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ДЕНЬ В ИСТОРИИ ФОТОГРАФИИ
 | | Ylla (Камилла Коффлер - Camilla Koffler) Camilla Koffler, known by her artist name Ylla, was born in Vienna in 1911 to a Serb mother and a Romanian father, both Hungarian nationals. During the First World War, she was obliged to travel with her mother by foot between Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, the family jewels sewn into her mothers fur collar and the money stuffed in her shoes. In 1919, she was placed in a German boarding school in Budapest, a six year period of relative stability. She joined her mother in Belgrade in 1926 where she studied sculpture with Pallavicini at the Academy of Fine Arts. Soon she discovered that Camilla in Serbe stands for camel, whereupon she called herself Ylla. Her early interest in animals is revealed in a bas-relief sculpture depicting animals, commissioned by a cinema in Belgrade, as well as by her efforts at the time to find homes for stray cats and dogs. [16.8.1911] | | In 1931 Ylla moved to Paris to continue her studies at the Academie Colarossi, supporting herself by working with the photographer Ergy Landau as assistant and photo retoucher, an experience that lead her to consider foregoing sculpture for photography. The following year, after showing Landau several photographs of animals taken while on vacation in Normandy, Landau, impressed with her work, arranged an exhibition for her at the Galerie de La Pleiade. The exhibition was well received, motivating Ylla to open a studio in Paris specializing in animal portraits. Landau was Yllas entree to the artistic milieu of Montparnasse where she was introduced to Charles Rado of the Rapho photo agency, who immediately began to promote her internationally in the world of publishing. Her photographs first appeared in several annual editions of Photographie, published by Arts et Metiers Graphiques, and Lilliput in England. In 1937, Ylla published two small collections of dog and cat photographs, followed in 1938 by her first major book, Petits et Grands (published as Big and Little in England and the United States). That same year she collaborated with British evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley for his new book, Animal Language, which included two records of animal calls.
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