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Lot 593 D

Jewgeni Chaldej - Hermann Göring, Nuremberg

Auction 1222 - overview Cologne
06.06.2023, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €

Jewgeni Chaldej

Hermann Göring, Nuremberg
1946

Gelatin silver print, printed 1990s. 28.9 x 38.8 cm (29.9 x 39.9 cm). Signed in pencil on the verso.

"I wanted to photograph Göring in the boardroom from an unusual perspective. That was forbidden. I communicated with the secretary of the Soviet judge Nikitenko. For a bottle of gin I swapped places with him for a few hours." (Jewgeni Chaldej, in: Volland/Krimmer, op.cit., p. 149)

Provenance

From the photographer to the present owner

Literature

Ernst Volland/Heinz Krimmer (ed.), Jewgeni Chaldej. Der Bedeutende Augenblick, exhib.cat. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Leipzig 2008, ill. p. 149