1. Camilla "Ylla" Koffler was a Hungarian photographer who specialized in animal photography.
10 Facts About Ylla
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In 1929, Ylla received a commission for a bas-relief sculpture for a Belgrade movie theater.
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In 1932, Ylla began photographing animals, exhibited her work at Galerie de La Pleiade, and opened a studio to photograph pets.
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In 1952, Ylla traveled to Africa, and in 1954 she visited India for the first time.
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Ylla, trapped under water, struggled to free herself and fainted upon reaching the surface.
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In 1955, Ylla was fatally injured after falling from a jeep while photographing a bullock cart race during festivities in Bharatpur, North India.
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Ylla is outstanding in being able to seize in her pictures some essential quality of her subjects, which more orthodox photographers are apt to miss in their desire for so-called realistic and complete representation.
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Ylla was wonderfully alive, amusing, fond of travel and people, and she loved her work because she loved and understood animals.
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Ylla worked on them with infinite patience, supervising their design and printing.
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Ylla contributed to practically every illustrated magazine here and in Europe.