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Beginning in the 1920s, his photographs helped shape the world's perception of the Zionist enterprise. But Shmuel Joseph Schweig is equally renowned as Israel's first artistic photographer of landscape and archaeology. Schweig is considered one of the most important of those who fashioned the image
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of Palestine, beginning in the 1920s, and he is identified with the Zionist enterprise and the nation-building project of the Jewish people. However, he saw himself above all as an artistic photographer; indeed, he is considered the first local art photographer of landscape and archaeology.
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After specialising in archaeological photography, he became the chief photographer of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandatory administration, housed from 1938 onward by the
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He worked at several archaeological publications and was in charge of the illustration and layout of the Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (editor
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2010: "Shmuel Joseph Schweig: Photography as Material", at the Open Museum of Photography in the Tel Hai Industrial Park
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known as "The Police Stations Plan 1940–1941", "The Wilson Brown Buildings" or "From Dan to Be'er Sheva".
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The Schweig collection, which includes both glass and large gelatin negatives, is divided among the
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Shmuel Joseph Schweig (S.J. Schweig) was a photographer born in 1905 in
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1930 London University, languages, and Photography School, London
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Perez, Nissan (ed), Camera Sacra, The Israel Museum, 2005
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1985: second exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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1971: a solo exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Schweig produced at the request of the office of the
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Ternopil
Austria-Hungary
Jerusalem
Austria-Hungary
Mandate Palestine
Tarnopol
Austria-Hungary
Jerusalem
Galicia
Zionist
emigrate
Land of Israel
Mandate Palestine
JNF
Jerusalem
Palestine Archaeological Museum
Isaiah scroll
Dead Sea Scrolls
Michael Avi-Yonah
Prentice-Hall
Secretary of State for the Colonies
Tegart forts
Israel Museum
JNF
Central Zionist Archives
Rockefeller Museum
Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
Yakir Yerushalayim
Israel Museum

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