MOSCOW: A Russian museum that was due to host an exhibition of World War II images by photographic greats such as Robert Capa has unexpectedly closed just before the show was due to open, reportedly on Moscow’s orders.
Pictures chosen by the curators included classics like Capa’s images of the D-Day landings and Alfred Eisenstaedt’s VJ Day shot of a sailor kissing a woman in New York’s Times Square.
But the six-week exhibition at the Metenkov House Museum in Yekaterinburg, a city in the Russian Urals, appears to be the latest casualty in the standoff between Russia and the West over the …read more
Source: theSun
