Black and white photographic print of a medium close-up portrait of an elderly man with a white cap and a full white beard and mustache. His eyes are dark shadows, with the light hitting his prominent nose. He wears a black garment and his right hand is raised and gesturing outward; it is slightly out of focus.There is a blurred view of another elderly bearded man in a white cap behind his right shoulder. On the verso is 1 adhered caption label and stamps from his agency and a previous owner, and inscriptions in graphite and black and blue ink. back, top left, pencil : 677 back, top right, pencil : T1584 back, bottom left, black ink, handwritten : Palestine (Israel) Jews-(illegible) back, bottom left, pencil : RC-67 back, bottom right, pencil : 8
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The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dr. Mark Reichman.
overall: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm)
Photographic print by Robert Capa of an elderly white bearded Jewish man, a citizen of the new state of Israel, taken in August 1949. It was published as part of a promotional piece: ‘‘Israel's First Year. A Report on a new state"
Robert Capa photograph of an elderly Jewish man in the new state of Israel