On View Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 38
THIS PLACE:
Israel Through Photography’s Lens
Norton Museum of Art is the first US
venue to host This Place, an international
photo exhibition about Israel.
This Place unveils twelve contemporary photographic vantage points upon Israel and the
West Bank, created primarily
between 2009 and 2012. The
photographers represented
in the exhibition are Frédéric
Brenner (France), Wendy
Ewald (US), Martin Kollar
(Slovakia), Josef Koudelka
Above: Wendy Ewald,
Untitled (photograph by Aviad),
2013; © Wendy Ewald.
Right: Frédéric Brenner,
The Aslan Levi Family, 2010;
© Frédéric Brenner,
courtesy Howard Greenberg
Gallery.
(Czech Republic), Jungjin
Lee (S. Korea), Gilles Peress
(France), Fazal Sheikh (US),
Stephen Shore (US), Rosalind
Fox Solomon (US), Thomas
Struth (Germany), Jeff Wall
(Canada), and Nick Waplington (UK). Together, they act as
a heterogeneous narrative of
a conflicted, paradoxical and