Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

David Rubinger – Varied Collection of Photographs, 1960s-1970s

Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
Sixteen large photographs taken by the Israeli photographer David Rubinger. Various places in Israel (one photograph is from another country), [ca. 1960s and 1970s].
Photographs depict: an Arab construction worker at the French Hill, Jerusalem; a family sitting around a table in a ruined kitchen, after a bombing of a Kibbutz (1967); children burying a dog that was killed during a bombing of a Kibbutz (1967); two architectural photographs of the Dubiner Apartment House in Ramat Gan; actor Burt Lancaster playing Moses during the filming of the television series Moses the Lawgiver in Eilat; and more. One of the photographs depicts passengers on the boarding ramp of an El Al airplane, in a snow-covered country (Germany?).
The photographs are stamped on verso with the photographer's stamp, most are titled on printed notes mounted to verso, and some are titled in pencil (on verso, English).
16 photographs, approx. 28X35.5 cm (two photographs are slightly smaller: 22.5X33 cm). Good overall condition. Minor blemishes, mainly to the margins.
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