(b ?Moscow, 1912). Russian photographer. In the 1930s he was interested in Pictorial photography, but he made his name as a war photographer in World War II, gaining a reputation for photographing ‘decisive moments’ and producing a number of dramatic images, for example Death of a Soldier (early 1940s; see Morozov, p. 235), a picture of a soldier at the point of being fatally wounded, which later became famous. As a professional photojournalist working for Sovetskiy Soyuz from the 1950s, he made a major contribution towards the development of the thoughtful photo-essay, particularly regarding the extended portrait or essay concerning an individual, for example the series Eight Questions to Gennady Vinogradov (published Sovetskiy Soyuz, 1972), which was constructed like an interview, the photographs representing visual translations of the answers given by the subject.