Ephraim Ilani - 29 black-and-white photographs documenting Hebrew industry in the cities of the country. Israel, 1950s. Half of them are signed with the ink stamps of the photographer Ephraim (Ephram) Ilani.
Among the photographs: laying facilities at the Dead Sea, preparing infrastructure for plumbing in Kiryat Gat, Drilling rigs in the city of Arad, experimental drilling in Timna mines, works in the Haifa port, road extensions leading to Jerusalem, works in Nahal Kishon, works in Acre, development works in the Galilee and Negev, power station in the south, Arab workers Alongside British workers in Kunetra, and more.
14 of the photographs are signed with ink stamps of photographer Ephraim (Ephraim) Ilani. Some are depicted on their backs in handwriting.
Ephraim Ilani is one of the senior press photographers in Eretz Israel, and in the State of Israel. Worked as a press photographer for more than 40 years. Born in 1910 in Stuttgart, Germany, he worked as a teenager in the Agfa camera factory in Munich. In 1933 he was forced to join the Nazi party to keep his job, while concealing the fact of being a Jew. A year later, after being identified, he emigrated to Palestine at the age of 24, learned Hebrew and joined the Haganah, which ordered the talented photographer to enlist in the British Mandate Police and work there as an undercover agent. There he got his first camera and began studying photography. He captured the faces of immigrants released from detention camps in Cyprus and documented soldiers in training in the 1960s. He covered the opening of power stations and port development on the shoreline. In 1946, the Haganah asked him to document many of the events that took place prior to Israel's independence. Ilani documented the riots following the approval of the UN partition plan in December 1947. He also photographed the explosion on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem in 1948 and in the Jewish Agency building. After the establishment of the state, Ilani worked as a press photographer for United Peres International. His photographs have appeared on the covers of magazines such as "Look" and "Life". In 1951 he became the official photographer for the Bonds, and began photographing the development of the country. He turned his lens to factory workers and farmers, road and mining activities. Ilani was killed in 1999, on Yom Kippur, at the age of 89. A car hit him as he was crossing the road at a crosswalk after the prayers.
Same size: 25x20 cm. Very good condition.
