David Rubinger - Capturing the Truth.

48 p., Ill. Die Texte sind auf Englisch und Hebräisch. Das Exemplar ist in tadellosem Zustand und neuwertig. The texts are in English and Hebrew. The copy is in mint condition and as good as new. - (excerpt:) The photographer, David Rubinger, the Israel Prize laureate for Communication who died last year was one of a small selected group of photographers whose works are etched on local and international memory. His endeavor began at the end of the enlisted "Zionist photography" period that dominated the local photography scene until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The new generation of photographers formulated a freer Israeli Photography, as it was primarily expressed in the Haolam Hazeh weekly. The early decades of the State of Israel were characterized by a collection of photographs spanning two extremes on the human spectrum: on the one hand, a glorified picture of the new state composed of strength, military power, magnificent victories, the liberation of Jerusalem, new construction, the building of kibbutzim and revived Israeli nature; and on the other hand, pictures of the eviction of Arabs in the War of Independence and the occupation after the Six Day War, alongside pictures of new immigrant transit camps, the drainage of Lake Hula, funerals of the fallen soldiers in the Yom Kippur War and more. In those years attempts were made to keep up with what was happening in the field of photography in the Western world, through contests and imported exhibitions - among them the international exhibition The Family of Man at the Tel Aviv Museum (1958) […].