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Reuven Milon, Israeli, born 1928.

Reuven Milon was born in Jerusalem in 1928. In the second half of the 1940s he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and specialized in metalwork. On the day of the Declaration of Independence he was captured by the Jordanian army. Upon his release, in 1949, he began working as a camera repairman. At the same time, he began to engage in photography as an autodidact. In 1967 he began to work as a photographer for a living. Among other things, he was a photographer at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and opened a photography studio in the Beit Hakerem neighborhood of Jerusalem. In 1986 he joined the Professional Photographers Association of Israel. The photographs of Milon often depict the life of the city of Jerusalem.

Education

1950 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Graduated BA
1959 The Technion, Haifa, Advanced study, Photography

Awards And Prizes

1952 First Photography Competition, Israel Government Journalists' Association, and the America Israel Cultural Foundation
1952 International Competition, Popular Photography Magazine, NY, USA
1954 First Prize, Photography Competition, The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
1967 First Prize, Photography Contest, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1974 Enrique Kavlin Photography Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2008 Enrique Kavlin Photography Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem