Lot 343
Handmade Album – Photographs of "Ma'abarot" and Immigrant Camps by Zoltan Kluger – Proposed Layout for a Promotional Booklet to be issued by the State of Israel, Early 1950s
Handmade album, apparently assembled in order to offer a potential layout for a promotional booklet, to be issued by the State of Israel in the early years of the state – Photographs of new immigrants in "ma'abarot" (transit camps) and absorption camps, most or all by Zoltan Kluger; with handwritten captions. [Israel, early 1950s]. English and some Hebrew.
On the front page is a photograph showing a woman holding a baby at the entrance to a tent. At the top is the figure "242671," representing the number of homeless immigrants in Israel. The following pages have photographs featuring immigrants in wooden huts, tents, and makeshift corrugated metal shacks. At the end are aerial photographs of new neighborhoods being established throughout the country. Some pages are captioned with handwritten explanatory texts and Zionist slogans, and other pages have lined sections for text to be filled in. Some of the photos are superimposed over others, and can be lifted (apparently in an attempt to suggest alternative photo arrangements). Photographs with visible backs are marked on the back with the inked stamp of the renowned Israeli photographer Zoltan Kluger.
Album: [8] ff., 33 cm. 39 photographs: approx. 33X24 – 7.5X6.5 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes to leaves. Minor abrasions and blemishes to photographs (mostly at edges).
