Shmuel Joseph Schweig

Samuel Joseph Schweig, in Israel known as Shmuel Yosef Schweig (; 1905 in Tarnopol, Austria-Hungary – 19 March 1985 in Jerusalem, Israel) was an Israeli photographer.

Biography Early life in Europe Shmuel Joseph Schweig (S.J. Schweig) was a photographer born in 1905 in Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He showed interest in photography still while in Tarnopol and later studied it in Vienna.

After specialising in archaeological photography, he became the chief photographer of the Department of Antiquities of the Mandatory administration,

Book publications He worked at several archaeological publications and was in charge of the illustration and layout of the Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (editor Michael Avi-Yonah, Prentice-Hall, 1978).

Museums and archives The Schweig collection, which includes both glass and large gelatin negatives, is divided among the Israel Museum, the archive of the JNF, the Central Zionist Archives and the Rockefeller Museum. Many original prints, mostly small in size, are held by private collectors. Rudi Weissenstein (1910–1999), Israeli photographer, author of iconic Declaration of Independence picture