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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…
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…
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…
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.
Paul Goldman was notable for keeping his distance from his subjects, perhaps as a show of respect. He photographed many of Israel’s early leaders. Here, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister…
Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
Nahal Oz, located in the Negev close to the border of the Gaza strip, was founded in 1951 as Israel’s first Nahal settlement. These were established by soldiers to provide a first line of defense…
