Ten black-and-white photographs - interior and exterior views of the Heichal Shlomo building on King George Street in Jerusalem, by renowned architectural photographer Alfred Bernheim - signed on the back with the photographer's stamp. Jerusalem, late 1950s.
Alfred Bernheim [1885-1974] An Israeli photographer born in Germany. In the early 1930s he studied photography with Walter Haga in Weimar and applied art in Pforzheim. In 1934, following the rise of the Nazi party to power in Germany, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem. He set up a photography lab in his home and made a living from invited photographs to various institutions, especially for Bezalel and the Hebrew University. Most of Bernheim's work focused on creating portraits and architectural photographs. In his early years in Eretz Israel, he also engaged in commercial photography in the style of the "new photography". Bernheim's estate, which includes about 20,000 negatives, is in the collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Same size: 24x16 cm. Very good condition.
