Tsadok Bassan Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1882 - d. 1957

Tsadok Bassan (1882-1956), first Jewish photographer born in Palestine and the "court photographer" of the Old Yishuv community in Jerusalem. Studied in "Etz Haim" Yeshivah, and at the same time attempted to paint and learned photography with the photographer Edelstein. In 1900 – at the young age of 18 – he purchased the studio of the photographer Yeshayahu Rephaelovich in the Old City, and later opened a studio – "Zalmaniya" – of his own, on Ethiopia street. Bassan documented mainly the life of the Old Yishuv and its institutions: Yeshivahs, orphanages, soup-kitchens, hospitals, cemeteries and photographed quite often families and portraits of rabbis.