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Nahal Oz
Boris Carmi
1954
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Boris Carmi was a pioneer of Israeli press photography who documented the early years of the state. Born Boris Vinograd in Moscow, Carmi left Russia in 1930 and studied ethnography at the Sorbonne. There he took an interest in photography, which he pursued professionally after his arrival in Palestine in 1939. During World War II, Carmi was a photographer for the British army; later he worked for the Haganah and, after the War of Independence, for the Israel Defense Forces. Throughout his career, Carmi took photographs for Israeli newspapers and journals that captured periods of turbulence and hope, demonstrating sensitivity toward his subjects. Carmi’s images are central to the collective memory of Israel and have been featured in several exhibitions there, as well as in solo shows in Berlin and Frankfurt.
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This series by Helmar Lerski pictured Jewish soldiers fighting with the British Army during World War II—all in all, about a hundred men and women. All the portraits are in Lerski’s distinctive…
To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
And brings them upward from the flowing deep,
I sing this song, a song to banish sorrow.
For all who love and cherish and desire
The ways of poetry and…