Baltermants, Dmitri.

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Description

'The Fisher' and 'English Loader'. Two Studies. 1972, printed later

Silver Prints (300 x 235mm. & 293 x 185mm.), each signed and titled by the photographer in ink on the reverse

Provenance

Gift of the photographer to Colin Osman. Acquired from Osman's collection by the present owner.

Literature

T.H. Von Laue & A. Von Laue, Faces of a Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991; Photographs by Dmitri Baltermants (Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum, 1996), another print of 'The Fisher', entitled 'Chukotsk Fisherman', illustrated p. 246.

Catalogue Note

"The federation of Russia comprises more than eighty ethnic groups spread across Europe and Asia. The Chukotsk, from the northeast, are relatives of the Inuit people of North America, who live largely in the northern arctic areas around the Bering Sea. These people remain to this day an indigenous group living mostly as they have lived in the past" (Von Laue, p. 244).