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Boris Carmi

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He worked for various newspapers and magazines producing reports on immigrants and their new beginnings and portraits of artists and politicians. From 1952 to 1976, he mainly worked as Chief Editor of a daily newspaper and a leading figure in the Israeli Press Association. During the
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and other contemporary Israeli history. He was one of few photographers active in Israel at this time and recorded historically important moments, construction projects, transit camps and waves of immigration as well as wartime scenes. In 1949 he
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in 1936, intending to emigrate to Palestine. He was granted permission to do so three years later and arrived there in 1939 aboard a freighter. He worked in a warehouse for several years until he could become a professional photographer.
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In 1959 Carmi held his first solo exhibition in Tel Aviv. In the following decades he produced several further exhibitions and publications, including volumes of portrait and
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in Jerusalem. He continued producing photographs until shortly before his death. However, his first solo exhibition in Europe was held posthumously, at the
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and documented the very beginnings of the foundation of the state of Israel. His work totals around 60,000 negatives in all.
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with Egyptian soldiers' bootprints rather than casualties or scenes of destruction.
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and at the same time began to take photographs. He travelled to
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in 2005. This showed over 100 images, under the patronage of
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he tended to photograph the deserted landscape of the
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Carmi (on the left), 1948. Meitar collection, National Library of Israel
National Library of Israel
Moscow
Tel Aviv
Russian
photojournalism
Paris
Sorbonne
Danzig
World War II
aerial photography
map-making
Italy
Egypt
Israeli Army
1948 Palestine war
Hebraized
1956 war with Egypt
Sinai Peninsula
landscape photography

Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Israel Museum
Berlin Academy of Arts
Jewish Museum Frankfurt
Johannes Rau
Moshe Katzav
"Pressefotos-Boris Carmi-Fotografien aus Israel-Ausstellung 15. Mai bis 27. Juni 2004"
"Dr. Alexandra Nocke - EXHIBITIONS"
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