Auction 48 - Rare and Important Items
Camera Owned by the Photographer Avraham Soskin
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
Rolleiflex Compur camera. Zeiss Tessar 3,8/75mm, Heidoscop Anastigmat 3,1/75mm. manufactured by Franke & Heidecke Braunschweig, [1930s].
Camera owned by the photographer Avraham Soskin.
Enclosed is a photograph portraying Avraham Soskin together with David Ben-Gurion, holding the "Rolleiflex" camera offered here.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1905. He settled in the German Colony in Jaffa and opened a studio by the name of "Photographia Progress", with G. Bruck. In 1914 Soskin moved to 24 Herzl Street. Soskin used the second floor both as his residence and his studio; in this studio called "Photographia A. Soskin", Soskin worked for 19 years, until 1933 (when the studio was closed). Soskin, who was known as the "Tel-Aviv Photographer", was one of the leading photographers active at the time in Eretz Israel and is famous for his photographs documenting the two first decades of the first Jewish city. Numerous photos taken by Soskin became the most popular and well known images of the Zionist ethos.
Camera – height: 13.5 cm, width: 7.5 cm, length: 9.5 cm. Original leather case. Photograph – 13X9.5 cm, good condition, adhesive tape to upper part.
Enclosed is a certificate of authenticity from Avraham Soskin's grandson.
Camera owned by the photographer Avraham Soskin.
Enclosed is a photograph portraying Avraham Soskin together with David Ben-Gurion, holding the "Rolleiflex" camera offered here.
Avraham Soskin (1881-1963) was born in Russia and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1905. He settled in the German Colony in Jaffa and opened a studio by the name of "Photographia Progress", with G. Bruck. In 1914 Soskin moved to 24 Herzl Street. Soskin used the second floor both as his residence and his studio; in this studio called "Photographia A. Soskin", Soskin worked for 19 years, until 1933 (when the studio was closed). Soskin, who was known as the "Tel-Aviv Photographer", was one of the leading photographers active at the time in Eretz Israel and is famous for his photographs documenting the two first decades of the first Jewish city. Numerous photos taken by Soskin became the most popular and well known images of the Zionist ethos.
Camera – height: 13.5 cm, width: 7.5 cm, length: 9.5 cm. Original leather case. Photograph – 13X9.5 cm, good condition, adhesive tape to upper part.
Enclosed is a certificate of authenticity from Avraham Soskin's grandson.
Rare and Important Items
Rare and Important Items