Micha Shagrir’s collaboration with Moshe Dayan belongs to a period when Israeli television was becoming an important forum for public memory, political debate…
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Micha Shagrir’s photographs of kibbutz life belong to a period when the camera was often used as a tool of observation, documentation and public memory. His…
Tel Aviv is often described through its architecture: Bauhaus façades, broad boulevards, beachfront towers and the old port. Photography reveals a more…
Building an online archive around Micha Shagrir’s personal papers involves much more than scanning documents and placing images on a website. The collection…
Micha Shagrir’s portraits of Israeli artists in the 1970s offer more than a record of well-known cultural figures. They show performers, writers, painters,…
The 81st Blow occupies a distinctive place in Israeli documentary history. Released in 1974, the film brought Holocaust testimony, archival images and the…
A rare interview with Micha Shagrir on covering the Yom Kippur War offers a close view of wartime journalism before satellite links, mobile phones and instant…
Israeli documentary cinema grew from a country trying to record itself while its institutions, borders and public life were still taking shape. In this…
A film reel is more than a carrier of images. It is a physical record of decisions made in the camera, the laboratory and the editing room. For the Shagrir…
Few archives hold the raw material of history quite like a photographer's contact sheets. For decades, the proof prints and negatives made by Israeli filmmaker…