Shmuel Yosef Schweig Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1902 - d. 1984

Shmuel Yosef Schweig (1902-1984) – one of the leading photographers in Palestine in the 1920s-30s. Schweig, born in Tarnopol, Galicia, studied photography in Vienna and in London. Immigrated to Palestine in 1922. In 1925 started to work as a photographer for JNF and documented through his camera the development of Palestine and its views. Schweig opened a photography studio on Hanevi'im street in Jerusalem and served as curator of the Rockefeller Museum photography department. He was also involved in archaeological photography, photographed for the Mandate Police and headed the photography department of the Jewish Agency.