Bauhaus travels

April 27, 2009 - 8:37 AM by Jessica

If you can’t make it to Tel Aviv this year to celebrate its centennial birthday, there’s a great traveling exhibit by a favorite photographer of mine, Yigal Gawze, showing his collection of Bauhaus photos, Fragments of a Style. The exhibit opened in Chicago, recently moved to San Francisco, and will then be moved to Europe, including the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau, Germany, as part of the 90th Anniversary of the Bauhaus school.

What’s really lovely about Yigal’s photos in this exhibit is that he hones in on the details and sunlit curves that we all see in Tel Aviv, but in a much gentler light on the normally harshly sunlit buildings.

In his explanation of the photos, Yigal writes:

“It was during the winter season, when the normally harsh outdoor light was softer and more easily tamed, and the white facades stood out against the backdrop of the deep blue sky. I was a tourist in my hometown, and my eyes developed a new sensitivity to my surroundings.
I chose to work in color (in contrast to the historical documents and the modern photographic work done on the subject), in order to better convey the character and the atmosphere created by the local light. The shadow of the palm tree falling on the white facade represents the special encounter that takes place in Tel Aviv between a building style originating in Europe and the Mediterranean glare.

From the start, I chose to focus on the fragments. I felt that I could capture the spirit of this architecture by focusing on an essential part of the structure, which carries within it the genetic code of the whole. It was also an attempt to convey something of the utopia of the years which saw the building of the ‘White City’. Only in the last part of the work, did I step back to deal with the whole building and its relationship to the street as part of the city.”

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4 Comments on Bauhaus travels

  1. sameh on Mon, Apr 27th 2009 1:23 PM

    2. I am very happy with the privilege to be in your personal record and I like that my admiration for this great site of the most wonderful

  2. Claire Jerusalemi on Wed, May 6th 2009 2:27 PM

    3. There is a beautiful exhibition about Tel Aviv – The white city, presented now in Brussels

  3. MrAlex78able on Sun, Jun 14th 2009 8:46 PM

    4. I like it.

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