Weekend in Havana An American Photographer in the Forbidden City

by McCabe, Robert A.

• ISBN13: 9780789209276
• ISBN10: 0789209276
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Abbeville Press

Summary

"Today, photojournalist David Rubinger stands at the peak of his profession : a winner of the Israel Prize for services to the media and a fixture on the masthead of Time, he is the only photographer whose work is on permanent display at the Knesset, Israel's legislature. In this memoir, published on the sixtieth anniversary of Israel's independence, he reports his own story, which in many ways reflects the history of this nation that he has recorded so faithfully with his camera." "In recounting his eventful career, Rubinger proves himself a gifted raconteur, sharing anecdotes of the many leading personalities he has photographed and telling the stories behind his most famous pictures, many of which are reproduced here at full-page size. Also illustrated are a selection of Rubinger's never-before-published personal photographs, which provide vivid behind-the-scenes glimpses into the fast-paced and sometimes daring work of a photojournalist. Both a personal account of one man's life with the camera and a visual document of the birth of a nation, Israel through My Lens is an essential book for anyone with an interest in Israeli history or the art of photojournalism."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
How it all began	p. 11
The early years in Europe	p. 13
Leaving for Eretz	p. 24
A soldier for King George	p. 26
The marriage	p. 31
My first love affair - with the camera	p. 36
Married life and becoming an Israeli	p. 39
After the War of Independence	p. 47
My career begins	p. 54
Haolam Hazeh	p. 57
Home life	p. 62
Yedioth Ahronoth	p. 65
Ben-Gurion	p. 70
Aliyah	p. 78
My beginning with Time-Life	p. 91
The Sinai war	p. 95
Taking to the skies	p. 100
Papal visits	p. 109
Teddy Kollek	p. 113
The Six Day War and after	p. 119
The war of attrition	p. 137
The Yom Kippur war	p. 145
Sadat and Begin	p. 159
Air power stories	p. 173
Becoming an Austrian citizen - again	p. 178
Immigration from Russia and Ethiopia	p. 185
Football and the Lebanon war	p. 196
Rubber bullet - the first Intifada	p. 212
The second Intifada and the settlements	p. 218
Some special people	p. 229
Travels abroad with my camera	p. 250
My life in the movies	p. 272
Influences on my career	p. 283
My archives	p. 293
House and home	p. 297
My marriage to Anni	p. 302
The evening of my life	p. 308
The renaissance	p. 313
Afterword Ruth Corman	p. 319
Chronology	p. 323
Index	p. 330
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