Avraham Soskin

46 Photographs of Tel-Aviv, 1905-1945, 11.5X17 cm. each. The Photographs are bounded in an Album from the 30’s, each photograph is inscribed in hand writing. View all 46 photos On April 11, 1909, sixty members of Achuzat Bait, later Tel Aviv, went out with their families to the sand dunes north of Jaffa to draw lots on the housing plots….Avraham Soskin, who happened to be there, documented this ”seashell lottery” (a gray seashell carried the plot number and white seashell the family name) with his camera. ”(…) One day, it was in 1909, I was roaming with the camera in one hand and the tripod on my other arm, on my way from a walk through the sand dunes of what is today Tel Aviv toward Jaffa. Where the Gymnasia Herzliya once stood I saw a group of people who had assembled for the housing plot lottery. Although I was the only photographer in the area, the organizers hadn’t seen fit to invite me, and it was only by chance that this historic event was immortalized for the next generation. Israel Ginzburg, ”the first photographer of Tel Aviv was taken by accident…..” , November 10, 1961.

Estimated price: $15,000 - 20,000

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