Arkadi Samoilowitsch Sheikhet
Arkadi Samoilowitsch Shaichet , Russian Аркадий Самойлович Шайхет (* 1898 in Nikolajew ; † November 18, 1959 in Moscow ) was a Soviet photographer.
Life
Sheikhet was a retoucher in a Moscow portrait studio from 1922 , and from 1924 a photo reporter for the magazine Ogonyok . In 1928 he received the first official award. In the 1930s he worked as a photojournalist for USSR in construction . In 1931 he created the photo report 24 hours in the life of the Filippow family (together with Max Alpert , Lev Mescheritschew and Solomon Tules ).
During the German-Soviet War Arkady Sheikhet was the front correspondent for Frontowaja illjustrazia . He took over 10,000 war photographs and was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War .
literature
- G. Chudakov: 20 Soviet Photographers 1917–1940. Fiolet & Draaijer Interphoto, Amsterdam 1990. ISBN 90-9003276-2
- Helena Holzberger: Arkadij Šaichet, in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Vol. 100, Berlin, 2018, pp. 409–410.
Web links
Commons : Arkady Shaikhet - collection of images, videos and audio files
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sheikhet, Arkady Samoyovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шайхет, Аркадий Самойлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nikolayev |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1959 |
| Place of death | Moscow |