Witness to history, the photographs of Yevgeny Khaldei Biographical essay by Alexander and Alice Nakhimovsky by Khaldei, Yevgeny, Alexander Nakhimovsky and Alice Nakhimovsky - 1997

UK: Aperture, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.

Aperture Foundation, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Khaldei, Yevgeny. First printing of the stated first edition. Printed and bound in Hong Kong. 12.25 x 9.25 inches. Black paper hardboards, with dark orange lettering to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. 94 numbered pages, with numerous B&W photo-plates, some full-page and some double-page. A very clean book, inside and out. Either unread or quite gently read. In a powerfully illustrated B&W dust jacket. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good Plus DJ. 1 lb. 15 oz. weight. The photography career of the self-taught Yevgeny Khaldei [1917-1997] spanned more than half a century. His photographs, especially those of WWII, obtained an iconographic power. This book highlights his combat photography on the Eastern Front during WWII. From the library of Marshall Winokur [1942-2022]. He was a recognized collector of books and postcards on… Read More

NY: Aperture, 1997. (USA) 1st printing. No msrkings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards, 96pp, B&W photos. This is the first publiction to birng Khaddei's photographs of life in the Soviet Union and of World War II to a Western audience. From the jacket: One of the greatest Soviet treasures to come to light after the end of the cold war is the work of the photographer Yevgeny Khaldei. A staff photographer for the Soviet news agency TASS during World War II, Khaldei produced a tremendous and valuable archive of images. He covered every day of the conflict from the German invasion of the USSR in 1941 to the fall of Berlin in 1945, where he raced to the roof of the burning Reichstag to take his famous photograph of a soldier hoisting the Soviet flag. His unflinching approach, and the moving images that resulted, have led to comparisons with the work of Robert Capa. (2.5 JM HOZ 403/b3. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Hardback. Very Good.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Aperture, 1997 hardback book and dust jacket in near fine condition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Aperture. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Publisher postcard laid in. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1997.

Aperture. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!