Documentors of the Dream

The photographs, fragile mirrors to the past, testify to a moment when a nascent society set in motion utopian ideas that were to lead towards institutions of contemporary Israeli society. They project an assortment of old Yishuv and new Zionist lifestyles, village society, the beginnings of the Kibbutz, labor battalions, the guarding of settlements, development of agriculture and land reclamation, construction of roads, the growth of new cities, immigration and community welfare. 

The book is divided into general introductory chapters, concluding with the biographies and works of ten photographers dating from the turn of the twentieth century to 1993 when a new wave of immigration was to change the prevailing aesthetic

Israel Studies in Historical Geography Series