Micha Shagrir spent decades behind a camera, chronicling the political and social fabric of a young nation. Yet among his many documentary projects, the films…
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Classrooms worldwide are moving away from textbooks as the sole gateway to the past, and the Shagrir Collection sits at the heart of this shift. Its holdings,…
Israeli Independence Day is experienced through more than ceremonies, flags, and official speeches. It is also assembled from images: military aircraft…
In January 1991 the night sky over Tel Aviv was lit not by celebrations but by the intermittent flashes of Patriot interceptors racing to meet incoming SCUD…
The Shagrir Collection holds thousands of documents that trace the working relationships Micha Shagrir built across decades of journalistic and filmmaking…
A technical look at Shagrir’s camera equipment over the decades begins with the archive rather than a catalogue of famous brands. Micha Shagrir worked across…
In mid-September 1982, the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila on the outskirts of Beirut became the site of one of the most harrowing episodes of…
The Shagrir Collection holds thousands of negatives, contact sheets, film reels, and personal papers that, on first inspection, appear to belong to political…
In the last months of Mandate Palestine, a young Micha Shagrir was already threading through olive groves and stone courtyards with a 16mm camera on his…
For decades, the corridors of Israeli power were rarely captured with the intimacy and persistence seen in the work of Micha Shagrir. A filmmaker, producer,…