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P A L E S T I N E W A T
E R C O L O R S ( 1 9 2 5 )
Excerpted from Reminiscences, by Frances Stillman,
1988
In 1925 Ary went by ship to Palestine, where he remained
for six months. In Jerusalem he made dozens of watercolor sketches
of the city and its types, a crowd of youngsters usually surrounding
him, and always a self-appointed leader to drive the unruly ones
away. He roamed the hills and slept in primitive Arab towns; in
one of them he contracted malaria and was desperately ill, and there
were recurrences of the illness for years afterward. He photographed
Chaim Weizman and Lord Balfour at the opening of the Hebrew University
for the Rotogravure Section of the New York Times. He was asked
by a prominent Arab to photograph his wife and daughters; it was
the first time they had unveiled their faces to a stranger.
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| Boy's Head |
Egyptian Jew |
Man with Beret |
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| Palestine Countryside |
Palestine Landscape |
Palestinian Head |
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| Palestinian Head |
Patriarch |
Polish Jew |
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| Unnamed |
Israeli Boy |
Yemenite |
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| Yemenite Jew |
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