Album comprising 25 photographs, most or all by the photographer Kurt Triest. Palestine: [ca. late 1930s to late 1940s].
Among the photographs: field plowing under the protection of a mounted Jewish Noter (a member of the Notrim" forces – Jewish auxiliaries serving in the British Armed Forces in Mandatory Palestine); Palmach soldiers; British soldiers in the streets of Tel Aviv; Rabbi reading to an audience in Tel Aviv beach; the lighthouse in Jaffa; camels hauling cargo; and more.
The photographs a preceded by a title page, compiled of color, scissor-cut, letters (one letter missing): "Ein Al[b]um in Bildern, vor 1948" [An Album in Pictures, before 1948].
Nineteen of the photographs are stamped on verso with the stamp of photographer Kurt Triests; one bears an additional stamp, blurred ("The Victory Committee"?). Some photographs with divided backs, to be used as postcards.
Kurt Triest was born in Nuremberg, and studied painting in the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1929 he established a photography studio, and was employed as a graphic designer by various German newspapers and publishers. In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, and became the regular photographer of the "Habimah" theatre. He opened the photography studio "Photo-Temunah", together with the photographer Moshe (Max) Rosenthal. Triest ceased to work as a photographer following the establishment of the State of Israel, after developing an allergy for chemicals used in the process of photograph development.
Size and condition vary. Overall good condition. Stains, pinholes and minor abrasions to some photographs. Inscriptions on verso. Album: 11.5X20 cm. Without binding (album leaves bound with string). Blemishes and wear.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
