SIGNED; Tim Gidal - In The Forties (ASSOCIATION COPY) - 1981

GREAT OPPORTUNITY to purchase this rare and striking catalogue -
signed and dedicated by well-known German-American-Israeli photographer Tim N. Gidal, born Ignatz Nachum Gidalewitsch, also known as Naḥûm Tim Gidāl, to well-known East-German photographer Harald Hauswald
(= ASSOCIATION COPY).

Tim Gidal, who was born 1909 in Munich and who died 1996 in Jerusalem.
Tim Gidal was a photographer, photojournalist, and university lecturer.
Tim Gidal is considered one of the pioneers of modern photojournalism.

Harald Hauswald, born 3 May 1954 in Radebeul, is a German photographer who, with Sibylle Bergemann and Ute Mahler, cofounded the Ostkreuz photo agency.

Signed by the artist at the top right corner of the front cover.
Signatures by this artIst are extrem rare.
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The Photographer's Gallery, London. 1981. First edition, first printing.

Softcover (as issued). 210 x 203 mm. 36 pages. Photos: Tim N. Gidal. Introduction: Nigel Trow. Text in English.

Condition:
Inside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Outside with little trace of use only; fresh covers, a bit sunned at and along the spine. Overall very fine condition.

Great and rare catalogue book by Tim N. Gidal - personally signed and dedicated from one photographer and artist to the other: "Für Harald. Herzlichst. Tim" ("For Harald. Warm regards, Tim").
Making it an extraordinary collector’s item with both, artistic and historical, value.

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"Tim Gidal, son of Abraham and Pauline (Eibe) Gidalewitsch, who had immigrated from Russia, grew up in Munich in a religiously liberal family that instilled in him a strong sense of Jewish and Zionist identity. After graduating from high school in Munich, he studied history, art history, and economics at the universities of Munich, Berlin, and Basel; while also working as a photojournalist from 1929 onwards. His brother Georg, a press photographer who urgently needed a replacement, lent him his camera and gave him a brief instruction manual.
His first documentary, 'Servus Kumpel' ('Hello, buddy'), about a group of vagabonds, appeared in the Münchner Illustrierte Presse. Together with his brother, he also produced a reportage entitled “Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst” (Voluntary Labor Service). The brothers published their work in the Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung, among other publications, but ceased their collaboration after their photographs were accompanied by captions that they considered manipulative. In 1934, Gidal documented the 13th International Psychoanalytical Congress in Lucerne.
After completing his studies, he received his doctorate from the University of Basel in 1935 with a thesis entitled “On the Relationship between Photojournalism and the Press”;there he also attended a seminar with Edgar Salin and met Marion Gräfin Dönhoff.
Before he was forced to emigrate to Palestine in 1936 due to his Jewish heritage, Gidal had already visited the country twice for extended periods. In 1932, he produced the reportage 'Arabs Against Jews – The Palestine Problem,' which is one of his best-known photojournalistic works. At the same time, he made his documentary film “Erez Israel im Aufbau” (Erez Israel Under Construction) on behalf of the Palestine Film Office of the Zionist Association for Germany. Other works by him appeared in the American magazine Life, for which he also worked as an editorial consultant, as well as in the newspapers Münchner Illustrierte Presse, Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, Die Woche, and Jüdische Rundschau.
After emigrating to Palestine (1936–1938), Gidal was a leading photographer at London's Picture Post alongside Felix H. Man and Kurt Hübschmann until 1940. In 1938, his first color reportage was published in Paris' Marie Claire.
During World War II, he served as chief press officer in the Jewish Brigade of the 8th British Army from 1942 onwards; he reported from North Africa and Burma and was wounded on the Greek island of Samos. Sixty-two of his photographs appeared in the official army magazine Parade. In Israel in the early 1940s, he met Sonia Epstein, a press photographer from Berlin; they married in 1944.
In 1948, they both emigrated to the United States, where he became a US citizen in 1953. Tim Gidal was a professor of visual communication at The New School for Social Research in New York from 1955 to 1958, while his wife taught arts and crafts in Mount Vernon, New York.
Both loved to travel, visited every continent in the world, and published books. He wrote and illustrated books on photojournalism, while Sonia wrote children's books, most of which were illustrated with his photographs. This series of books introduced children from different countries in words and pictures. The books, originally titled My Village in ..., were written between 1955 and 1970 and published by Pantheon Books. Ten of them were also published in German by Orell Füssli between 1961 and 1968.
After his divorce in 1970, Gidal returned to Israel and became a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1971. In 1980, he married Pia Lis.
In 1989, Gidal donated his photographic estate of approximately 3,000 images to the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History in Duisburg.
His grave is located in the Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem."
(Wikipedia)