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Friday, October 17, 1997 | return to: obituaries
Famed photographer, 80, dies
by Yevgeny Khaldei, a Russian photojournalist for more than 50 years, died Oct. 6 in Moscow at age 80., Born in the year of the Russian Revolution, he constantly struggled with the tension between the quest for truth and the Soviet
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Twice fired from Soviet publications for being Jewish, he lived out his retirement anonymously in a small Moscow apartment. In 1990, as the Soviet's communist regime crumbled, Western collectors began combing Eastern Europe for photographs produced behind the Iron Curtain. Major exhibitions followed for Khaldei's work.
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