Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Huge Collection of Photographs by Photographer Eliyahu Cohen
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Album containing about 860 photographs, by photographer Eliyahu Cohen. Eretz Israel, 1947-1950.
Eliyahu Cohen (1910-1993), born in Dusseldorf, Germany, was a member of the youth movements "Maccabi" and "Blau Weiss". With the rise of the Nazi Party into power, he left his law studies and joined an agricultural training group in Latvia organized by "HeChalutz". Immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1934, settled in kibbutz Gesher in the Jordan Valley and worked in the Naharayim Power Plant as well as in agriculture; later moved to Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov. Cohen taught himself photography and used to travel to Tel-Aviv to buy photography brochures and meet with Rudi Wiesenstein in his studio. In his photographs he documented mainly agricultural work, structures in the Kibbutz and various Kibbutz activities, trips of Kibbutz members and treks of the Palmach Patrol Unit in the Negev.
The album presented contains photographs portraying trips in the country, tours in Kibbutzim and in various sites in the Negev and the Galilee, agricultural work in fields and farms, and more. All of the album's leaves bear titles marking the location, some with the date. The album contains photographs of the following locations: Beit Shean, Ein Harod, Tel Yosef, Beit Hashita, ancient synagogue in Baram, Nebi Yosha, Malkiya, Tzlachya, Yiftach, Manara, Misgav, Kfar Gilady, Ma'ayan Baruch, Hagoshrim, Kfar Szold, Kfar Blum, Neot Mordechai, Dardara, Ayelet Hashachar, Rosh Pina, Machanayim, Hulata, Genosar, Kineret, Hukuk, Gvat, Gesher, Neve Or, Mount Tabor, Hanita, Bassa, Rosh Hanikra, Gesher Haziv, Ein Gedi, Ze'elim, Massada, Machtesh, Ma'ale Akrabim, Hatzerim, Ramon Crater, Apolonia, Tel-Aviv, Haifa and more. Several leaves are titled in more detail: "journey of 'HaTenua HaKelalit shel HaNo'ar HaLomed HaChalutzi, in Har HaNegev and Eilat" (1950), "Spring 1947"."From Nahariya to the vicinity on bicycles", "holiday on the beach in Nahariya, 1950", "Month of 'Modiin' in Safed (Kena'an Police), 1951", "month of a photography tour on 'HaKibutz HaMe'uchad' mission – Jordan valley, Hula, Eastern Galilee, Eastern Emek Yizrael, and more", "Half-Jubilee of Heftziba, summer 1947", "Tenth anniversary of Maoz, summer 1947". Several newspaper cuttings and booklets where Cohen's photographs appeared are integrated into the album; enclosed are two letters sent to Cohen. Size of photographs varies, 4X5.5 cm to 11.5X8.5 cm. [53] leaves (photographs mounted on both sides of the leaves), 35X50 cm. Not bound. Good condition.
For further information about Cohen, see:
1. Und sie haben Deutschland verlassen... müssen, Fotografen und ihre Bilder, 1928-1997, [Projektleitung]: Klaus Honeff, Frank Weyers, (published by Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Landschaftsverband Rheinland), 1997, pp 108-109.
2. Guy Raz: Photographers of Palestine Eretz Israel / Israel (1855-2000). Tel-Aviv: "Mappa", 2003. P.102.
Eliyahu Cohen (1910-1993), born in Dusseldorf, Germany, was a member of the youth movements "Maccabi" and "Blau Weiss". With the rise of the Nazi Party into power, he left his law studies and joined an agricultural training group in Latvia organized by "HeChalutz". Immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1934, settled in kibbutz Gesher in the Jordan Valley and worked in the Naharayim Power Plant as well as in agriculture; later moved to Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov. Cohen taught himself photography and used to travel to Tel-Aviv to buy photography brochures and meet with Rudi Wiesenstein in his studio. In his photographs he documented mainly agricultural work, structures in the Kibbutz and various Kibbutz activities, trips of Kibbutz members and treks of the Palmach Patrol Unit in the Negev.
The album presented contains photographs portraying trips in the country, tours in Kibbutzim and in various sites in the Negev and the Galilee, agricultural work in fields and farms, and more. All of the album's leaves bear titles marking the location, some with the date. The album contains photographs of the following locations: Beit Shean, Ein Harod, Tel Yosef, Beit Hashita, ancient synagogue in Baram, Nebi Yosha, Malkiya, Tzlachya, Yiftach, Manara, Misgav, Kfar Gilady, Ma'ayan Baruch, Hagoshrim, Kfar Szold, Kfar Blum, Neot Mordechai, Dardara, Ayelet Hashachar, Rosh Pina, Machanayim, Hulata, Genosar, Kineret, Hukuk, Gvat, Gesher, Neve Or, Mount Tabor, Hanita, Bassa, Rosh Hanikra, Gesher Haziv, Ein Gedi, Ze'elim, Massada, Machtesh, Ma'ale Akrabim, Hatzerim, Ramon Crater, Apolonia, Tel-Aviv, Haifa and more. Several leaves are titled in more detail: "journey of 'HaTenua HaKelalit shel HaNo'ar HaLomed HaChalutzi, in Har HaNegev and Eilat" (1950), "Spring 1947"."From Nahariya to the vicinity on bicycles", "holiday on the beach in Nahariya, 1950", "Month of 'Modiin' in Safed (Kena'an Police), 1951", "month of a photography tour on 'HaKibutz HaMe'uchad' mission – Jordan valley, Hula, Eastern Galilee, Eastern Emek Yizrael, and more", "Half-Jubilee of Heftziba, summer 1947", "Tenth anniversary of Maoz, summer 1947". Several newspaper cuttings and booklets where Cohen's photographs appeared are integrated into the album; enclosed are two letters sent to Cohen. Size of photographs varies, 4X5.5 cm to 11.5X8.5 cm. [53] leaves (photographs mounted on both sides of the leaves), 35X50 cm. Not bound. Good condition.
For further information about Cohen, see:
1. Und sie haben Deutschland verlassen... müssen, Fotografen und ihre Bilder, 1928-1997, [Projektleitung]: Klaus Honeff, Frank Weyers, (published by Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Landschaftsverband Rheinland), 1997, pp 108-109.
2. Guy Raz: Photographers of Palestine Eretz Israel / Israel (1855-2000). Tel-Aviv: "Mappa", 2003. P.102.
Travels to Eretz Israel, Maps, Souvenir Objects, Photography, Postcards and Graphics
Travels to Eretz Israel, Maps, Souvenir Objects, Photography, Postcards and Graphics