What achievements did the Soviet Kappa make in the field of photography?

1965, an Italian critic saw a photo entitled "Sorrow" at a photo exhibition entitled "What is Man" commemorating the 20th anniversary of the victory of the anti-fascist war and praised its author: "It's really the Kappa of the Soviet Union!" .

Since then, the author of this photo, Dmitry? The name of Baltermants (19 12 ~) spread all over the world overnight.

Baltmans was born in Warsaw and moved to Moscow with his family when he was two years old. 1936, he bought a "Fred" camera and began to teach himself photography. His first work, Portrait of a Female Pilot, was published in the famous Spark magazine. From 65438 to 0939, he started his career as a full-time photojournalist in Izvestia.

194 1 year, at the beginning of the great patriotic war of the former Soviet Union, Baltmans resolutely went to the front until it conquered Berlin in 1945. He filmed the battles of Moscow and Sevastopol, interviewed the battle of Stalingrad and recorded the recovery of the southern territory of the former Soviet Union and the liberation of Poland. ...

Barthelms' most famous battlefield photography works are Attack and Sorrow.

Attack was shot at 194 1. In the picture, the Soviet Red Army soldiers are crossing the trenches and launching a fierce attack on the German fascist army. Baltmans crouched in the trench to shoot, and the slightly inclined angle and the pure background of the sky highlighted the image of the Red Army soldiers. At the same time, the dynamic effect produced by the slow shutter emphasizes this fierce momentum. After the publication of this famous battlefield photography, it was criticized because the soldiers in the foreground only photographed "half a person" and thought it did not conform to socialist realism.

Sadness is a series of photos. The photos reveal the crimes committed by the Germans when they left Kachi: on the muddy ground covered with dark clouds, the bodies of Soviet civilians were scattered, and many people were looking for identification of their dead relatives. Barthelms' lens has been tracking an old woman wearing a white scarf. When she finally found the cruel fact that she didn't want to see from the wilderness where the bodies were everywhere, he pressed the shutter. This photo records the great grief of the old woman when she was disappointed and reveals the cruelty of the war. Referring to this group of photos, Baltmans said: Sadness is the whole meaning of war. Just like everything in that scene-war is sad.

However, his photos full of tragic feelings did not spread immediately. Because the Soviet newspapers at that time were worried that the publication of these photos showing the cruel scenes of war would affect the confidence of front-line soldiers and the rear. For this reason, this set of photos reveals the cruelty of war and strongly expresses human feelings. They slept in Baltermants' data package for 23 years, and it was not until 1965 that they were first published in Spark magazine.

Robert? Kappa's younger brother, Cornell, founder of new york International Photography Center? Kappa once spoke highly of Baltmans: Dmitry? Baltermants, an admirable colleague and a combat photographer of the Soviet army, is a brave man. His greatest wish, in his own words, is to be called "Kappa of Soviet photography".

1987, Baltmans was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of WPP celebrated by the World Press Photo Foundation.

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