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Arkady Shaikhet

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| image = Arkady Samoylovich Shaikhet.jpg

| birth_name = Avrom Shmulevitch{{cite book |last1=Schneer |first1=David |title=Through Soviet Jewish Eyes |date=1972 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-4884-5 |page=29}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|09|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Nikolayev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|11|18|1898|9|9|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, USSR

| nationality = Russian

| field = photography, photojournalism

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Arkady Samoylovich Shaikhet ({{langx|ru| Аркадий Самойлович Шайхет}}; 12 September 1898 {{endash}} 18 November 1959) was a prominent Soviet photojournalist and photographer.Mrazkova, Daniela and Remes, Vladimir "Early Soviet Photographers." Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 1982, {{ISBN|0-905836-27-8}} In the history of Soviet photography, Shaikhet is known for a type of journalistic photography called "artistic reportage,"Shudakov, Grigory. "Pioneers of Soviet Photography." Thames and Hudson, London, 1983, page 20, {{ISBN|0-500-54095-0}} and for photographs of industrialization in the 1920s and 1930s.

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."Arkady Shaikhet" Art Rodnik, Moscow, 2000, {{ISBN|5-88896-049-7}}

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

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

Biography

Born on August 28 (September 9), 1898 in Mykolajiv (now Ukraine) into a poor Jewish family: his father sold draft beer, his mother ran a small sewing workshop.

Graduated from 4th grade of primary school. He was unable to enter the gymnasium due to the educational qualifications for his father that were formed in those years, so he began working as a mechanic’s assistant at the Nikolaev Shipyard.

During the Civil War he served in the Red Army in a brass band. During his service he suffered from severe typhus with heart complications.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2012, Arkadiy Shaikhet, Continuation 1928-1931,{{cite web|url=http://mamm-mdf.ru/en/exhibitions/continuation-19281931/|title=Arkadiy Shaikhet: Continuation 1928-1931|publisher=Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow}} Multimedia Art Museum, MoscowТолстова А. {{cite web|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1929490?stamp=634720227973239869|title=Политически грамотный монтаж|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305025226/http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1929490?stamp=634720227973239869|archivedate=2016-03-05|accessdate=2012-05-07}} // Коммерсантъ. — 2012. — 5 мая.
  • 2014 — “Arkady Shaikhet. Photographs 1932-1941" Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
  • 11.III—10.IV.2016 — “Arkady Shaikhet. 1945-1959. Episode 4” Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.[http://www.mamm-mdf.ru/exhibitions/as-4/ Аркадий Шайхет. 1945—1959. Эпизод 4-й. Мультимедиа Арт Музей, Москва]

References

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External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20111215205207/http://www.nailyaalexandergallery.com/exhibition/arkady-shaikhet Arkady Shaykhet photographs]
  • {{cite web|url=http://curtain.ng.ru/printed/plot/2000-09-22/7_mystics.html|title=БОЛЬШЕВИСТСКАЯ МИСТИКА СВЕТА: Аркадий Шайхет в Музее личных коллекций|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050524123017/http://curtain.ng.ru/printed/plot/2000-09-22/7_mystics.html|archivedate=2005-05-24|accessdate=2005-04-08}}

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Category:1898 births

Category:1959 deaths

Category:Russian Jews

Category:War photographers

Category:Soviet photographers