History: The Photographs of Yevgeny Khaldeiin
- This was followed by the exhibitionsA Wit-
ness to History: Yevgeny Khaldei, Soviet Photo-
journalistat the Jewish Museum, New York from
January to April 13, 1997, andRussia in Black and
White: The Photojournalism of Yevgeny Khaldei,
Jewish Museum, San Francisco from February 24
to July 17, 1997.
JenniferOlson-RudenkoBiography
Yevgeny Khaldei was born on March 10, 1917, in Yuzovka
(later Stalino, later Donetsk), Ukraine. In 1918, Khal-
dei’s mother was killed in a pogrom against the Jewish
community, and the family took up residency with his
grandparents. After completing four grades, Khaldei
went to work cleaning the insides of steam engines in
order to help support himself. In 1936, Khaldei began
working for TASS news agency. In 1937, he was drafted
and served as a guard on the Finnish border. He con-
tinued to work for TASS serving as a war correspondent
from 1941–1945. In 1941, his family, along with the
other Stalino Jews, was killed by the Nazis. On October
31, 1945, he married Svetlana and she bore him a daugh-
ter, Anna. In 1948, he was dismissed by TASS. In 1959,
Khaldei was hired by the Russian newspaperPravda.In
1976, he was dismissed for being Jewish. He died on
October 6, 1997 in Moscow.
Selected Works
Sailors’ Leisure, Murmansk, 1941
Murmansk, 1942
Liza the Sniper, Novorossiisk, 1943
Women Pilots(‘‘night witches’’), 1943
Life Again, Sevastopol, 1944 May
Executed Russian POWs in Rostov Prison, 1944 May
Sky Over Sevastopol, 1944 May
Outskirts of Vienna, 1945
Murdered Jews in a Synagogue, Budapest, 1945
Jewish Couple, Budapest, 1945
Road to Berlin, 1945 May 1
Victory Flag Over the Reichstag, 1945 May 2
Suicide of a Nazi Family, Vienna, 1945
German Prisoners of War, Berlin, 1945 May
Victory Parade, Red Square, Moscow, 1945 June 24
Marshal Zhukov, Red Square, Moscow, 1945 June 24
Truman and Stalin, Potsdam, 1945 July
Potsdam, 1945 July
Dimitry Shostakovich, 1951
Mstislav Rostropovich, 1951Further Reading
Khaldei, Yevgeny.Von Moskau nach Berlin: Bilder des rus-
sischen Fotografen Jewgeni Chaldej. Berlin: Nicolaische
Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1995, and Berlin: Parthas, 1999.
Nakhimovsky, Alexander and Alice Nakhimovsky.Witness
to History: The Photographs of Yevgeny Khaldei. New
York: Aperture, 1997.CHRIS KILLIP
British
In the television series of the bookAnother Way of
Telling, the artist and writer John Berger begins the
second episode of the series with a discussion of a
photograph of a young skinhead sitting on a brick
wall crying. Berger remarks that it is no accident
that the young man is framed by the bricks in the
photograph; indeed, he states that there is some-
thing in common with what is happening to the
youth and the bricks that surround him. Berger’s
comments point not only to the metaphorical role
of the objects in the photograph but also to the role
of the photograph in telling the story of the indivi-
dual and the place he is in. The photographBoy
Sitting on Wall, Jarrow 1976, is from Chris Killip’s
series In Flagrante, one of the most significant
bodies of photographic work on the north-east of
England, an area of Britain that has periodically
been photographed since the 1920s with the rise in
popularity of the photo-essay through magazines
such asPicture Post.
Born in Douglas on the Isle of Man in 1946,
Killip who is largely self-taught in photography,
began his career as an assistant to the advertising
photographer Adrian Flowers in Chelsea, London,
between 1963 and 1965. After several years work-
ing as a freelance photographer’s assistant in Lon-
don, Killip returned briefly to his hometown on the
Isle of Man between 1969 and 1971 before once
more returning to the British mainland in 1972, this
time to the North of England whose landscape and
people became the subject of his most widely cele-
brated work.KHALDEI, YEVGENY