Фотографии из жизни людей в СССР / Photographs of people's lives in the USSR - 1950s

Фотографии из жизни людей в СССР,
сделанные Семеном Фридляндом
в 1950-х годах

Photographs of people's lives in the USSR,
by Semyon Fridland
1950s

Музыка
И. Тамарин "Старая афиша"

Music:
Tamarin "the Old poster"

Semyon Osipovich Fridland was a Soviet photographer and journalist.
He was born in August 1905 in Kiev., Ukraine. He moved to Moscow in 1925, where he lived until his death in 1964.
In 1925 he began working at Ogonek (The flame), one of the many illustrated magazines owned by his cousin Mikhail Koltsov; in 1932 he was appointed the head of its photography department. Throughout the late 1920s and 1930s, Fridland made his primary living working as a photojournalist not only for Ogonyok and the newspaper Pravda, but also for the Soviet agency Soiuzfoto; yet it was not until 1930 that he received a formal education in the arts at the State Institute of Cinematography.
During the Great Patriotic War , Fridland joined the Sovinformburo (The Soviet Information Bureau). The main task of the Bureau was to compile reports for radio , newspapers and magazines about the situation on the fronts, the work of the rear, and the partisan movement during the fighting against the Nazis...

In the early 1950s. Fridland was appointed as Head of the Photographic Dept. of "Ogonyok.Finding it in a deplorable condition, he took several months to re-organise the department for all concerned. During thius time he travelled frquently across the length and breadth of the Soviet Union, taking " bright, Nostalgic" photographs of the people.
Her is just a small part......