Peter Merom, Large Mounted Vintage Silver Gelatin Israeli Kibbutz Photograph

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A little boy who just received a penicillin shot. signed on back with studio stamp. along with an old description … Read more A little boy who just received a penicillin shot. signed on back with studio stamp. along with an old description label.
this is mounted to wood and not framed or behind glass. it has some wear and surface soiling but it is a lovely charming piece and shows well.

Peter Merom ( Hebrew : פטר מירום, born 1919 ) is an Israeli photographer born in Germany. He specializes in landscape photography and landscape detail.
He was born in Lower Silesia and in 1934 emigrated from Germany to the British Mandate Palestine , where he settled four years later in the kibbutz Chulata . In 1935 he bought the first compact camera and began to amateur photography. After working as a fisherman in the kibbutz, he began to photograph Lake Chulus and then recorded his desiccation in 1951 to 1958. He gained his first artistic education as a self-taught specialist literature, international magazines and photographic anniversaries. In 1957 he studied photography in France . In Paris, he worked in a printing works where many photographers, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and other photographers, printed their photographs. At that time, he made a series of photos of The Dying Lake , which he presented at the Telaviv Museum of Art . In 1974 he stopped working as a photographer and began to produce and sell photographs from his archive printed on plywood.

In 2000 he received an award from the Israeli Museum for a lifetime work in the field of photography. In 2010, he received the Israel prize for a photograph taken every five years.
Education
1957 Photography, Paris, France
Awards And Prizes
1999 Enrique Kavlin Photography Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000 Israel Museum Prize for Photography, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2010 Israel Prize for Photography See less