| Yevgeny Khaldei | ||
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A Red Army soldier raising the Soviet Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei. [1] |
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| Born | March 23 [O.S. March 10] 1917 | |
| Birth place |  Donbass, Ukraine |
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| Died | October 6, 1997 (aged 80) | |
| in |  Russia |
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| Occupation | Photojournalism | |
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Yevgeny Khaldei (March 23 [O.S. March 10] 1917 - October 6, 1997) was a world renowned Red Army photographer, best known for his World War II photograph of a Russian soldier placing the Soviet Union's Red flag atop the Reichstag building in Berlin, signifying the fall of Germany. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Old Style (or OS) and New Style (or NS) are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Donets Basin, also known as Donbas or Donbass (Донецький басейн usually abbreviated to Донбас translit Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Photojournalism is a particular form of Journalism (the collecting editing and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast that creates images in order to tell Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Old Style (or OS) and New Style (or NS) are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar The Red Army ( Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия R aboche- K rest'yanskaya K rasnaya A rmiya World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Red flags can signify a warning Martial law, defiance or Left-wing politics The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed to house the Reichstag, the first Parliament of the German Empire. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Celebrated as the image is, it was a reconstruction of a moment that had happened earlier but had been missed by the camera (the first persons in the Reichstag were not on the picture). The original flag raising happened at 10:40 PM on April 30, 1945 when 23-year old Mikhail Minin climbed the statue and inserted the flag into the mounted statue, Germania's, crown. Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The Battle of Berlin Joseph Stalin had urged his troops to mount the flag on the Reichstag building no later than May 1, 1945. As this happened at night it was too dark to take a photograph. The next day the flag was taken down by Nazi holdouts who were only defeated after a few days of fighting. Finally on May 2, 1945 Khaldei scaled the now pacified Reichstag to take his picture with two hand picked soldiers: Georgian Meliton Kantaria (to please Stalin who was also Georgian) and the Russian Mikhail Yegorov. Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Meliton Varlamovich Kantaria (მელიტონ ქანთარია Мелитон Варламович Кантария ( 5 October 1920, Jvari Georgia ( საქართველო, Sakartvelo) is a Transcontinental country in the Caucasus region situated at the dividing line between Mikhail Yegorov, along with Meliton Kantaria, was one of the two soldiers credited with raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag during the Battle of Berlin [1]
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Life
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. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. Photography (fә'tɒgrәfi or fә'tɑːgrәfi (from Greek φωτο and γραφία is the process and Art of recording pictures by means of capturing He started working with the Soviet press agency TASS at the age of nineteen as a press photographer. The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza) abbr
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[2]. The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political military and economic leadership of Nazi Germany after Khaldei worked with the TASS until 1949, when he was fired due to the growing anti-semitism by the Soviet state. For the next ten years, he worked as a private freelance photographer, focusing on scenes from everyday life. In 1959, he got a job again at the newspaper Pravda, where he worked until he was forced to retire in 1970, again because of his Jewish background. Pravda (Правда "The Truth" was a leading Newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the [3] Even though the flag over the Reichstag is one of his most famous works officials in the Soviet government never published who the photographer was. Khaldei's international fame dates from the fall of the Soviet Union, in 1991.
Works
Khaldei's most renowned photographs were taken when he was a Red Army photographer from 1941 to 1946. Khaldei's photographs emphasised his feelings for the historic moments and his sense of humour. One of the more famous anecdotes was during the Nuremberg Trials, where Hermann Göring was being tried. Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Goering) (12 January 1893 15 October 1946 was a German Politician, Military leader and a leading member Khaldei says about the Göring shot:
| “ | When we received orders to leave Nuremberg, I asked an American colleague to photograph me with Göring. Göring remembered that, because of me, he had been hit with a club, and hence he always turned his head aside when I came into the courtroom. When he noticed I wanted to get into the picture with him, he put down his hand in front of his face. | ” |
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— Khaldei
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While Khaldei frequently staged or manipulated his photographs, he insisted that this was to signify the importance and add strength to a particular event. His work was also admired by the elites of the Soviet Union and he is renowned for creating commissioned portraits for State leaders such as Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Joseph Stalin ( ნამდვილი გვარი ჯუღაშვილი|Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili; March 5 1953 was General Secretary of the Communist Party Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev ( Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov;; born 2 March 1931 in Privolnoye Stavropol Krai) is a Russian politician Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin () (1 February 1931 23 April 2007 was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999
References
- ^ a b Lucas, Dean. Famous Pictures Magazine - Flag on the Reichstag.
- ^ Short biography at Jewish Virtual Library (HTML). The Jewish Virtual Library is an online Encyclopedia published by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE Jewish Virtual Library (2007). The Jewish Virtual Library is an online Encyclopedia published by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE Retrieved on 2007-10-14. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill seven miles from Hastings, the forces
- ^ Grosset, M. : Close up: Yevgeni Khaldei, Enter #3, World Press Photo, January 2006. URL last accessed 2006-10-13. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees
Further reading
- Ernst Volland & Heinz Krimmer (eds), "Von Moskau nach Berlin: Bilder des Fotografen Jewgeni Chaldej" (Berlin: Nicolai, 1994).
- Alexander Nakhimovsky, Alice Nakhimovsky, Yevgeny Khaldei (Photographer). "Witness to History : The Photographs of Yevgeny Khaidei". Aperture (1997). New York, NY. ISBN 0893817384.
- Mark Grosset (2004). Khaldei: Un photoreporter en Union Soviétique (in
French). Editions du Chêne. ISBN 2842775481.
External links
 Another photo of the same event by Khaldei |
 Reichstag 2007 from where the photo was taken. |
 Building in picture as of 2007. |
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