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  Yevgeny Khaldei at Nuremberg
There he was, Yevgeny Khaldei in his Soviet naval uniform, taking pictures in the center of the Nuremberg Trial.
In at least one instance, Khaldei was able to circumvent this restriction by bribing an assistant to one of the Soviet justices with a bottle of gin in exchange for his seat - the seat that yielded one of the most interesting photographs of Hermann Göring and the Nuremberg Trial, Unusual Perspective.
Khaldei often referred to one incident that perfectly illustrates this "world turned upside down." An American MP came to Khaldei and the other Soviet photographers and invited them to photograph some of the defendants, who had been permitted to gather in a side chamber to eat.
www.schicklerart.com /exhibitions/khaldei/Nuremberg/HTML   (1131 words)

  
  Yevgeny Khaldei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khaldei was born in a Jewish family in Ukraine and had been obsessed with photography since childhood, having built his first childhood camera out of his grandmother's glasses.
Khaldei was also witness to several pivotal moments in history and is particularly reputed for his photographs during World War II and the Nuremberg Trials.
Khaldei worked with the TASS until 1972, when he was forced to retire due to the growing anti-semitism by the Soviet state.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yevgeny_Khaldei   (469 words)

  
 Robert Koch Gallery: Publications
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.
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.
kochgallery.com /publications/bk_html/ykh_bk01.html   (152 words)

  
 Soviet lensman Yevgeny Khaldei, famous for images of WWII, dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
MOSCOW -- Soviet war photographer Yevgeny Khaldei, who died this week in Moscow at age 80, was resigned to official tampering with the picture which became one of the most famous images of World War II, a friend said Wednesday.
On May 2, 1945, Khaldei scaled the Reichstag's blood-splattered roof in Berlin to photograph a victorious Red Army soldier waving a Soviet flag.
Khaldei died Monday at home in the arms of his daughter Anna and son-in-law, Kaspiev said.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/10/09/photog-obit.2-0.html   (199 words)

  
 Yevgeny Khaldei, Red Army photographer 1941-1946
From 18 March until 5 June 2005 the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam is hosting an exhibition of photographs by Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997), one of the most important Soviet war photographers of the Second World War.
Khaldei's work is remarkable for its combination of documentary and artistic photography and for his commentary accompanying many of the images.
Khaldei, born in 1917 to a Jewish family in the Ukraine, made his first childhood camera from the lenses of his grandmother's spectacles.
www.bh.org.il /Exhibitions/Worldwide/khaldei.aspx   (496 words)

  
 Jewish Historical Museum | exhibitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Khaldei’s work is remarkable for its combination of documentary and artistic photography and emphasises the tragic and absurd aspects of the Second World War.
Born into a Jewish family in the Ukraine in 1917, at the age of nineteen Khaldei became a photographer with the official Soviet press agency TASS.
Khaldei’s own texts serve as the captions for the photographs and are also reproduced in the publication Von Moskau nach Berlin: Jewgeni Khaldei (Berlin 1999 – German/English), which accompanies the exhibition.
www.jhm.nl /exhibitions.aspx?ID=114   (428 words)

  
 Banner of Victory (Soviet Army in Berlin, 1945)
Yevgeni Khaldei, the Ukranian photographer who has died aged 80, created one of the most celebrated images of the Second World War, that of a soldier raising the Soviet flag above the ruins of the Reichstag on May 2, 1945.
Khaldei’s lot, as a war journalist, was to produce propaganda, a task eminently suited to his heroic style of photography.
Here are the main points concerning the flag: Khaldei told the newspaper the flag was made by his uncle, who stitched the hammer, sickle and star on to a red table cloth taken from the TASS office in Moscow.
flagspot.net /flags/su^vctry.html   (1821 words)

  
 Speed of Life: 6o Years On
I had the honor of meeting him almost ten years ago when the end of the cold war seemed to mark an era of future peace, Yevgeny's body was starting to fail but his mind was sharp and his descriptions of the struggle against the Nazis were vivid.
Despite the horrors of Nazism and the war as well as the deprivations he suffered for being Jewish, Yevgeny was still able to see the beauty and courage hidden within the details of his experiences and offer us hope for the future.
It is my call as an artist not to forget, but instead to create art in the spirit of Yevgeny Khaldei that marks the moments of our time.
greggchadwick.blogspot.com /2005/01/6o-years-on.html   (424 words)

