ROBERT CAPA (1913-54)

'Israel's First Year', 1949

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ROBERT CAPA (1913-54)
'Israel's First Year', 1949
Six glossy gelatin silver prints, each approx. 9½ x 7¾ in., inscribed and annotated in ink/pencil, titled and captioned Israels' First Year. A Report on a New State...War is over, Israel faces grim battle for survival. Jews entering the promised land find not milk and honey, but austerity, inflation and uneasy frontiers. on typescript labels and with various stamps including photographer's credit stamp ...Robert Capa Magnum...Paris on verso. (6)

Provenance

Inherited by the present owner c. 1980 on the death of his grandmother.

Lot Essay

Subjects include an old school teacher riding to school on a donkey; a man arriving in Israel with his belongings, street cafés; a young woman hanging laundry, a six-year old boy from Jerusalem (illus.) and a father with a young child.

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