Robert Capa photograph of the ship Altalena, Israeli War for Independence
Photographic print by Robert Capa taken of the main bathing beach in Tel Aviv aof the stranded offshore cruiser, Altalena, in July 1948. It taken during the Israeli War for Independence from the rooftop of the United Nations observers station in the Hotel Kaethe Dan. The photo was published as part of a photojournalistic essay: ‘‘Jews Fights Jews on the Beach of Tel Aviv"
The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dr. Mark Reichman.
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overall: Height: 7.625 inches (19.368 cm) | Width: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm)
Black and white photographic print of an outdoor scene featuring a beach and an offshore cruiser shot from a hotel rooftop. In the background is a cruiser near the shore with a large expanse of ocean and horizon behind and to the right. There appear to be indistinct figures crowded on the upper deck. Along the shore line are three observers and a few people are walking on the beach in the middle ground. There are several trucks in the left and a section of white picket fence in the center foreground. On the verso are 3 adhered caption labels and stamps from his agency and a previous owner, and inscriptions in graphite and black and blue ink. back, top, black ink, handwritten : /16 back, top right, pencil : T1592 back, bottom left, pencil : RC-43 back, bottom right, pencil : 6.5