Dmitri Baltermants

Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality

Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality

Dmitri Baltermants (1912–1990) was one of the most important Soviet photojournalists at mid-century. His humanizing, often dramatic compositions of World War II and its aftermath affected viewers in the USSR and around the world. Baltermants graduated from the Math and Mechanics School at Moscow State University, with plans of teaching mathematics at the Higher Military Academy. Life drastically changed in…