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Alfons Himmelreich: Industrial photographer in Palestine and Israel
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1.Alfons Himmelreich
1946, April
Advert for A.Himmelreich in HaTa'assia

Advert
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
LL/18342
2.Alfons Himmelreich
1940
Land is Life

Gelatin silver print
24 x 30 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
This photograph was used on the cover for A Land in Construction, vol. II, no. 6; May 1940.
 
LL/18343
3.Alfons Himmelreich
1940, May
Land is Life

Magazine cover
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Cover for A Land in Construction, vol. II, no. 6; May 1940.
 
This is one of the few images Himmelreich made for the Jewish National Fund - at the time to protest restrictions imposed by the British on land purchase for Jews. The reasons are clarified in the catalogue Alfons Himmelreich: Photographer on the Roof (Israel, The Open Museum of Photography in the Tel-Hai Industrial Park, 2005)
 
LL/18344
4.Alfons Himmelreich
n.d.
Kidma moveable lift

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
The word Kidma in Hebrew means progress.
 
LL/18345
5.Alfons Himmelreich
n.d.
Kidma moveable lift advert

Advert
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
The word Kidma in Hebrew means progress.
 
LL/18346
6.Alfons Himmelreich
n.d.
Kidma moveable lift advert

Advert
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
The word Kidma in Hebrew means progress.
 
LL/18347
7.Alfons Himmelreich
1941
Soldier portrait

Gelatin silver print
30 x 40 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
This photograph was used on a poster to mark Soldier's Day, 1941. The poster was designed by Franz Kraus, one of the most prominent graphic designers of the period.
 
LL/18348
8.Alfons Himmelreich
1941
Soldiers Day poster

Poster
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
The poster was designed by Franz Kraus, one of the most prominent graphic designers of the period.
 
LL/18349
9.Alfons Himmelreich
1941, August
Untitled

Gelatin silver print
24 x 30 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
This image of a bolt was used in numerous publications of the time to mark the modernist and progressive development of industry in Palestine, HaTa'assia, vol. 7 (November 1941).
 
It was made at a time when it was forbidden to photograph the horizon of Tel-Aviv because of possible attacks by enemy aircraft. The image with the fencing was also used as a cover for the magazine HaTa'asia, probably in 1947. Using the device of placing a piece of fencing on the printing paper Himmelreich then enlarged the bolt, and made his exposure - thus protesting against the British curfews on Tel-Aviv.
 
LL/18350
10.Alfons Himmelreich
1942
Bolt on cover of "Machinery and Technical Supllies Made in Palestine" (Tel Av, Foreign Trade Institute)

Cover
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
This image of a bolt was used in numerous publications of the time to mark the modernist and progressive development of industry in Palestine, HaTa'assia, vol. 7 (November 1941). It was made at a time when it was forbidden to photograph the horizon of Tel-Aviv because of possible attacks by enemy aircraft.
 
LL/18351
11.Alfons Himmelreich
1947 (ca)
Bolt with fence - curfew

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
This image was used as a cover for the magazine HaTa'assia, probably in 1947. Using the device of placing a piece of fencing on the printing paper Himmelreich then enlarged the bolt, and made his exposure - thus protesting against the British curfews on Tel-Aviv.
 
LL/18352
12.Alfons Himmelreich
1946
Tove Ereg fabrics

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
This photograph was used in publicity for the company "Tove Ereg" (Well-woven) fabrics.
 
LL/18353
13.Alfons Himmelreich
n.d.
Tove Ereg advert

Advert
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Graphic for the company "Tove Ereg" (Well-woven) fabrics.
 
LL/18354
14.Alfons Himmelreich
1948
Armored cars

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Image which appeared in HaTa'assia, Feb 1948.
 
LL/18355
15.Alfons Himmelreich
1948, February
Armored cars, HaTa'assia

Magazine page
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
The text clarifies the danger in moving around prior to the formation of the State in May 1948. Goods are being loaded from the Foreign Trade Institutue for delivery to Switzerland.
 
