Twice fired from Soviet publications for being Jewish, he lived out his retirement anonymously in a small Moscow apartment. In 1990, as the Soviet’s communist regime crumbled, Western collectors began combing Eastern Europe for photographs produced behind the Iron Curtain. Major exhibitions followed for Khaldei’s work.

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