This Place

Renowned photographers look at Israel and the West Bank Important contribution to the discussion of the Middle East conflict Large exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Berlin

This Place is a monumental art project that explores Israel and the West Bank, as place and metaphor, through the eyes of twelve internationally celebrated photographers. Their photographs question the history, the divisions, and paradoxes of the region and its inhabitants. Marked by the photographers' differing visual vocabularies, nationalities, and cultural backgrounds, the picture that emerges is not a single, monolithic vision, but rather a diverse and fragmented portrait. The images have previously been shown in renowned museums such as DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Now, the project culminates in this retrospective volume, which contains more than 200 spectacular photographs and views of the exhibition, as well as essays by distinguished curators on the project's history and its meaning for today's political and cultural discourse.

FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHS BY
Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington

EXHIBITION
Jewish Museum Berlin
June 7, 2019January 5, 2020 FRÉDÉRIC BRENNER (*1959) is known for exploring questions of longing, belonging and exclusion. His major opus, Diaspora: Homelands in Exile is the result of a twenty-five-year search in over forty countries to create a visual record of the Jewish people at the end of the twentieth century. He has published seven books, his most recent book is An Archeology of Fear and Desire (2014). He lives in Berlin and Jerusalem.

Autorentext
FRÉDÉRIC BRENNER (*1959) ist bekannt für seine fotografische Erforschung von Sehnsucht, Zugehörigkeit und Ausgeschlossensein. Sein Werk Diaspora, Homelands in Exile ist Resultat einer 25-jährigen Recherche in über 40 Ländern, um ein visuelles Gedächtnis jüdischer Menschen am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zu schaffen. Seine letzte Publikation ist An Archeology of Fear and Desire (2014). Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Jerusalem.

Klappentext

This Place is a monumental art project that explores Israel and the West Bank, as place and metaphor, through the eyes of twelve internationally celebrated photographers. Their photographs question the history, the divisions, and paradoxes of the region and its inhabitants. Marked by the photographers' differing visual vocabularies, nationalities, and cultural backgrounds, the picture that emerges is not a single, monolithic vision, but rather a diverse and fragmented portrait. The images have previously been shown in renowned museums such as DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Now, the project culminates in this retrospective volume, which contains more than 200 spectacular photographs and views of the exhibition, as well as essays by distinguished curators on the project's history and its meaning for today's political and cultural discourse.

FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHS BY Frédéric Brenner, Wendy Ewald, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington

EXHIBITION Jewish Museum Berlin June 7, 2019-January 5, 2020