The Abbeville Press in New York has announced the publication of “Gail Rubin: Psalmist With a Camera,” a collection of photographs taken by the late photographer who was killed by Palestinian terrorists in March 1978 at a bird sanctuary in Ma’agan Michael in Israel where she had been photographing the nesting habits of storks and pelicans. The terrorists then continued their rampage on the Haifa-Tel Aviv highway where they killed 28 more people.
Based on photographs first exhibited in a 1977 show at the Jewish Museum titled “Birds of the Heaven, Beasts of the Field, the Bible as Source,” the “Psalmist With a Camera” also includes selections from her later work exhibited at the Israel Museum in Israel and the Magnes Museum in Berkeley, Calif. The excerpts accompanying the pictures in her book were culled from the lyric poetry of the Bible and Prophetic literature.
The “Psalmist With a Camera” includes a touching tribute to Rubin’s gentleness and humility by Gen. Avraham Yoffe, chairman of the Israel Nature Reserve Authority, and the man who invited her to photograph Israel’s animate and inanimate life.
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