Werner Braun (12 June 1918 – 25 December 2018) was an Israeli photographer, considered a founder of photojournalism in Israel.
Biography
Werner Brown was born in
Nuremberg
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, Germany. Braun started to take photos at the age of 18. With the rise of the Nazi regime, he left Germany in 1937, first to
Denmark
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and then to
Sweden
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. He was able to migrate to
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
in 1946.
Awards
* 1979 Third Prize, Nikon International Contest
* 1989 Enrique Kavlin Life Achievement Award for Photography.
Israel Museum
The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...
* 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Audio-Visual Conservation Forum in Israel
Exhibitions
Gallery
Might by Yosef zaritsky.jpg
New bezalel 2.jpg
PikiWiki Israel 14781 David and Paula Ben-Gurion.jpg
PikiWiki Israel 14786 Admit Park.jpg
PikiWiki Israel 14885 Immigrant in transit camp.jpg
PikiWiki Israel 28792 Immigration to Israel.jpg
PikiWiki Israel 3057 Art of Israel.jpg
Saul Adler. Photograph by Werner Braun. Wellcome V0027916.jpg
RABBI MOSHE GABAIL.jpg
Snow in Zion Square. 1947 (D178-175).jpg
בארות יצחק - אחרי העבודה-JNF000657.jpeg
ירושלים - חגיגת ביכורים בגן ילדים בירושלים.-JNF039449.jpeg
References
1918 births
2018 deaths
Israeli centenarians
Men centenarians
Israeli journalists
Artists from Nuremberg
Place of death missing
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine
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