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Human figures from old photographs (from interwar Poland) incorporated into contemporary landscape images using computer editing software.
I found the photos, which had been collected from the Polish community during the 1950’s and 1960’s, by a dumpster near the Center for the Association of Polish Immigrants, located on Dizengoff street in Tel Aviv, until the offices were evacuated in mid 1990’s. The photos were used to create a memorial (Yahrzeit) book for the community. In the past it was common to receive free enlargements when developing a photographic film in the local lab. 70 years later, the figures receive the free enlargement that they are owed, only this time within a distinctly digital environment. They offer an opportunity to examine the visual history of Israeli and Jewish identities and explore the nature of collective memory and its fabrication.
