Saturday, August 30, 2025

Chess Still Life, Palestine, 1930s

 

Source: here.

Our frequent correspondent, Herbert Halsegger, notifies us of the Jewish photographer, Herbert Sonnenfeld (1906-1972), who photographed many Jewish subjects in his career, ranging from Germany to Palestine to New York. Here is a still life of chess pieces, taken according to source in "Palestine, between 1933 to 1938," presumably the dates in which Sonnenfeld was in Palestine, after leaving Germany and before coming to New York. It is a rare case of chess as a subject of an artistic photograph during this time in Palestine. 

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