Thinker Series: Zvi Efrat
‘This Place’ explores the complexity of Israel and the West Bank, as place and metaphor, through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers. Their highly individualized works combine to create not a single, monolithic vision, but rather a diverse and fragmented portrait, alive to all the rifts and paradoxes of this important and much contested space.
The project follows in the tradition of such projects as the Mission Héliographique in nineteenth-century France and the Farm Security Administration in the United States, which gathered artists who use photography to ask essential questions about culture, society and the inner lives of individuals. Initiated by photographer Frederic Brenner, the completed project consists of a traveling exhibition, companion publications and a program of live events.
The artists began their residencies in Israel with an exploratory mission, in which they traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank and met with a variety of thinkers. ‘This Place’ initiator Frederic Brenner later filmed interviews with many of these thinkers. Here are some highlights from one of the twelve: Zvi Efrat
Zvi Efrat is an architect, historian, and architecture critic. He is the head of the School of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem and the editor of Studio Art Magazine. His work deals with the intricacies of territorial and regional planning, town planning, public and private building design, and landscaping.
In the following videos, he explores the links between geography and history in the building of the State of Israel.
See more on the Thinker Series (link on the bottom of the page).
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