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From a Day of Grief, Kerch, Crimea, January 1942
From a Day of Grief, Kerch, Crimea, January 1942
From a Day of Grief, Kerch, Crimea, January 1942

From a Day of Grief, Kerch, Crimea, January 1942

Maker (Russian, 1912-1990)
Date1942; printed 2003
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionscover sheet: 20 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in; image: 18 1/4 in x 12 3/8 in; paper: 19 7/8 in x 15 15/16 in
Credit LineGift of Peter Chatzky
Object number2012:115
About the ArtistDmitri Baltermants was a prominent Soviet photojournalist who was born in Warsaw, Poland. He was an official Kremlin photographer and he worked for the Soviet daily Izvestia and was picture editor at the magazine Ogonyok. During WWII he covered the Battle of Stalingrad and the Red Army in Russia and the Ukraine. His images were often censored by Soviet authorities because they wanted the public to only see images that portrayed military service in a positive light. Most of his censored images were made public in the 1960s.
Carting the Dead, Kerch, Crimea, January 1942
Baltermants, Dmitri
1942; printed 2003
Battle for Kamenka Village, Near Moscow
Baltermants, Dmitri
1941; printed 2003
In the Foxholes
Baltermants, Dmitri
1941-45; printed 2003
First Decorated Heroes of Liberated Odessa
Baltermants, Dmitri
1944; printed 2003
Newlyweds, Havana, Cuba
Baltermants, Dmitri
n.d., printed 2003
Sofronov in Yurmala, Latvia
Baltermants, Dmitri
n.d.; printed 2003
Forward
Baltermants, Dmitri
1943; printed 2003
The March of the German POWs
Baltermants, Dmitri
1942; printed 2003
Bayonet Attack, November 1941
Baltermants, Dmitri
1941; printed 2003
Two German POWs
Baltermants, Dmitri
1945; printed 2003
Down German Plane, Breslau, Spring 1945
Baltermants, Dmitri
1945; printed 2003