Evgeny and Yakov Henkin: Images of Memory – MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv is proud to present the first exhibition in Israel of the photography of brothers Evgeny and Yakov Henkin.
Some of the unique black-and-white photographs on display were previously exhibited at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg – one of the largest and most important museums in the world and at the Street Photo Milano photography festival.
The Henkin Brothers Archive, located in Lausanne, contains over 7,500 negatives and is a treasure trove of memories from times and worlds that have vanished. The archive draws the attention of photography scholars, Jewish history researchers, and curators. Its contribution to the record is not only academic, but also cultural and moral.
“The amazing story of the Henkin brothers, authors of unofficial photo chronicles of the 1930” by Alexey Pivovarov
From the video description:
… The Henkin brothers, the two photography enthusiasts who no one had even heard about up until that point, were taking photographs, which could now very well be posted online, – but they were doing so throughout the 1930s both in Leningrad and Berlin, where the two brothers respectively resided.…
Watch on YouTube
“Les Frères Henkin. Photographes à Leningrad et à Berlin.”
A book of photographs by Evgeny and Yakov Henkin, entitled Les Frères Henkin. Photographes à Leningrad et à Berlin. (The Henkin Brothers. Photographers in Leningrad and in Berlin.), was released by Les Editions Noir sur Blanc, a Swiss-French publishing house and a part of the Libella Group, on October 24, 2019. The book includes 180 photos by Evgeny and Yakov Henkin, most published for the first time. The book also has an introduction by Gueorgui Pinkhassov and articles by Daniel Girardin, Lorraine de Meaux, Denis Maslov, and Olga Walther. It is published in French.
To the book
“EVGENY AND YAKOV HENKIN: INTO THE LIGHT FROM DARKNESS. A REDISCOVERED TREASURE,” exhibition at Street Photo Milano, Milano, Italia. May 16-19, 2019. See here.
“The Henkin Brothers: A Discovery. People of 1920s-1930s Berlin and Leningrad,” exhibition at The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. July 1-September 24, 2017.
The exhibition is curated by Dr. Dmitri Ozerkov, Head, Department of Contemporary Art and Project Hermitage 20/21, The State Hermitage Museum.
