The Israel Museum is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopaedic museums. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, adjacent to the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Raffi Lavie educator and music/art critic. Lavie's work is a cross between graffiti and abstract expressionism.
Helmar Lerski was a photographer who laid some of the important foundations of modern photography. His works are on display in the USA, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. He focused mainly on portraits and the technique of photography with mirrors.
Khalil Raad was a photographer, known as "Palestine's first Arab photographer." His works include over 1230 glass plates, tens of postcards, and as yet unpublished films that document political events and daily life in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon over the course of fifty years.
Dorothy Bohm is a photographer based in London, known for her portraiture, street photography, early adoption of colour, and photography of London and Paris; she is considered one of the doyennes of British photography.
Alex Levac is an Israeli photojournalist and street photographer. He was awarded the Israel Prize for photography in 2005.
Gerald David "Gerry" Badger is an English writer and curator of photography, and a photographer.
Fotomuseum Winterthur is a museum of photography in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Liselotte Grschebina was an Israeli photographer.
Samuel Joseph Schweig, in Israel known as Shmuel Yosef Schweig was an Israeli photographer.
James Graham (1806–1869) was a Scottish photographer who took some of the earliest images of the Holy Land, where he was sent as lay secretary for the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews.
Najib Anton Albina was the master photographer of the Palestine Archaeological Museum and, in that position, took the first original sets of photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Through his positions with the American Colony and Palestine Archaeological Museum, he used photography as a means of recording the history of Christian Palestinian culture as well as the discovery of past cultures in the region. He had a significant impact on the techniques of archeological photographers, especially those who took pictures of the Dead Sea Scrolls, through his contributions to the use of infrared photography.
Israel Zafrir was an Israeli photographer. Zafrir was one of the founding fathers of modern documentary photography in Israel.
Mark Yashaev is an Israeli photographer.
Sharon Yaari is an Israeli photographer.
Dalia Amotz was an Israeli photographer.
Gastón Zvi Ickowicz is an Israeli visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv.
International Photography Festival is an international art fair of photography and multimedia art held annually since 2012 in Israel and produced by PHOTO IS:RAEL.
Gabriel Lekegian, also known as G. Lékégian, was an Armenian painter and photographer, active in Constantinople and Cairo from the 1880s to the 1920s. Little is known about his life, but he left an important body of work under the name of his studio ‘Photographie Artistique G. Lekegian & Cie’. With a large number of now historical photographs of Ottoman Egypt, he documented the country at the turn of the 19th century. Among other collections, his photographs are held in the New York Public Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
James W. Borcoman D.F.A. LL.D., also known as Jim Borcoman, was the founding curator of photography, National Gallery of Canada from 1971 to 1994. He was a pioneer in promoting photography as an art form in Canada, having established the Photographs Collection at the National Gallery in 1967 as the first of its kind in Canada, and developing its growth to over 19,000 objects, resulting in a collection known for the quality of its nineteenth and twentieth century holdings and for its exhibitions and publications. He also promoted contemporary Canadian photographers and was himself a photographer with work in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
