Micha Shagrir’s television documentary on the Israeli Navy was more than a record of ships, officers and military activity. Its polished images concealed…
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Micha Shagrir’s photographs of the Knesset building preserve a parliament in the making. Located in Givat Ram and designed by Herzog & de Meuron with Ram Karmi…
During the 1960s, clothing became a visible record of Israel’s transformation. Migration, industrial growth, military service and contact with Europe and North…
Among the Shagrir Collection’s most revealing holdings are letters that never became articles. Unpublished correspondence between Micha Shagrir and Israeli…
On 6 October 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched coordinated attacks on Israel, beginning the conflict remembered as the Yom Kippur War. Cameras entered…
Shagrir's early 16mm reels are containers of movement, sound and historical evidence. Their images connect Micha Shagrir's work as filmmaker, photographer and…
Micha Shagrir’s photographs of Israeli scientists and inventors do more than preserve distinguished faces. They record a young state learning to present…
The Negev Desert, stretching across southern Israel, is often represented as an empty frontier. Micha Shagrir’s 1970s series complicates that familiar image by…
Shagrir’s 1967 interview with Moshe Dayan belongs to a particular kind of historical record: one in which a senior Israeli minister answers for a government, a…
The Suez Crisis of 1956 was a decisive episode in Israel’s early history, shaped by military action, international pressure and the rapidly changing politics…
