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Dmitri Baltermants

Overview

Dmitri Baltermants (May 13, 1912 – 1990) was a prominent Soviet photojournalist. He was born in Warsaw, Poland. His father served in the Imperial Russian Army and was killed in the First World War. Baltermants graduated from the Moscow State University to become a math teacher in a Military Academy, but fell in love with photography and began a career in the field of photojournalism in 1939. He was an official Kremlin photographer, worked for the daily Izvestia and was picture editor of the popular magazine Ogonyok. During World War II, Baltermants covered the battle of Stalingrad, and the battles on of the Red Army in Russia and Ukraine. He was twice wounded. Just like his fellow photographers covering the Red Army during the war, Baltermants’ images were always censored by Soviet authorities in order to select only the ones that reflected on the positive sides of service in order to help boost morale. Some of his most captivating photos were suppressed, and became public much later, in the 1960s. One of the more famous images, called “Grief”, depicts a 1942 Nazi massacre of Jews in the Crimean city of Kerch. It shows the grief of village women as they search for the bodies of their loved ones. A powerful oversaturated sky above, burnt in during the printing of the photo, makes the image even more dramatic. This Image was used on the cover of the Dir En Grey album, The Marrow of a Bone.

Featured Exhibitions

  • Collected Works: 20th Anniversary Exhibition

    07/03 — 26/04/14

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Katyushas firing a Volley, 1943
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s, unique print
9 x 22.8 in. (23 x 58 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitry Baltermants-Prisoner of war marching through Moscow
Dmitri Baltermants

German Prisoners of War marching through Moscow, 1944
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
7.9 x 11 in. (20 x 28 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
         
Dmitri Baltermants

Refugees, 1942
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
10.2 x 15 in. (26 x 38 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

War Prisoners, 1943
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
7.9 x 11.4 in. (20 x 29 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

War-time road, 1941
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
11 x 15.7 in. (28 x 40 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Romanian War Prisoners, 1942
Gelatin silver print, unique print
7.9 x 11.4 in. (20 x 29 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Halt during the March, 1945
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
10.2 x 15.4 in. (26 x 39 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Night Battle, 1942
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s, unique print
16 x 23.2 in. (41 x 59 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

War Prisoners after Stalingrad’s Battle, 1942
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s, unique print
7.5 x 22.4 in. (19 x 57 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Protecting the harvest, 1941
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s, unique print
10.2 x 15 in. (26 x 38 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Parade on Red Square, 1941
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s, unique print
9.8 x 15.7 in. (25 x 40 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Following the Tank Attack
Gelatin silver print, unique print
7.5 x 11.4 in. (19 x 29 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Soviet Troops on the way to Stalingrad, 1942
Gelatin silver print, printed 1950s
5.9 x 20.5 in. (15 x 52 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Close Combat, 1943
Gelatin silver print, unique print
10.2 x 14.6 in. (26 x 37 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Forward!, 1943
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s, unique print
10.2 x 14.2 in. (26 x 36 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

On the Roads of Germany, 1945
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s, unique print
5 x 11.4 in. (13 x 29 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Battle for a Village, 1941
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
11.4 x 15.7 in. (29 x 40 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Commander of Artillery, 1942
Gelatin silver print, unique print
9 x 10.6 in. (23 x 27 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Soldiers with binoculars
Gelatin silver print, unique print
12.6 x 19.3 in. (32 x 49 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Attack, 1941
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
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Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Grief, Ukraine, 1942
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
11.4 x 15.4 in. (29 x 39 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Playing Tchaikovski, 1945
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
11.4 x 15.4 in. (29 x 39 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Barbed Wire
Gelatin silver print, unique print
11 x 11.4 in. (28 x 29 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Red Square, 1947
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s
10.2 x 11 in. (26 x 28 cm)

Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants

Near Stalingrad, 1941
Gelatin silver print
6.3 x 11 in. (16 x 28 cm)

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