Shlomo Narinsky (Israeli, 1885-1960)Nine Photographs of Jerusalem, 1910-21. Titled and inscribed "S. Narinsky" l.r. in a later hand, stamped "Sheet-fed gravure 1921/Handlettered 1980" on the verso of five prints, published by Jamal Brothers, Jerusalem (Palestine). Photogravures, image size to 3 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (8.6 x 13.7 cm) or reverse, mounted, unframed.
Condition: Minor wear to image corners, light foxing.
N.B. Shlomo Narinsky was an artist who worked as a photographer and later in life as a painter. Born in 1885 in a small Russian village that is in present-day Ukraine, he emigrated to Palestine in the early 20th century and opened a photography studio in Jerusalem named
Photographic Unity. He produced a series of portraits and landscape photographs that he offered as picture postcards. In the 1920s he moved his family to Paris. Before leaving Jerusalem, he sold a selection of his photographs to the publishing house Jamal Brothers, who continued to produce his photographs in the postcard format. In the 1980s, they printed a collection of Narinsky's photographs as photogravures in the publication
Jerusalem 1910-1920.
Titles include
An Orthodox Jew of Jerusalem,
A Bedouin in His Happy Mood,
A Spanish Jew in Jerusalem,
A Yemenite Jew in Jerusalem,
Eliezar Ben-Yehuda, Creator of the Hebrew Encyclopedia,
River Yarkon, Place of Allied Victories in Palestine,
The Pearl of Safed,
An Old Man in Jerusalem, and
Ibn El Sioud Bedouins.
Condition
Condition: Mount dimensions 8 1/2 x 11 in.
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