Photo / image of a protest in Tel Aviv by Ephraim Arda. Israel

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Photo of a protest in Tel Aviv by Ephraim Arda. Israel
Size: 30*24 cm
Black and white.
Ephraim Erde
(1905-1986)
An Israeli photographer, the pioneers of photography in Tel Aviv, the side Rudy Weissenstein and the successors of Avraham Soskin. Ephraim Arda was born in a village in eastern Galicia (later on the border between Ukraine and Poland). In Hashomer Hatzair's training in Poland, he met a photographer in 1929, who taught him the basics of photography
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In 1933 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, first settling in Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz and from there he moved to Tel Aviv. In the first period, he photographed residents on the streets of Tel Aviv, then opened a studio called "Photo Eden" on Lilienblum Street, near Cinema Eden, and then, in the 1940s, opened "Photo Arda" at 55 corner of 1 Brenner Street (next to Whitman Ice Cream). A studio that also included a store for photography, and was a well-known Tel Aviv institution
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Many of the photographs were taken in the courtyard of the house, where there was a large mulberry tree that served as a background. Arda's photographs dealt with various and varied subjects: studio portraits, personalities and buildings, Eretz Israel and Tel Aviv, weddings, reproductions for painters, sports and dance, both in the private and institutional fields (for youth movements, sports associations and more)
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