Nahalat Binyamin Street, Tel Aviv

Rudi Weissenstein

1954

Aerial photograph of city intersection with some cars, bicycles, and people.
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Rudi Weissenstein

1910–1992

Czech-born photojournalist Rudi Weissenstein was important to both the development and the preservation of Israel’s photographic history. Born Shimon Rudolph Weissenstein, he studied photography in Vienna before moving to Tel Aviv in 1936. He was a skilled conservationist with expertise in preserving photographic negatives, and after opening the studio Pri-Or Photo House with his wife, Miriam (b. Arnstein), the couple created and maintained an extensive archive of more than one million negatives documenting pivotal historic moments from the 1930s onward. The Photo House archive remains active to this day and was the subject of an award-winning 2012 documentary, Life in Stills.

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