Israeli Beatniks, Night Club

Paul Schutzer

1960

Photograph of several people socializing, including someone with accordian, three figures dancing, and a man with his arm around a woman and kissing her cheek in the foreground.
In this photograph of Israeli beatniks in a night club, Paul Schutzer captured a different side of Israeli life from that usually portrayed in the Israeli and international media. His partying Israelis are far from the stereotyped images of tough kibbutzniks and soldiers that were usually published. Over the course of his tragically short career, Schutzer took many such informal and intimate photographs.

Credits

Paul Schutzer / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 9.

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Creator Bio

Paul Schutzer

1930–1967

Paul Schutzer was an American photojournalist who worked for Life magazine, chronicling historic events within the United States and abroad. Schutzer began experimenting with photography at age ten, and then studied painting and law before dedicating himself to photography in 1956 as part of the Life office in Washington, D.C. Over the course of his brief career, Schutzer photographed such important figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, and Fidel Castro. He documented an impressive array of historic events, including the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Algerian War, a major earthquake in Iran, and the Vietnam War. Schutzer’s life and career were tragically cut short by the photographer’s premature death while covering the Six-Day War.

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