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Extensive survey of one of Russia's greatest combat photographer who was witness to some of this century's darkest moments and many of its most triumphant events. Born during the Bolshevik Revolution, Khaldei had crafted a camera for himself at age fifteen out of a cardboard box and his grandmother's spectacles. Before long, his heroic images of Soviet life were appearing in Pravda and the TASS news agency. The photographs in Witness to History survey the Eastern European conflict from the German invasion of the USSR in 1941 to the fall of Berlin in 1945. Among the gritty images here are an old woman lugging a trunk past a forest of chimneys, a German family destroyed by their father's murder-suicide, and a reindeer watching a shell exploding on the ground as Soviet planes fly overhead.
Hardcover
96 pages
75 duotone plates
Aperture, 1997
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