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"Solel Boneh" – Photographs folder. Photographer: Zecharya Kotler (Jerusalem) [1920s].
An luxurious cloth folder which contains 19 professional photos by the photographer Zecharya Kotler, documenting the construction projects of "Solel Boneh" company around the country during its first years of activity. Amongst the photographed buildings: warehouses on Allenby Street, Tel-Aviv; 3 houses on Rothschild Blvd, Tel-Aviv; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; a settlement in Emek Yizrael; paving a road; a cowshed in Kefar Yechezkel; military cemetery in Be'er Sheba; "Beit HaKevutzah "Degania B; cosmetics factory in Binyamina; "Shivat Zion" Yemenite neighborhood in Rishon LeZion, etc. Each photo is mounted on a cardboard sheet of good quality (the boards and photos in different colors), the name of the photographer "Z.Kotler publishing, Jerusalem" is embossed both on the cardboard and on the photos, except for three photos. Eight of the photos are annotated by hand in a fine handwriting (in Hebrew and in English), all the others are annotated by hand on the reverse of the cardboard sheets (in German).
The folder opens with two heavy, black, cardboard sheets. In an artistic handwriting appears the following text: "Solel Boneh, Jewish Workers cooperat. Association for Public Works, Building and Manufacture Ltd. Jerusalem P.O.B. 411." (On one sheet appears the text in Hebrew and on the other in English).
Guy Raz writes about Zecharya Kotler in his book "Israel's photographers from the beginning of photography to our days" (Mappa, 2003): "Zecharya Kotler was active in Jerusalem, as proves the stamp appearing on his photos. In the years 1921-1924 was the photographer of" Solel Boneh" Company. In the album published by the company appear photos by Kotler, most of them 10X15 cm in shades of brown / blue / black. The photos are an example of Kotler's professional and aesthetic manipulation of light." Sizes of photo vary, 7X15.5 cm to 10.5X17 cm, plates 25.5X30.5 cm. Folder 33 cm. Good condition. Stains.