A large-scale album with high quality photographs by the director of the Jewish Agency's photography department, the famous photographer Shmuel Yosef Schweig. [Keren Hayesod, 1950s].
An elegant album with 50 black-and-white photographs depicting the development of the young State of Israel in its early years as captured in the lens of the "Israeli National Photographer's" - Samuel Yosef Schweig. A wide range of high-quality photographs in various fields, some taken in the 1940s and the other in the early 50s, characterize a wide scope of the Israeli and Jewish experience. For example, photographs appear in the subjects: "Immigrant", "Yemeni Child", "Knesset in its Work", "People carry weapons", "Navy march in Jerusalem", "Ruins of the ancient synagogue in Meron", "Occupied Desolation", "Beer-Ora in the Negev", "mortar Factory", "Man of Tomorrow", "New House Under Construction", "Joy of Work", "New Generation", and more. The photographs are all Attached to thick pages with passeparto frames and protected with fragment paper. Each photograph is described in two languages: Hebrew and Spanish. On the front cover of the album is the emblem of the State of Israel. And the word "Israel" is embedded in Hebrew and English on the spine.
Samuel Yosef Schweig [1902-1984]: Born in Galicia, arrived in Israel in 1922 after studying photography in Vienna with Professor Joseph Maria Adar. Schweig excelled in high technical ability in photography, printing and preservation according to the European tradition he practiced. In his photographs, local landscape photography took on new dimensions and man is present in them as an organic part of the environment. Schweig's compositions originate in the landscape photography of Germany and Austria but are adapted to local conditions in the Land of Israel. His photographs express Zionist sentiments combined with the aura of romance and mystery characteristic of the Western view of the "exotic" East at that time. In the 1920s, Schweig became the Chief Photographer in the JNF's propaganda Department, taking thousands of photos. In 1948 he was appointed head of the Jewish Agency's Information Department and was responsible for organizing exhibitions. This was after he had exhibited several exhibitions in London and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.
50 photographs, 12X17 cm. Album: 38 cm. Stains and light peels in cover, slight tears to the spine. Other than that, very good condition.
