Creator Bio
Jacob Benor-Kalter
1897–1969
Jacob Benor-Kalter was a man of many talents: photographer, graphic artist, architect, publisher, and cinema-house entrepreneur. Born in Poland, he trained as an engineer there and made aliyah in 1921. In 1926, the Pro-Jerusalem Society, a project of Sir Ronald Storrs, published an album of his Jerusalem photogravures that was widely distributed in London. In the early 1930s, he published an album of Tel Aviv photographs that included, unusually for the time, a number of photomontages, such as this one of a policeman towering over the traffic of a Tel Aviv street.
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A Jewish Policeman
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…