"He bought the images depicting women from the Reichsarbeitsdienst, a female labour force that served the Nazi Reich, from a German seller online. It is the latest addition to a burgeoning collection of about 35,000 negatives from the second world war that the Ukrainian-Russian photojournalist and publisher has been amassing since 2016."
"He only buys negatives taken by either amateur or professional photographers everywhere from the Soviet Union to the United States to ensure he is getting the most unadulterated images of the war. Negatives are photographic truths that make it difficult to distort history."
"Mostly he only knows what he has bought once he has flattened and scanned the negatives, comparing his purchases to buying a black cat in a black sack."
Arthur Bondar, a Ukrainian-Russian photojournalist, has been collecting approximately 35,000 World War II negatives since 2016. He carefully examines these small photographic negatives under light, identifying details like military insignia and ship names that guide his research. Bondar purchases negatives from amateur and professional photographers across multiple countries, including the Soviet Union and United States, to obtain authentic wartime images. He deliberately avoids printed photographs, which may have been manipulated through techniques like Soviet military collages combining multiple images. Negatives serve as photographic truths that resist historical distortion, making them invaluable primary sources for accurate documentation of the war.
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