Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative 'Rocky Bay

'Rocky Bay

the work is warm in palette but lively in form

making this work a kind of peripheral self-portrait

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The etching is a pure celebration of parenthood and encapsulation of childlike innocence

Yosl Bergner 'The Dedicated Photographer, from The Kimberley Album' figurative 'Rocky BayThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this