title: Introduction
abstract: The introduction describes how the author first learned about <italic>Grief</italic> from a local photography collector, whom Shneer learned played a central role in exposing the Soviet photographer Dmitri Baltermants and the photograph to the global art market. The collector assumed that, given its aesthetics, the photograph was a postbattle image taken at Kerch. Only through painstaking research did Shneer learn that <italic>Grief</italic> was one of the first photographs documenting the liber
journal: Grief