Auction 016 Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Aug 14, 2018 (your local time)
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LOT 117:

Collection of Press Photographs – Tel Aviv, 1960s

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Collection of Press Photographs – Tel Aviv, 1960s
34 press photographs depicting the various faces of Tel Aviv, by Assaf Kutin, Paul Goldman, Hans Finn and other photographers. Tel Aviv, 1960s.
The photographs focus on a variety of subjects: sanitation, markets and trade, transportation, and more. They document sanitation hazards, development works, buyers and sellers in the Carmel Market and in the wholesale market; the Neve Tzedek and Hatikva neighborhoods, Dizengoff St., Yehuda HaLevi St., Carlebach St., construction of Migdal Shalom, Elu Metziot Alley (a piece of paper designed like a street sign with the name of the alley is pasted unto the photo), wagon-drivers protesting at the Malchei Yisrael Square, Independence Park in Tel Aviv, etc. Most of the photographs are titled and dated on verso and stamped with the photographers' stamps: Assaf Kutin, Paul Goldman, Hans Finn, Zvi Glaser, Yehuda Freidin, Ya'akov Aviel, Reuven Castro, Arie Kanfer, Yitzchak Beraz, Shlomo Lavi, Yosef Lior, and others.
The title "By Aharon Dolev" appears on one photo (titled on verso "Hatikva neighborhood").
34 photos, 7.5X10.5 cm. to 15.5X22 cm. Overall good condition. Some are folded and one has an open tear in the folding crease. Tears along folding creases. Creases. Few defects.
Provenance: "Maariv" newspaper archive.

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