Photographs / Gilah Shrafshtain tatslumim.

Scharfstein, Ghela

Published by Ramat Gan: Museum of Israeli Art, 1994

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very good hardcover with illustrated covers, text in Hebrew and English. INSCRIBED on front endpaper (Hebrew section): To my dearest (two names mentioned), SIGNED Ghela. SCHARFSTEIN, GHELA. Photographs / Gilah Shrafshtain tatslumim. Ramat Gan: Museum of Israeli Art, 1994, 32pp., . Opening June 1st, 2000. - About my photographs: I quote Rilke now, as I have quoted him in the past, because I have lived with him for many years, and because he expresses with great verbal intensity what I was able to say only wordlessly, with my camera. The black and white pictures of my mother that I showed in the past were for me a terrifying vision. Those I am showing now, of my grandchild, are of a person who is discovering - unmasking - herself, eager, radiant, hesitant, beginning to fly into all the adventures of living. At the moment, I know what I want of photography. It is not to make technically or artistically perfect pictures, and it is not to serve any intellectual conception of what photography is or should be. Instead, it is to catch and extend my feelings about people. I photograph those I love intensely. That is what starts the picture. But what interests me most is the state of being the people are distilled into, the moment of life they are living, the soul showing through the body. And I use the camera, as only it can be used, to help - the jewel negative that has always fascinated me, for my mother, and the vibrancy that a slow shutter records for my granddaughter. Ghela Scharfstein. May, 2000. Seller Inventory # 94540

Bibliographic Details

Title: Photographs / Gilah Shrafshtain tatslumim.

Publisher: Ramat Gan: Museum of Israeli Art, 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)