Positive Images for Field and Forest
Michelangelo
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Route 40
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Sharon Ya’ari
Positive Images for Field and ForestAll projects
Several exhibition and installation strategies are applied to images selected from a collection. These collections of 35 mm slides from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s were used for educational purposes. The first set of slides were taken between the Six Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973), and comprise images of landscapes taken by amateur photographers. These photographers were participating in a long-established educational practice of hiking through the land of Palestine/Israel to deepen their love and connection to it (in Hebrew, this practice is referred to as yediat haaretz, meaning literally, “Knowing the Land”).
The second set of slides were used in the context of academic lectures on Renaissance art, and include reproductions of sculptures by Michelangelo taken from classical art books. Over the years, identical sculptures were photographed using different lighting and then printed in a range of qualities in various art books. The slides were damaged, scratched and faded over time. The process of scanning the slides arrests this transformation. The damaged, reddish and faded images have been printed and blown up for photographic installation on various scales.
