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1912 |
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Born in Warsaw, Poland. Baltermant's father, an officer in the Russian Imperial Army, died in the First World War. Soon after, Baltermnats moved to Moscow with his mother and grew up during the perilous days of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War. |
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1930 |
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With the intention of becoming a teacher, Baldermants studied mathematics at the Moscow State University in the early 1930s. During this time he became increasingly enamoured with photojournalism and began working on small photographic assignments. |
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1939 |
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Whilst teaching at an artillery school in Moscow, Baltermants was called upon by the Russian newspaper, Izvestia, to document the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland. He continued to work for Izvestia, as well as reporting for the Red Army newspaper, Na Razgromvraga, until the end of World War II. |
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1945 |
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After the war and until his death in 1990, Baltermants worked as Staff Photographer, Photo Editor and Editorial Board Member for the publication Ogonyok. |
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Throughout this post World War II era Baltermants provided the most vivid, interesting and comprehensive photographic reports of the Soviet people rediscovering foreign countries, building giant power plants, and the emergence of the Soviet nation into the atomic age. |
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Publications
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1968 |
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Nikolai lives in Moscow: Photographs by Dmitri Baldermants, Hastings House, New York. |
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1971 |
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Glimpses of Chukotka, Planeta, Moscow. |
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1990 |
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Photostroika: New Soviet Photography, Aperture, New York. |
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1996 |
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Faces of a Nation: The Rise and fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991, Fulcrum, New York. |
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1997 |
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Dmitri Baltermants, with an introduction by Paul Harbaugh, Photo Poche, Paris. |
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