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Tel Aviv Museum of Art Presents Retrospective Exhibition Yakov Agor: A Photographer

TEL AVIV.- Yakov Agor (Goldfarb) was born in Rovno, Ukraine in 1911. He took his first pictures at the age of 8, and at 19 began studying painting at the Berlin School of Art, returning to his hometown, Danzig, in 1933, following the Nazi rise to power. During World War II he designed sets for the Soviet film industry, and even participated in the war as an officer in the Polish army. In 1954 he began working as a photojournalist and a photographer of avant-garde theaters, among them Tadeusz Kantor’s Polish theater company. At the end of 1958, the 47 year old Agor immigrated to Israel with his wife, dancer Helena Wolaniski, and their son, Alexander. That year an exhibition of his photographs was staged at Beit Sokolov (Journalists’ House), Tel Aviv, which drew favorable responses. In 1960 he became a photographer for HaOlam HaZeh, and