Exhibitions/Curating

During my nearly four decades long career and in the field of photography and in my capacity of senior curator at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem I had the opportunity to conceive and create over 180 exhibitions worldwide, from Japan through Europe to the West Coast (installation views), and traveling shows, most of them accompanied with books or catalogs.

Based on my knowledge and experience I propose to develop projects (exhibitions and publications) in both historic and contemporary photography, thematic exhibitions, group and one person shows for photographers.

Currently I am working on a new exhibition and book on Manuel Alvarez Bravo with mostly unpublished photographs that will shed light on hitherto undisclosed facets of his art, his vision and mode of thinking.

I am listed among the Israeli curators on TheArtLab site.

A selection from the exhibitions I curated:

  • Threefold: Nir Evron – 2015
  • Words as Image: Texts in Photographs –  2014
  • Displaced Visions: Emigré Photographers of the 20th Century – 2013
  • Double Take: The Tanenbaum and Willens Collections – 2012
  • Eugène Atget: As Paris Was – 2012
  • Out of North Africa: Jewish Life in the Maghreb – 2011
  • Helmar Lerski: Working Hands – 2011
  • A Rare Gift: The Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photographs – 2010
  • Engagement: Israeli Photography Now – 2008
  • Picturing Jerusalem: James Graham and Mendel Diness, Photographers – 2007 (New York)
  • Art of Living: Contemporary Photography from Israel – 2006 (San Francisco)
  • Beyond Time: Photographs from the Gary B. Sokol Collection – 2006
  • All That’s Not Me: Kimiko Yoshida, Photographs – 2005
  • Camera Sacra: Capturing the Soul of Nature – 2005
  • Uppenbarat: Fotografier av Jesus – 2004 (Stockholm)
  • Revelation: Representations of Christ in Photography – 2004 (Hamburg, Lund)
  • Corpus Christi: L’image du Christ en photographies, 1939-2003 – 2003 (Paris)
  • Red in Black and White: Photography in the Soviet Union – 2001
  • Travelogue 1927: Photographs by Luciano Morpurgo in Mandatory Palestine – 2001
  • Time Frame: A Century of Photography in the Land of Israel – 2000
  • Under Ottoman Rule: Once Upon a Time in the Near East – 1999 (Istanbul)
  • Condition Report: Contemporary Photography in Israel Today – 1998
  • Eternal Dialogue: Photographing Jerusalem – 1996
  • My Way: Tim Gidal – 1995
  • Michal Rovner: One Person Game Against Nature – 1994
  • Photography and Beyond : New Expressions in France – 1992
  • Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East (1839‑1885) – 1988 (Jerusalem, Paris, San Diego, Miami)
  • Erich Salomon: From a Photographer’s Life – 1986
  • Statements in Color: Contemporary Photography – 1984
  • Dreams ‑ Visions – Metaphors: The Photographs of Manuel Alvarez Bravo – 1983 (Jerusalem, Bradford, Helsinki)
  • André Kertész: Photographs of a Lifetime – 1982
  • Happy Accidents: Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, Ready Mades and Photographs – 1982
  • Here and Now: Israeli Photography Today – 1982
  • Video Now: Video art by Israeli Artists – 1982
  • The Third Dimension: Holograms – 1981
  • Face and Body: Fashion and Portrait Photography Between the Wars – 1981
  • Bill Brandt: Photographs (1930‑1980) – 1980
  • Photographs from the Dan Berley Collection – 1980
  • Arnold Newman: Portraits – 1979