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Runways: Allemand/Anglais - Hardcover

Leshem, Naomi

 
9783716515822: Runways: Allemand/Anglais

Synopsis

Runways addresses disappearance and death in sites of personal loss. These are images of ambivalent beauty, so close to both life and death. In these photographs, which she took with medium-format cameras, the photographer Naomi Leshem tells stories of disappearance and death. A road in the Arabah Desert where a young woman died in a motor-cycle accident. A place in the Negev Desert where, despite a twelve-hour trip by car, parents drive several times a year to mourn the loss of their son. Or the Sea of Galilee, where a military pilot lost control of his plane and crashed at top speed into the water's peaceful, deep blue surface. Leshem searched for such sites of disappearance and death. Like memento mori in Israel's landscape, they are symbols in the midst of life and its always incomplete transience.

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About the Author

Naomi Leshem was born in Jerusalem in 1963 and now lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. Since 1996, she has taught photography at several universities in Israel, including the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono and, from 1998 to 2005, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Her photographs are in private and public collections in Israel, the United States, and Europe and have been exhibited in Israel (Israel Museum Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum), New York and Vienna. Michael Guggenheimer is a freelance journalist and photographer in Zurich. Peter Rollin lives and works in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, as a lecturer, journalist, researcher, art expert and curator.

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Bilingue : Allemand, Anglais

Places of Disappearance and Death

The photographer Naomi Leshem from Tel-Aviv tells stories of disappearance and death - images of ambivalent beauty, so close to both life and death, embedded in the barren landscape of Israel. Like Memento mori, they are symbols in the midst of life and its always incomplete transience. These pictures run and rush toward death and its inevitability, thus forming, like natural changes, a new experience of life.

Orte des Verschwindens und Vergehens

"Runways" handelt vom Verschwinden und Vergehen, von persönlichen Orten des Verlustes in Landschaften Israels. Bilder von ambivalenter Schönheit, so nah zwischen Leben und Tod. Die quadratformatigen, analog aufgenommenen Bilder der in Tel Aviv lebenden und lehrenden Fotografin Naomi Leshem erzählen Geschichten vom Verschwinden und Vergehen. Eine Strasse in der Arava-Wüste, die Stelle, wo eine junge Motorfahrerin in den Tod gefahren ist. Ein Ort in der Negev-Wüste, wo Eltern trotz zwölf Stunden Autofahrt mehrmals im Jahr hinfahren, um den Verlust ihres Sohnes zu betrauern. Oder der See Genezareth, wo ein Militärpilot die Kontrolle über seine Maschine verloren hatte und mit voller Wucht am ruhigen und tiefblauen Seespiegel zerschellt ist. Naomi Leshem ist solchen Orten des Verschwindens und Trennens nachgegangen. "Runways" mit den grob hin geklatschten, pechschwarzen Reifenabrieben stehen auch für Innehalten in einer schnelllebigen, den Tod vergessenden Zeit. Sie stehen wie ein Memento mori als Sinnbilder mitten im Leben und seiner nie abgeschlossenen Vergänglichkeit. Die Bilder rennen und schreiten gegen den unausweichlichen Tod und formen so wie der Wechsel der Natur neues Erfahren von Leben.

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