This post is linked
to Maria’s Postcards for the Weekend. If
you would like to see other folk’s posts on this subject please visit Maria’s
blog and follow the links. They are always
well worth viewing.
Being an
ex-librarian I love cards that have anything to do with books and reading. Because my friends know this I am fortunate
to get plenty of them. I haven’t scanned
any cards in recently (smacked wrist!) but here are a couple I haven’t shown before.
2891 – From Katya
and Marina in Ukraine.
They always send
lovely stamps – these are Ukrainian fairy tales.
4128 – from Susanne
in Germany
4166 – Also from Susanne. This photo is by Yevgeny Anan'evich Khaldei
(23 March [O.S. 10 March] 1917 – 6 October 1997).
Khaldei was a Red Army photographer, best known
for his World War II photograph of a Soviet soldier Raising a flag over the
Reichstag, in Berlin, capital of the vanquished Nazi Germany. Khaldei was born to
a Jewish family in Yuzovka (now Donetsk, Ukraine) and was obsessed with
photography since childhood, having built his first childhood camera with his
grandmother's eyeglasses. He started working with the Soviet press agency TASS
at the age of nineteen as a photographer.
His father and three of his four sisters were murdered by the Nazis
during the war.
In 1945 he
persuaded his uncle to create a large Soviet flag after seeing Joe Rosenthal's
photo of the flag raising at Iwo Jima while the Soviet army closed in on Berlin
and took it with him to Berlin for the Reichstag shot. After the War Khaldei continued to
photograph, now working as a freelance photographer for Soviet newspapers, and
focused on capturing scenes of everyday life. Khaldei's international fame
dates from the 1990s, when exhibitions of his photographs began to be held in
the West. This photo is entitled “Rest”.
