Auction 64 Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
By Kedem
Jan 22, 2019
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem., Israel
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LOT 125:

Marli Shamir – Ten Photographs – Landscapes and Buildings in Israel

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Marli Shamir – Ten Photographs – Landscapes and Buildings in Israel
Ten photographs by Marli Shamir. Second half of 20th century.
Among the photographs: • Three photographs from Jerusalem: The Hebrew University in Givat Ram, the National Insurance Building and the Western Wall. • Two photographs from the country’s northern region: Mount Hermon covered by snow, and the village Daburiyya in the Jezreel Valley. • Photographs depicting desert landscapes in the Sinai Desert region.
All of the photographs, except for one, are stamped on the back with the photographer's ink-stamp (one photograph is signed: "Photography, Miriam Shamir, Jerusalem"). One photograph is signed by hand.
The photographer Marli Shamir (b. Berlin, 1919) immigrated to Israel in 1938. She opened a photography studio in Rehovot in the early 1940s and worked as a scientific photographer at the Weizmann Institute. She moved to Jerusalem in 1945 and was one of the founders of Photo-Prisma Studio, where she worked until 1949. During the blockade of Jerusalem, she established a military photography laboratory in the city for the Haganah. She lived in West Africa during the 1960s and 1970s with her husband, Meir Shamir, who worked in Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
10 photographs. Size and condition vary. Average size: 18X24 cm. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes to margins. Stains and remnants of tape on the back of some photographs. Writing in pen and pencil on the back of the photographs.

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