LL/18356
16.Alfons Himmelreich
1942
Argaman dying works

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Image of the Argaman dying works was the cover of the publication HaTa'assia, December 1942
 
LL/18357
17.Alfons Himmelreich
1942, December
Argaman dying works, HaTa'assia

Magazine cover
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
LL/18358
18.Alfons Himmelreich
1950, February
Beit Midrash in home for aged, Tel-Aviv

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Beit Midrash (study hall) in home for aged in Tel-Aviv and image which appeared in a calendar Feb. 1950.
 
LL/18359
19.Alfons Himmelreich
1950, February
Beit Midrash in home for aged, Tel-Aviv

Calendar page
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Beit Midrash is the Hebrew for study hall.
 
LL/18360
20.Alfons Himmelreich
n.d.
Naan sprinkler

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Naan, a company for irrigation supplies, and a major company today.
 
LL/18361
21.Alfons Himmelreich
n.d.
Naan advert for a sprinkler

Advert
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Naan, a company for irrigation supplies, and a major company today, with a sprinkler and graphics.
 
LL/18362
22.Alfons Himmelreich
n.d.
Naan advert for a sprinkler

Advert
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Naan, a company for irrigation supplies, and a major company today, with a sprinkler and graphics.
 
LL/18363
23.Alfons Himmelreich
1939
Ship building Tel Aviv port

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
This photograph was the cover of Technics and Science, Boat building, March 1939
 
LL/18364
24.Alfons Himmelreich
1939, March
Front cover of "Technics and Science" Boat building

Magazine cover
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
LL/18365
25.Alfons Himmelreich
1960
Portrait for Dubek cigarette advert

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Portrait was used in a poster made for the Dubek cigarette company.
 
LL/18366
26.Alfons Himmelreich
1960
Dubek cigarettes poster

Poster
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
LL/18367
27.Alfons Himmelreich
1957 (ca)
School bus Tu've beShvat

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
The Dan bus company, the main company until today in Tel-Aviv, advertising the Tu've beShvat (Festival of the Trees in early Spring) for school children.
 
LL/18368
28.Alfons Himmelreich
1957
School bus Tu've beShvat advert

Advert
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
The Dan bus company, the main company until today in Tel-Aviv, advertising the Tu've beShvat (Festival of the Trees in early Spring) for school children.
 
LL/18369
29.Alfons Himmelreich
1953 (ca)
Teva penicillin

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Teva, one of the giant pharmaceutical companies world wide, with its penicillin laboratory in 1953.
 
LL/18370
30.Alfons Himmelreich
1953
Teva penicillin publicity publication

Advert
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Teva, one of the giant pharmaceutical companies world wide, with its penicillin laboratory in 1953.
 
LL/18371
31.Alfons Himmelreich
1930s-1940s
Advert for Restaurant Stern, Tel-Aviv

Silver print and poster paint
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Graphics applied directly to the image in an advertisement for the Stern Restaurant, Tel-Aviv.
 
LL/18372
32.Alfons Himmelreich
1941
Agricultural produce Tnuva

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Agricultural produce photographed for Tnuva, now a dairy enterprise, but then an umbrella marketing company for agricultural produce.
 
LL/18373
33.Alfons Himmelreich
1958-1959
Amcor refrigerators

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Amcor refrigerators (a major company that continues until today).
 
LL/18374
34.Alfons Himmelreich
1960s (early)
Assembly line at the Yachin Canning Company

Gelatin silver print
30 x 40 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
LL/18375
35.Alfons Himmelreich
1944
Cooking pots Palalum (Palestine Aluminium Company)

Digital print made from negative
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
LL/18376
36.Alfons Himmelreich
1945
Merino wool

Gelatin silver print
24 x 30 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
LL/18377
37.Alfons Himmelreich
1956-1958
Cordage

Gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
 
Silver Print Gallery and Archive
Cordage, made for the client Israel Cordage, 1956-58. The sisal twine came from fields of sisal established in the 1950s in the Negev desert.
 
LL/18378
   
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