Dmitri Georgievich Debabov

Dmitri Georgijewitsch Debabow ( Russian Дмитрий Георгиевич Дебабов ; * 1901 ; † 1949 ) was a Soviet photographer . He is considered an important photo journalist in the Soviet Union.

life and work

Debabow initially trained as a lathe operator in a metal processing company. In the early 1920s he was active in a workers' theater and finally turned to painting. He then studied theater and film with Eisenstein at the Central Institute for Film (VGIK). From 1926 he worked as a photo reporter for Izvestia and Komsomolskaya Pravda . From the mid-1930s he went on extensive reporting trips, took pictures of mines or factories, etc. a. from the construction of the Magnitogorsk metallurgical plant . He also traveled the Arctic and followed the great icebreakers ; 1934–37 series of images about whaling were created. In 1936/37 he played a major role in the Stroim magazine designed by Alexander Schitomirski . In 1949 he died while on a trip to Siberia.

Dmitri Debabow wrote a diary and published a book of his collected photographs (taken with my Leica ).

literature

• G. Chudakov: 20 Soviet Photographers 1917–1940. Fiolet & Draaijer Interphoto, Amsterdam 1990. ISBN 90-9003276-2
• Hans-Michael Koetzle: Photographers AZ . Taschen Germany, 2015 ISBN 978-3-8365-5433-6