Israel Through My Lens

Today, photojournalist David Rubinger stands at the peak of his profession: a winner of the Israel Prize for services to the media and a fixture on the masthead of Time, he is the only photographer whose work is on permanent display at the Knesset, Israel's legislature. In this fascinating volume, he reports his own story, which in many ways reflects the history of Israel that he has recorded so faithfully with his camera. Born in Vienna in 1924, he emigrated to British Palestine in 1939 and developed a passion for photography while serving in the British army's Jewish Brigade. After fighting in Israel's War of Independence, he became a professional news photographer, reporting on each of his young nation's subsequent wars from the front lines, at first for the Israeli media and later as a correspondent for Time-Life. He photographed all of Israel's leaders, many of whom have allowed him a remarkable degree of access to their lives; Ariel Sharon said, "I trust Rubinger even though I know he doesn't vote for me." But Rubinger has not confined his reporting to war and politics; by photographing the successive waves of Jewish immigrants from Europe, the Arab world, Russia, and Ethiopia, he has also created a valuable record of Israel's transformation from a country of six hundred thousand to one of seven million.

ISBN 0789209284   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780789209283 (What's this?)   Pages 280 Publisher Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.   Volumes 1 Imprint Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.   Weight (grammes) 1256 Format Hardback   Published in New York Publication date 21 Dec 2007   Height (mm) 254 Photographer Rubinger, David   Width (mm) 178 Library of Congress 2007020580   Spine width (mm) 34 DEWEY 770.95694092   Academic level General

		Foreword by Shimon Peres		9
1		How it all began		11
2		The early years in Europe		13
3		Leaving for Eretz		24
4		A soldier for King George		26
5		The marriage		31
6		My first love affair - with the camera		36
7		Married life and becoming an Israeli		39
8		After the War of Independence		47
9		My career begins		54
10		Haolam Hazeh		57
11		Home life		62
12		Yedioth Ahronoth		65
13		Ben-Gurion		70
14		Aliyah		78
15		My beginning with Time-Life		91
16		The Sinai war		95
17		Taking to the skies		100
18		Papal visits		109
19		Teddy Kollek		113
20		The Six Day War and after		119
21		The war of attrition		137
22		The Yom Kippur war		145
23		Sadat and Begin		159
24		Air power stories		173
25		Becoming an Austrian citizen - again		178
26		Immigration from Russia and Ethiopia		185
27		Football and the Lebanon war		196
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