Feb 19, 2002 - Sale 1925

Sale 1925 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 4,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ZELMA, GEORGI<>
Battle in the streets, Stalingrad. Silver print, 15½x23¼ inches, titled and dated with the photographer's credit in Cyrillic, in ink, in on verso. 1942

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Georgi Zelma's photographs of the mines and factories in the Donbass region, the collective farms in the Tula province, and the Soviet Military maeuvers in the Black Sea region were published in Pravda Vostoka, USSR in Construction, and others. (Truth of the East). During World War II, Zelma was a correspondent for Izvestia. He spent the severe winter of 1942-43 in Stalingrad photographing the devastation of the city.<