1982 Lebanon Israel War IDF Beirut Airport By W. Braun Big Press Photo 24x17cm

Werner Braun, one of the founders of modern Israeli photojournalism, is one of the ten great photographers who photographed the JNF from the early 20th century until the 1960s.

Brown has been documenting life in Israel since 1947. Although his style is direct and purposeful, his works express a combination of passion and subtle sensitivity to light and color. Due to the circumstances, his first works are in black and white, with the appearance of color in the press and added color in his works.

Braun is influenced by the ideas of "New Photography" in Germany of the 1930s, which emphasize the independent qualities of photography as a modern technological medium, but he combines these ideas with the cultural orientation of the generation of 1948 - on the one hand is free and liberated formally, And on the other hand he responded to the feelings of the heart and the collective desires of the Jewish community in Israel.