Exhibitions
Rudi Weissenstein – Exil und Fotografie
Grisebach, Berlin
26.07. – 31.08.2019
The PhotoHouse – Das Archiv des legendären Rudi Weissenstein in Tel Aviv
Gottfried & Söhne im Jüdischen Museum Wien, Vienna
22.03. – 11.04.2019
Book Signings
Book launch
Photobastei, Zurich
07.06.2017
Yves Kugelmann, chief editor of Tachles in conversation with Ben Peter, PhotoHouse/Tel Aviv and Anna-Patricia Kahn, °CLAIR Gallery
Rudi Discovering the Weissenstein Archive
Rudi Weissenstein (1910 – 1992) was the most prominent chronicler of everyday life in the young state of Israel and his photographs are essential to understanding the country's social history. Born in what is now the Czech Republic, Weissenstein studied photography in Vienna. He worked as a press photographer before emigrating to Palestine in 1936 where he married Miriam Arnstein (1913 – 2011). They took over the Pri-Or PhotoHouse in Tel Aviv in 1940 and developed it into a renowned cultural institution. Weissenstein received numerous awards for his work including the first prize at the Moscow International Photography Exhibition. The PhotoHouse is now run by Weissenstein's grandson Ben Peter and holds more than one million negatives. The archive is being reborn and as it celebrates its 80th anniversary many of its highlights are being published here for the first time. Weissenstein's estate is represented by °CLAIR Gallery, its director Anna-Patricia Kahn is one of this book's editors.
Half-cloth hardcover
24 x 28 cm
160 pages
96 duotone illustrations
English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-745-5
2016
Artists:
Editors:
Michal Amram, Anna-Patricia Kahn, Ben Peter
Design:
Michal Amram
Product information "Rudi"
Rudi Weissenstein (1910 – 1992) was the most prominent chronicler of everyday life in the young state of Israel and his photographs are essential to understanding the country's social history. Born in what is now the Czech Republic, Weissenstein studied photography in Vienna. He worked as a press photographer before emigrating to Palestine in 1936 where he married Miriam Arnstein (1913 – 2011). They took over the Pri-Or PhotoHouse in Tel Aviv in 1940 and developed it into a renowned cultural institution. Weissenstein received numerous awards for his work including the first prize at the Moscow International Photography Exhibition. The PhotoHouse is now run by Weissenstein's grandson Ben Peter and holds more than one million negatives. The archive is being reborn and as it celebrates its 80th anniversary many of its highlights are being published here for the first time. Weissenstein's estate is represented by °CLAIR Gallery, its director Anna-Patricia Kahn is one of this book's editors.
Half-cloth hardcover
24 x 28 cm
160 pages
96 duotone illustrations
English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-745-5
2016
Artists:
Editors:
Michal Amram, Anna-Patricia Kahn, Ben Peter
Design:
Michal Amram
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