Yevgeny Khaldei

Why this artist matters now

Yevgeny Khaldei was a Soviet photojournalist whose black and white photographs documented military campaigns and industrial development from the 1930s through the Cold War. His 1945 image of the Soviet flag raised over the Reichstag in Berlin became the definitive symbol of Soviet victory and remains his most widely circulated work. Khaldei combined frontline reportage with formal compositional precision, creating a body of work that served simultaneously as propaganda and historical record of wartime combat, post-war reconstruction, and state-sanctioned industrial subjects.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago