Frederic Brenner/A.B. Yehoshua - Israel
| Conditie | uitstekend [stofomslag buiten beschouwing gelaten] |
| Aantal pagina`s | 192 |
| Uitgavejaar | 1988 [First US Edition] |
| Uitgegeven door | Harper & Row |
| Kaft | grijs linnen hardcover met zilveropdruk op de rug |
| Stofomslag | ja [stofomslag 1 hoekje beschadigd] |
| ISBN | 9780060159597 |
| Code [intern] | NUMA |
Beschrijving boek
Translated from the Hebrew by Philip Simpson.
This magnificent book is an eloquent evocation of Israel and its people. It is the result of a collaboration between two internationally renowned artists: A.B. Yehoshua, one of Israel’s most distinguished writers, and Frédéric Brenner, the recipient of three of France’s major awards for photography.
How Frédéric Brenner and A.B. Yehoshua see the landscape and people of Israel, what their views have in common and how they diverge constitute the essence of their exchange - one expressing himself in images and the other in words. Theirs is also a dialogue between an Israeli Jew and a Jew of the Diaspora. Born in Jerusalem, A.B. Yehoshua is the descendant of five generations of Israeli Jews. Frédéric Brenner was born in Paris of Ashkenazic [Russian] and Sephardic [Algerian] origins.
Superb portraits of the people of Israel are among the more than 100 color and duotone photographs that illustrate the extremes of the country’s physical and human landscapes. Together, writer and photographer explore the Israeli character, revealing the sharp cultural differences among Jews of different origins as well as between Jew and Arab. They examine the trauma of a homeland shared between two peoples, recount Israel’s recent history, evoke the rich legacy of the past and describe the glories of Jerusalem.
The result is a memorable work.
