Artist
Evgeny  Khaldei (Russian, 1917 -1977)

Title
Victory Flag over Reichstag, Berlin

date
1945

medium
Gelatin Silver Print

size
17-1/4 x 23-5/8 in.

credit line
Gift of the Union of Journalists of the U.S.S.R., through the Embassy of the U.S.S.R.

Accession Number
1991.24.5

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Victory Flag over Reichstag, Berlin
Evgeny  Khaldei (Russian, 1917 -1977)

All photographs are constructed images. They are not unbiased transcriptions of reality but are manipulated both by technique and by the context in which they are viewed. This concept is particularly relevant to pictures of war. Two photographs made thirty years apart and for different reasons, one by Soviet documentarian Yevgeny Khaldei and the other by American artist David Levinthal, speak eloquently to these issues. . . .

- Stuart Alexander, Independent Curator and Scholar

Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

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