Saturday 26 November 2016

Museum and Libraries

This post is linked to Maria’s Postcards for the Weekend.  If you would like to see other folk’s posts on this subject - museum/university/library - please visit Maria’s blog and follow the links.  They are always well worth viewing.

0043 - from a postcrosser



1533 - from Katya in Ukraine


1588 - From Martine in Corsica



1658 - From Irina in Bulgaria



1848 - from Danielle in Nebraska



1542 - from Susanne in Germany



4076 - From Renate in Austria who has sent me some lovely library cards over the years.



2184 - from Susanne again who has sent me some beautiful library cards


Sunday 20 November 2016

Reading and Books

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”.