SOVIET WAR PHOTOGRAPHY:Images of the Second World War and its AftermathHoward Schickler Fine Art |
Seldom exhibited and rarely seen in the West, war photographs by Soviet photojournalists of the Second World War are at last making their way to museums and private collections. These master photographers captured on photographic film both the destruction and death in the motherland after the Nazi invasion of 1941, as well as the triumph and glory of the Red Army's march to Berlin culminating in victory in May of 1945. Many of the leading photographers in Russia during the 1920's and 1930's, such as Alpert, Zelma, and Shaikhet became leaders of the Red Army's photographic brigade alongside young photographers such as Yevgeny Khaldei, who was to take some of the most compelling and memorable images of the 20th century. 
From the partisans gathering to thwart the Nazi advance into Belorussia, to the siege of Stalingrad, and finally to the raising of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin in May, 1945, and the subsequent war crimes trials of Nuremberg in 1946, these photographs have fortuitously survived to document these momentous historical events. |