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1,418 days of WWII viewed through lens of legendary Soviet photographer

http://www.rt.com/news/383154-soviet-war-photographer-khaldei/

Publisher:  RT
Date Written:  02/04/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Profile of Soviet photographer Yevgeny Khaldei and a sample of his photographs captured during WWII.

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Soviet photographer Yevgeny Khaldei never parted with his camera, and spent 1,418 days photographing heart-wrenching moments of WWII. His iconic images, including "Raising a Flag over the Reichstag," were shot on a Leica. Khaldei made his first camera out of cardboard boxes, creating a lens from a pair of old glasses. He was 13. When the teen, whose mother and grandfather were killed during the Jewish pogrom in Ukraine in 1918, began working at a local plant, he bought himself a decent camera and published his first amateur photographs in a local newspaper. Some of the negatives were sent to Moscow, and in the early 1930s, Khaldei's pictures finally saw the light of the day in the prominent Izvestia newspaper. He later continued his career as a staff photographer at TASS news agency.

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