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Book - Photographs from Israel 1948-1950 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 

With the outbreak of hostilities in Israel in 1948, Robert Capa came to the country to witness and photograph the ceremony of the declaration of the State and the War of Independence. Over the following two years, Capa re-visited Israel a number of times to document the waves of immigration, the transit camps, and the deep uncertainty facing the new-born Jewish nation. Despite Capa's fame as a photographer of wars, these pictures represent a part of his work which is marked by immediacy, warmth and intimacy with his subject. The images presented here are closer and more familiar than much of than... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

FRANCE. Golfe-Juan. August 1948. Pablo Picasso with Françoise... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1954

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Laos. Luang Prabang. May 1954.
Wounded French soldier... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Normandy. June 6th, 1944. American troops landing on... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Chartres. August 18th, 1944. French woman, who had had... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1949

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Warsaw. October, 1948. Where the Jewish ghetto used to... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1954

VIETNAM. May 25, 1954. On the road from Namdinh to Thaibinh.... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

Tel-Aviv. 1950.
Mayor of Tel-Aviv, Israel ROKACH, also leader... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

ISRAEL. Tel Aviv. 1950. Elections. Bedouin votes.

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

A newspaper stand in Jerusalem.1950 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

Tel-Aviv. Novembre 1950.
Election campaign posters 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

ISRAEL. Jerusalem. 1949. Man carrying a wooden beam over his... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

ISRAEL. Near Jerusalem. 1949. A French Jewish immigrant planting... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

ISRAEL. Tel Aviv. On the wall, a collection of portraits of the... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

A cobbler in Tel Aviv 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

ISRAEL. Ramle, near Tel Aviv. 1949. A new immigrant selling some... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

ISRAEL. Haifa. After arriving in Israel, immigrants are sent... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

A mother and child in the Parod immigrant Transit Camp (ma'abara)... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

ISRAEL. Near Haifa. 1950. Child at the Sha'arHa'aliya transit... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

After immigrants arrive in Israel, each one is provided with... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

The Parod transit immigrant camp in Galilee.1950 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

ISRAEL. 1950. An orthodox Jew with his prayer shawl and a sack... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

The reception camp of St Luke's near Jerusalem where refugees... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

ISRAEL. Haïfa. May-June 1949. The arrival of thousands of immigrants... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1947

ISRAEL. Tel Aviv. A party, the girl dancing is a newly arrived... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

ISRAEL. Tel Aviv. May, 1949. Armon Café, on Hayarkan Street.... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1947

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1947

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

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The Altalena burning, Tel Aviv, June 22, 1948 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1950

ISRAEL. Funeral. 1948. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1947

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

ISRAEL. 1948. Jerusalem, Sham's neighbourhood. 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1947

ISRAEL. Negev. The Negba Kibbutz. The walls are still damaged... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1947

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

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ISRAEL. Jerusalem. June 9th, 1948. A member of the Israeli... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

ISRAEL. Members of the Israeli government forces (the Haganah),... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1948

May 1948. The "central front". The Israeli government army (Haganah),... 

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ITALY. Naples. October 2, 1943. Women crying at funeral of twenty... 

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CHINA. Hubei. Hankou. March, 1938. Young women being trained... 

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ms099, ms 99, Mexican Suitcase, Spanish Civil War, 35mm negative... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1936

SPAIN. Córdoba front. Early September, 1936. Death of a loyalist... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1932

DENMARK. Copenhagen. November 27th, 1932. Leon Trotsky lecturing.... 
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