  
 Bramfoto | Words and Photos
This gathering is to inaugurate Khaldei’s “Exhibit in Black and White: The photojournalism of Yevgeny Khaldei” running at the Jewish Museum in San Francisco through July 17 after opening previously in New York City.
Khaldei, anticipating the final triumph as the Russian army moves toward Berlin, imagines photographs atop the great German monuments, especially the Reichstag, the German parliament building.
Khaldei appears philosophical about his life, reiterating that he feels fortunate to have witnessed historical events, and is accepting that the bad times were also part of history.
www.bramfoto.com /NewFiles/khaldei.html   (1128 words)

  
 www.rian.ru
Another film, from Belgium, is about the life and the creative activity of famous Soviet photographer Yevgeny Khaldei.
Yevgeny Khaldei, as a photographer, was present at the Potsdam conference and at the Nuremberg Trials, and photographed the whole trial over fascist criminals.
The authors of the film, "Yevgeny Khaldei, a Photographer in Stalin's Time." visited his Moscow flat where they heard his story about his life.
en.rian.ru /russia/20050418/39687250-print.html   (456 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97073708   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Khaldei's life was shaped by the triumphs and disasters of the Soviet twentieth century.
A year later, as pogroms ravaged the Jewish towns of the Ukraine, his mother was shot and the bullet that killed her lodged in his chest.
By the end of the war Khaldei was acknowledged as Russia's greatest combat photographer.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol055/97073708.html   (326 words)

  
 Independent, The (London): BEING THERE
Khaldei was born as the Revolution began, on 10 March, 1917, in a steel town in the Ukraine.
She was holding the infant Yevgeny to protect him, and the bullet passed through his side before killing her.
Khaldei had his first image of the new war.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950603/ai_n13986315   (460 words)

  
 Robert Koch Gallery: Publications
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.
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.
www.kochgallery.com /publications/bk_html/ykh_bk01.html   (152 words)

  
 BiggerBooks.com — Discount Bookstore. Bestsellers, New Books, Used Books and Textbooks
At age eighteen, Khaldei was hired by TASS.
By the end of World War II Khaldei was twenty-eight and one of Russia's greatest combat photographers.
Khaldei's photographs are a powerful and poignant documentation of twentieth-century history.
www.biggerbooks.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0893817384   (190 words)

  
 PREVIEW OF EVENTS (01/19/97)
NEW YORK: The exhibit "A Witness to History: Yevgeny Khaldei, Soviet Photojournalist" opens at The Jewish Museum and will be on view through April 13.
Khaldei was born in 1917 in Stalino (now Donetsk), Ukraine.
Khaldei continued to work as a photojournalist from the 1950s until his retirement in 1991.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1997/039721.shtml   (837 words)

  
 1998 SFJFF - Evgueni Khaldei & Farewell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
At the age of one, Evgueni Khaldei was wounded in a pogrom and became an orphan.
Khaldei died in 1997 at age 80, shortly after the film was completed.
Evgueni Khaldei: Photographer Under Stalin was reviewed for the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California by Bulletin Correspondent Michael Fox.
www.sfjff.org /sfjff18/programs/p0723f.html   (475 words)

  
 The Colgate Scene - May 1998 - Reviews
Yevgeny Khaldei recorded not only the fighting but also, postwar, the Potsdam Conference of Truman, Churchill and Stalin, then in 1946 the Nuremberg trials.
The result was Khaldei’s first trip overseas, to Hamilton in October 1995.
Khaldei returned to the United States in 1997, this time for museum shows in both New York and San Francisco — with an added side-trip to Colgate.
www4.colgate.edu /scene/may1998/reviews.html   (1038 words)

  
 CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
In a festival of documentary films from the European Union, many of the works are focused on Russian themes -- from Yevgeny Khaldei, the photographer who snapped Soviet soldiers raising the flag over the Reichstag, to the fate of the Soviet Union's largest aircraft carrier.
On Saturday there will be a chance to see Marc-Henri Wajnberg's 1997 profile of the Tass and Pravda photographer Yevgeny Khaldei, who shot iconic images of Soviet leaders and the famous 1945 picture of Red Army soldiers dangling the Soviet flag from the roof of the Reichstag in Berlin.
The Belgian director traveled to Moscow to interview Khaldei, who died the year that the film was released.
context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2005/04/22/103.html   (637 words)

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