page_title: Najib Albina
section_title: Early career with the American Colony
hierarchical_section_title: Najib Albina / Early career with the American Colony
caption_attribution_description: English: From Left to Right: Jamil Albina, Najib Albina, and Lewis Larsson, developing motion picture film for the American Colony.
context_page_description: Najib Anton Albina was the master photographer of the Palestine Archaeological Museum and, in that position, took the first original sets of photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Through his positions with the American Colony and Palestine Archaeological Museum, he used photography as a means of recording the history of Christian Palestinian culture as well as the discovery of past cultures in the region. He had a significant impact on the techniques of archeological photographers, especially those who took pictures of the Dead Sea Scrolls, through his contributions to the use of infrared photography.
context_section_description: Najib worked as a darkroom technician and photographer for the photographic division of the American Colony directly under Lewis Larsson from the early 1920s through the mid-1930s. He worked primarily taking and developing film of archaeological sites in the greater Jerusalem area; however, he also worked developing motion pictures. He worked alongside his brother, Jamil Albina, in the photographic division. Many of the photographs taken by Najib, Jamil, and Lewis Larsson are publicly available through the Library of Congress.
caption: From Left to right: Jamil Albina, Najib Albina, and Lewis Larson developing motion picture film in the American Colony, Jerusalem. Circa 1934. Source: Library of Congress.[3]
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