New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2006.

Turkish Jews Arrive in Israel to Begin a Hard New Life

Artist Robert Capa (Hungarian, 1913 - 1954)

CultureHungarian

Date1949

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall: 9 7/8 x 8 in. (25.1 x 20.3 cm)

InscribedCaption labels affixed to verso with photo agency stamps; illustration stamp dated "August 27, 1949" on verso. Israel's First Year. A report on a NEW STATE. Pix by RBT Capa. "Magnum" War Over, Israel faces grim battle for survival. Jews entering the promised land find not milk and honey, but austerity, inflation, and uneasy frontiers. 12: This family of Turkish Jews arrives with already expended lives and one guitar. Such people are a major problem because of the difficulty of fitting them into the hard life of a new country.

Credit LineGift of Gary Ginsberg and Susanna Aaron

Object number2005.35.2

Not on view

DescriptionThis a gelatin silver print of Turkish Jews arriving in Israel. A man and a woman walk with their belongings in a sack. The man has on a white hat and a pair of sunglasses. The women is in a dress and holds onto the arm of the man.

Label TextRobert Capa Hungarian (1913-1954) Turkish Jews Arrive in Israel to Begin a Hard New Life, 1949 Gelatin-silver print Gift of Gary Ginsberg and Susanna Aaron 2005.35.2 Robert Capa's adage, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," has become a mantra for journalistic photographers. He is best-known as a war photographer and as a founding member of Magnum Photos, the first international cooperative agency of free-lance photographers. Capa covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the conflict in Indochina where he met his death after stepping on a land mine. He was found still clutching his camera. This photograph comes from one of Capa's major photo-stories on the birth of Israel in 1949, which he covered with Irwin Shaw. It was published in 1950 by Simon and Schuster as Report on Israel. Edited By: CW Edited Date: 2007 Approved By: ERL Approval Date: 2007ProvenanceGary Ginsberg and Susanna Aaron, New York, NY [through photography collector Michael Mattis]; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Gift of Gary Ginsberg and Susanna Aaron, 2005. Exhibition History"The World of Photography," Alice R. and Frank B. Sol Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 20, 2007 - May 25, 2008