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Rudi Weissenstein (1910-1992) was the most prominent chronicler of everyday life in the young state of Israel, and his photographs are essential to understanding the country's social history. Born in what is now the Czech Republic, Weissenstein studied photography in Vienna. He worked as a press photographer before emigrating to Palestine in 1936 where he married Miriam Arnstein (1913-2011). They took over the Pri-Or PhotoHouse in Tel Aviv in 1940 and developed it into a renowned cultural institution. Weissenstein received numerous awards for his work, including the first prize at the Moscow International Photography Exhibition. The PhotoHouse is now run by Weissenstein's grandson, Ben Peter, and holds more than one million negatives. The archive is being reborn, and as it celebrates its 80th anniversary, many of its highlights are being published here for the first time.

Title Rudi : discovering the Weissenstein Archive / photographer, Rudi Weissenstein
text, Amir Kliger
edited by Anna-Patricia Kahn, Ben Peter & Michal Amram
interview with Ben Peter, Anna-Patricia Kahn/CLAIR
English translation, Ruth Almog.
Contributors Kahn, Anna-Patricia, 1959- (editor interviewer)
Peter, Ben (editor interviewee)
Amram, Michal (editor)
Weissenstein, Rudi, 1910-1992.
Publisher Heidelberg : Kehrer Verlag
Creation Date [2016]
Notes Chiefly illustrated.
Extent 157 pages : illustrations, portraits
29 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 990040582760205171

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