When the significant Nuremberg trials took place, Malyshev was sent there as an official photographer.
Creativity and career
When the war ended, a talented artist began working at the press and news agency.
He created many portraits of people, among them actors, collective farmers, representatives of various professions.
Looking at his pictures, you understand that the artist loves all his characters. Therefore, such inspired faces look at the audience from photographs. Each of them has its own zest, originality.
Now photographs can be processed using computer technology. Then it was not. And the merit of the famous photo artist who was able to expand the possibilities of color art, shoot many people against the background of landscapes familiar to them, and achieve harmony all the more.
