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Yoav Friedlander united states
title
A Form of View (the models)
My work is conjunction between Israel and America. It focuses on similarities and differences between two different cultures and sets of geographical locations seen through a perspective of an “Americanized Israeli
I grew up in the valleys of the Judean Desert between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. My perception is chaotic; composed of mediated American culture, desert landscapes, and war, which became integral in my life.
Various aspects of our reality, are being described by photographs and have never being experienced by us in person. Photographs have set the expectations for things we’ll might experience; at times we find ourselves considering what is real to be different from how it should be according to its own image.
I base my work on the recognition that our world is informed by images. Photographs represent and replace experiences, memories, landscapes and objects. Since the invention of the photograph, reality has become augmented by its own image.
Photography, that by then became more than a hobby, was interrupted by the army service. Therefore I had to shift from combat position to an administrative one that allowed me to follow my ambitions. In the fall of 2007, only 4 months after completing my mandatory service, I’ve started my B.A in Photography, at Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem.
After 4 years in college I’ve moved to New York to pursue my artistic ambitions and deepen my search in the medium of photography. 8 months after moving to New York I’ve started my MFA in Photography at the School Of Visual Arts, and I graduated in May 2014. New York became my personal diaspora, a distance from which I can examine my past and look into a present where I am acting as visitor rather than a participant.
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entry description
My Scale-models act much like photographs. They miniaturize a reality, space or an object; they share an indexical relation to the origin. Both enable external observation of a reality’s-proxy.My work is conjunction between Israel and America. It focuses on similarities and differences between two different cultures and sets of geographical locations seen through a perspective of an “Americanized Israeli
I grew up in the valleys of the Judean Desert between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. My perception is chaotic; composed of mediated American culture, desert landscapes, and war, which became integral in my life.
Various aspects of our reality, are being described by photographs and have never being experienced by us in person. Photographs have set the expectations for things we’ll might experience; at times we find ourselves considering what is real to be different from how it should be according to its own image.
I base my work on the recognition that our world is informed by images. Photographs represent and replace experiences, memories, landscapes and objects. Since the invention of the photograph, reality has become augmented by its own image.
about the photographer
I was born in Jerusalem and spent most of my life in my hometown town of Maale Adummim. Between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, on a limestone hill at the edge of the Judean mountains my perception of the world got its shape. After 18 years of preparations I’ve joined the army for a mandatory service of 3 years. I’ve started my service as a paratrooper and fulfilled my childhood dream of following my father’s footsteps. Throughout my combat training I’ve sneaked cameras or phones capable of capturing photos ( at the time it was a new thing). I wasn’t interested in documentation but in finding unique situations and training ground scenery that were inaccessible for me outside of the army.Photography, that by then became more than a hobby, was interrupted by the army service. Therefore I had to shift from combat position to an administrative one that allowed me to follow my ambitions. In the fall of 2007, only 4 months after completing my mandatory service, I’ve started my B.A in Photography, at Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem.
After 4 years in college I’ve moved to New York to pursue my artistic ambitions and deepen my search in the medium of photography. 8 months after moving to New York I’ve started my MFA in Photography at the School Of Visual Arts, and I graduated in May 2014. New York became my personal diaspora, a distance from which I can examine my past and look into a present where I am acting as visitor rather than a participant.
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