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April 9, 2014

Frédéric Brenner on the The New York Times Lens Blog

Embracing Ambiguity in Israel
Frédéric Brenner, photographer
The New York Times Lens Blog
April 9, 2014

 

 

Brenner
Frédéric Brenner: Netiv HaAsara, 2010

 

The New York Times featured a series of photographs by Frédéric Brenner titled Embracing Ambiguity in Israel on The Lens Blog. Brenner refers to this series on his website as an Archeology of Fear and Desire , which, is connected to a much larger project that he initiated called This Place.

 

All of this work was born of Brenner’s relentless pursuit of  his own identity (and seemingly all Jews on a certain level). For more than twenty years he has traced the Jewish Diaspora around the world to over 40 countries,  a trek that ultimately lead him to Israel —  both literally and conceptually  —  in an effort to define Jewish identity in the modern world.

 

This Place attempts to tackle this gargantuan task by unleashing a team of twelve photographers into Israel to compile a visual survey that digs deeper than the surface depictions popularized in the international news media.

 

From The Place website:

 

From the outset, Brenner acknowledged to himself that no single vantage point – including his own – could speak of the complexity of this historic and contested place and its shaping of contemporary lives; to begin to comprehend the radical dissonance of this place would require a multiplicity of practices and perspectives.

 

 

See the New York Time Lens Blog entry here
See more about Frédéric Brenner here
Go to This Place here

 

 

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