Exhibitions: Photo exhibition of Dmitry Baltermants opened in Moscow

July 10, at the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM) opened the vernisage of the classic of the Soviet photograph, Dmitry Baltermants, dedicated to the 110th anniversary of his birth.

The exposition consists of 200 black and white and color photographs. Dmitry Baltermants made his photos of the defense of Moscow and the battle of Stalingrad during the World War II. Starting from 1941 D. Baltermants was a front-line photographer of the newspaper "Izvestia". One of the most famous works of the photographer is a photo "Sorrow", made in 1942, which depicts a woman, searching for the bodies of her loved ones in the liberated Kerch. In 1960 this work brought the author an international fame, but in the USSR for the first time this picture was printed only in 1975.

After returning from the front, Dmitry Baltermants unsuccessfully was looking for a job for a long time, but eventually was accepted into the staff of the magazine "Spark". In 1965 he was the head of a photo department of the publication and has worked in the "Spark" to the end of his life.

Dmitry Baltermants is one of the few photographers, recognized outside the USSR.