Arkady Shaikhet

Arkady Samoylovich Shaikhet (Russian: Аркадий Самойлович Шайхет; 12 September 1898 – 18 November 1959) was a prominent Soviet photojournalist and photographer.[2] In the history of Soviet photography, Shaikhet is known for a type of journalistic photography called "artistic reportage,"[3] and for photographs of industrialization in the 1920s and 1930s.

Arkady Shaikhet
Born
Avrom Shmulevitch[1]

(1898-09-12)12 September 1898
Nikolayev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died18 November 1959(1959-11-18) (aged 61)
Moscow, USSR
NationalityRussian
Known forphotography, photojournalism

His first photographs were published in 1923 and in 1924 he joined the staff of the national magazine Ogonyok. His images were used for their covers from the magazine's first issue. Shaikhet was one of the founders (together with journalist Mikhail Koltsov) of Soviet Photo in 1926. Starting in 1930 he contributed to USSR in Construction, another Soviet journal.[4]

During the Second World War he created a series of images of the Battle of Stalingrad and later of liberation of Kiev, Ukraine.[5]

The Sovfoto agency, which from 1932 distributed Soviet photography in the West, holds examples of his photojournalism.

Exhibitions

2012, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Continuation 1928-1931,[6] Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

References
  1. Schneer, David (1972). Through Soviet Jewish Eyes. Rutgers University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8135-4884-5.
  2. Mrazkova, Daniela and Remes, Vladimir "Early Soviet Photographers." Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 1982, ISBN 0-905836-27-8
  3. Shudakov, Grigory. "Pioneers of Soviet Photography." Thames and Hudson, London, 1983, page 20, ISBN 0-500-54095-0
  4. "Arkady Shaikhet" Art Rodnik, Moscow, 2000, ISBN 5-88896-049-7
  5. Shneer, David. "Through Soviet Jewish eyes. Photography, War, and the Holocaust." Rutgers University Press, 2011, pages 112, 114, 149, ISBN 978-0-8135-4884-5
  6. "Arkadiy Shaikhet: Continuation 1928-1931". Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
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