Valuing Grief
Journal: Grief
Year: 2020

This chapter traces Baltermants’s entry into the art photography market. In the mid-1960s, he had his first New York City exhibition alongside other well-known photojournalists, including Robert Doisneau and Irving Penn. From there his work was included in a Metropolitan Museum show, and he was often the lone Soviet representative in major photography shows. In the 1970s, Baltermants began giving <italic>Grief</italic> visual context by exhibiting other images taken that same wartime day in Kerc