On January 22, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Babel Books Berlin will host a presentation of an unknown military archive and photo book by Olga Ignatovich. In the Shadow of Big Brother, based on recently discovered frontline negatives by one of seven female photojournalists who photographed World War II from the Soviet Union's perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The photo book presents the legacy of Olga Ignatovich, whose war photographs long remained in the shadow of her older brother, Boris Ignatovich, a classic of Soviet photography. Among the works presented are the liberation of Rzhev and Poland, the Red Army's advance to the West, and the liberation of Nazi death camps, including Majdanek and Auschwitz. Photographs taken by Ignatovich in Auschwitz were used in the Nuremberg trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The archive and book are presented by photographer, visual artist, and collector Arthur Bondar, founder of the WWII\/ABC collection, which includes tens of thousands of previously unknown visual testimonies from World War II. His work with archives combines documentary and artistic approaches and offers a new, more personal perspective on history and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n