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The photomontages that Benor-Kalter began to make in the 1930s were a departure from his earlier straightforward style and allowed him to use photography to create visual metaphors. Here, a…
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Jacob Benor-Kalter
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1929–1939
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Beginning in 1958, Orkin took photographs from the window of her fifteenth-floor apartment overlooking New York City’s Central Park. She wrote that she spent a lot of time waiting “for the clouds to…
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Ruth Orkin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
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Ninio works in a variety of artistic disciplines, including photography. Here, a structure high in the clouded sky suggests the ability to view the world below.
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Moshe Ninio
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1990
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This photograph by Moshe Gross is very much in the tradition of Zionist and Israeli iconography, which favored images stressing the heroic aspects of Zionism and the “new Jews” who were building…
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Moshe Gross
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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For many years, Amiram Erev worked as a photographer for Solel Boneh, the large Israeli construction company founded by the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labor. The company played a key…
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Amiram Erev
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Nof HaGalil, Israel
Date:
1960–1965
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Ben-Dov was the founder of the photography department in the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. This photograph of an art student posing as the biblical Ruth is faithful to the Bezalel mission to…
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Yaacov Ben-Dov
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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Translated by Helen Frenkley.
Contributor:
Nogah Hareuveni
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Kiryat Ono, Israel
Date:
1974
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Kibbutz Netzer Sereni was established by Holocaust survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp. In fact, its original name was Kibbutz Buchenwald. It is now named for Enzo Sereni, an Italian…
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Batia Lichansky
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1965–1968
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The street photographer Garry Winogrand said he was motivated by wanting “to see what the world looks like in photographs.” He didn’t regard his photos as identical with the reality of the scenes he…
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Garry Winogrand
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1969
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Leon Levinstein, widely admired for his street photography, held himself at a distance from the art world and never produced a book of his work. He kept his day job as a graphic designer and went out…
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Leon Levinstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1970