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Steelworker - Moscow

Photograph

Maker: Baltermants, Dmitri

Date Made: May 1953
Country: Soviet Union

Materials: gelatin silver print
Measurements: 5 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 11.43 cm

Description

Photograph of smiling woman sitting on a steel beam on top of the Hotel Ukraine looking over the city. She is holding what looks like a welding tool and has a welding mask pulled up on her head. This is a variant view of the image illustrated in Faces Of A Nation, p. 172. The caption for the image reads: “One of the major guidelines of the Socialist Realism was that workers had to be portrayed enjoying great physical labors, not only with success but with happiness as well, like this worker. Another of Baltermants’ photographs, showing a steelworker with beads of sweat rolling down his face, was censored, as it showed work to be a difficult and trying task.”

Accession Number: 2024.081.002

Credit Line: Gift of Susan and G. Ray Hawkins

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