Micha Shagrir’s photographic record of the 1990s peace process offers more than a sequence of political events. It preserves the atmosphere around…
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Micha Shagrir's 1963 documentary about the development of the Negev desert has spent decades in storage, watched only by occasional researchers and film…
Israeli cinema found a distinctive voice in the decades after the country’s establishment, when filmmakers began moving away from polished national myths and…
In the middle of the 1950s, when the young State of Israel was still drawing its borders and learning how to present itself in print, a young photographer…
The Shagrir Collection holds thousands of frames documenting parades, military ceremonies, and state rituals from the mid-twentieth century onward. Many were…
War photography occupies a strange moral territory. A photographer can arrive at a scene moments after a tragedy and, with one click, shape how millions of…
In 1961, the District Court of Jerusalem became the stage for one of the twentieth century's most consequential legal proceedings. The trial of Adolf Eichmann,…
Live blackjack combines the familiar rules of a classic table game with the atmosphere of a streamed casino floor. A real dealer manages the cards, players…
The early light over Tel Aviv in the late 1960s fell across a leather camera bag and a notebook already half-filled with shorthand. Micha Shagrir had been…
Audio recordings can preserve the texture of history in ways written records cannot. A pause, interruption, change in tone, room noise or audience reaction may…
