Werner Braun (photojournalist)

Werner Braun (12 June 1918 – 25 December 2018) was an Israeli photographer, considered a founder of photojournalism in Israel.

Biography

Werner Brown was born in Nuremberg, Germany. Braun started to take photos at the age of 18. With the rise of the Nazi regime, he left Germany in 1937, first to Denmark and then to Sweden. He was able to migrate to Mandatory Palestine in 1946.

Awards

1979 Third Prize, Nikon International Contest

1989 Enrique Kavlin Life Achievement Award for Photography. Israel Museum

2007 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Audio-Visual Conservation Forum in Israel

Exhibitions

Gallery

References

1918 births

2018 deaths

Israeli centenarians

Men centenarians

Israeli journalists

Artists from Nuremberg

Place of death missing

Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine