Dmitri Baltermanz

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Dmitri Baltermanz Russian Дмитрий Николаевич Бальтерманц (born Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Stolowitzky May 12, 1912 in Warsaw , Russian Empire ; died June 11, 1990 in Moscow ) was a Soviet photojournalist.

Life

Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Stolowitzky's parents divorced soon after his birth, his father was a Russian officer and died in World War I. His mother remarried and he was given the new family name Baltermanz. From 1915 he lived in Moscow. Baltermanz studied mathematics and in 1939 became a lecturer in mathematics at the military academy. In the same year he became a photo reporter for the Izvestia newspaper . During the Second World War he was used as a war correspondent for the Red Army from 1941 to 1945. At the end of 1942 he was sentenced to serve in a punitive battalion for insubordination , was wounded and was then allowed to work again for an army newspaper. After the war ended, Baltermanz worked as a photo journalist for the Ogonjok magazine . In the 1960s he became a senior editor there. Baltermanz was accredited for major social and political events in the Soviet Union, such as state visits. Most recently, he reported on Mikhail Gorbachev's meeting with Ronald Reagan at the Geneva summit in 1985 . He has also had exhibitions abroad and was appointed to the board of the World Press Photo organization.

For the first world exhibition of photography in 1964 under the title What is man , the organizers of the exhibition selected his photo Leid (Gorje). The black-and-white photograph shows dead people lying scattered in a desolate, muddy landscape under a heavy, cloudy sky, victims of a massacre rescued from an anti-tank ditch by the German occupiers before they retreated from the city of Kerch . Women look for relatives among the dead. The sky was changed by photomontage by Baltermanz. The photo received the audience award at the exhibition, which was shown in several European cities. In 1975 Baltermanz also showed other photos from the series at an exhibition in Moscow and created an illustrated book under the title That’s the way it was .

Photo volumes (selection)

  • Dmitri Baltermanz: with 94 pictures and an introduction by Wassili Peskow . Leipzig: Fotokinoverlag, 1981
  • Vstreča s Čukotkoj = Glimpses of Chukotka = encounter with Chukotka . Text by Jurij Rytchéu . Text in Russian, English and German. Moscow: Planeta, 1971
  • Dom-muzej VI Lenina v. Gorkach . With German picture explanations. Moscow: Pravda, 1967
  • Nikolai from Moscow . Translation from English Helga Rönnau. Hamburg: Oetinger, 1966
  • Eléna Missalandi: Dmitri Baltermants . Texts Olga Sviblova. Maison Européenne de la Photographie Moscow. Exhibition Paris 2005. ISBN 5-93977-017-7
  • Faces of a nation: the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 . Text Theodore H. Von Laue, Angela Von Laue. Introduction by Tatiana Baltermants. Golden: Fulcrum, 1996 ISBN 978-1-55591-262-8

literature

  • Peter Jahn : Dmitri Baltermanz 'photo of the rescue of murdered people on Kerch 1942 , in: Gerhard Paul : The Century of Pictures. Picture atlas . Volume 1. 1900 to 1949 . Göttingen: V&R, 2009, pp. 590–597

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo, in: Karl Pawek (Ed.): World Exhibition of Photography. 555 photos by 264 photographers from 30 countries on the topic: What is man? Hamburg: Henri Nannen, 1964 No. 24, p. 44
  2. ↑ Copyright protected photo available at: SK Josefsberg Studio ( Memento from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Baltermanz, Dmitri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1990
Place of death Moscow