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Shpilman International Prize For Excellence In Photography
The Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography is an international bi-yearly photography prize awarded by Israel Museum in Jerusalem. History The Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography was created by Shalom Shpilman in 2010 and was awarded once a year. After the Shpilman Institute of Photography was closed in 2013, the Shpilman family endowed the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to award the prize every two years. The goal of the prize is to award individuals who work in photography. The prize money is 45000 USD The United States dollar (symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official .... The decision is made based on review by an international jury of five jurors, appointed by Israel Museum. Candidates are nominated by art professionals, working with Israel Museum. Winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Museum
The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopaedic museums. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, adjacent to the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Its holdings include the world's most comprehensive collections of the archaeology of the Holy Land, and Jewish art and life, as well as significant and extensive holdings in the fine arts, the latter encompassing eleven separate departments: Israeli Art, European Art, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Prints and Drawings, Photography, Design and Architecture, Asian Art, African Art, Oceanic Art, and Arts of the Americas. Among the unique objects on display are the Venus of Berekhat Ram, the interior of a 1736 Zedek ve Shalom synagogue from Sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shpilman Institute Of Photography
The Shpilman Institute for Photography (SIP) was an Israeli non profit organisation which promoted photography worldwide. History SIP was founded in 2010 Shalom Shpilman in order to promote photography as an art in Israel and worldwide. The institute, located in Tel Aviv, hosts exhibitions, lectures and various artistic activities by people in the field of photography and media art. The SIP also provides ground and holds academic research. It offers grants and scholarships to projects, both locally in Israel and internationally. In addition to hosting temporary exhibitions, the SIP had a permanent collection with over 900 works, including photographs by Erwin Blumenfeld, Frederick Sommer, Berenice Abbott, Arthur Siegel, Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Elliott Erwitt, Bill Brandt, Andre Breton, Claude Cahun, Salvador Dalí, Harry Callahan, Paul Heismann, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Adi Nes, Jeff Wall, Uri Gershuni, Ilit Azulay, Deganit Berest, Eli Lotar, Ohad Matalon, Lee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Heiman
Michal Heiman (Hebrew language, Hebrew: מיכל היימן, born in Tel Aviv) is a Tel Aviv-Yafo based artist, curator, theoretician and activist. She is the founder of the ''Photographer Unknown Archive'' (1984) and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests No. 1-4 (M.H.T). Her work bears on issues of history, human and women's rights, trauma, and memory, as well as an examination of the photographic medium, using reenactment, installation, archival materials, photographs, film, and lecture-performances. Heiman teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Artistic career For over three decades, since graduating from Art Studies at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, Hamidrash School of Art in 1984, Heiman has been developing a discipline that inhabits a field between photography, psychoanalysis, human rights, theory, and praxis model, praxis. Heiman's work has been exhibited in leading venues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Galassi
Peter Johnston Galassi (born April 18, 1951) is an American writer, curator, and art historian working in the field of photography. His principal fields are photography and nineteenth-century French art. Education Galassi graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1968. Galassi holds a B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College (1972) and a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University (1986). Life and work Galassi was Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1991 to 2011. He started his career at MoMA as a Curatorial Intern (1974–1975), Associate Curator (1981–1986), and Curator (1986–1991) working with photography curator John Szarkowski. After first organizing a Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit in 1987 as a photography curator at MoMA, he organized a larger Cartier-Bresson exhibit as chief curator of MoMA in 2010. He was replaced as chief curator of photography at MoMA in December 2012 by Quentin Bajac, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assaf Shaham
Assaf Shaham (Hebrew: אסף שחם; born 1983) is an Israeli artist. Biography Shaham was born in Jerusalem. He graduated from the Minshar School of Art in Tel Aviv in 2012. While still a student he was awarded the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography A year after his graduation he was awarded the Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist from Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Shaham studied at the Maumaus program in Lisbon and got his MFA from the University of Southern California. He divides his time between Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions * 2012. The king is dead, long live the king!, Tempo Rubato Gallery. * 2012. ''Assaf Shaham: New ways to steal old souls,'' Tel Aviv Museum of Art. * 2014. The Vision of Division, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv. * 2015. Division of the Vision, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. Awards * 2011. Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography. * 2012. The Constantiner Photography Award for and Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John P
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Broomberg And Oliver Chanarin
Adam Broomberg (born 1970) and Oliver Chanarin (born 1971) are artists living and working in London. Together they have had numerous international exhibitions. Their work is represented in major public and private collections. They were awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for their book ''War Primer 2'', described as a "book that physically inhabits the pages of Bertolt Brecht's remarkable 1955 publication ''War Primer''." They were awarded the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for their publication, ''Holy Bible''. Broomberg and Chanarin founded the imprint ''Chopped Liver Press'' to publish and sell their own books as well as those by other artists. Broomberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and Chanarin was born in London. Publications *''Trust.'' London: Westzone, 2000. *''Ghetto.'' London: Trolley, 2003. *''Mr Mkhize's Portrait.'' London: Trolley, 2004. . *''Chicago.'' SteidlMACK, 2006. *''Fig.'' Göttingen: Steidl; Brighton: Photoworks, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodo Von Dewitz
Bodo Balthasar von Dewitz (11 April 1950 – 17 November 2017) was a German art historian. His work focused on historical photography. Life was born in Göttingen. After starting a commercial apprenticeship in the art trade, he studied German, history and education in Hamburg from 1971 to 1976. After the Staatsexamen, he studied art history in Berlin and Hamburg from 1977 to 1985, graduating with a doctorate (Dr. phil.) under Martin Warnke. While still a student, he inventoried the daguerreotype collection at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. In 1985, he took over the management of the in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum/Museum Ludwig in Cologne. He later became head of the photographic collections and deputy director of the Museum Ludwig. Dewitz retired in spring 2013. In 2004, the Faculty of Philosophy of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, where he had been teaching since 1989, awarded him the title of Honorary Professor. Dewitz died in Bonn at the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Oppenheim
Lisa Oppenheim (born 1975) is an American multimedia artist. Education Lisa Oppenheim was born in New York City in the year of 1975. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1998, concentrating in Modern Culture and Media, Art and Semiotics. In 2001, she earned her MFA in Film and Video from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. She completed a Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2003. She also completed the Rijksakademie van beeldedne kunsten' in Amsterdam from 2004-2006. Work Oppenheim's work plays with the process of creating photographs and film. Her pieces often question the documentary genre as well as the concept of an archives. In utilizing archival sources, she interrogates and reappropriates the archival function of narrative-making and -omitting, and how narrative and imagery are intertwined but ultimately separate. In work such as ''Lunagrams'', 2010, in which she exposed archival glass negatives using moonlight, Oppenheim ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quentin Bajac
Quentin Bajac (born 1965) is a French museum curator and art historian specialising in the history of photography. He is the director of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. Bajac has held positions at the Musée d'Orsay (1995–2003), Centre Georges Pompidou (2003–2010), Musée National d'Art Moderne and École du Louvre (2010–2013) and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (2013–2018). He has published a number of works on photography, most notably the three-volume series——on the history of photography (2000–2010), which belongs to the collection ''Découvertes Gallimard'', as well as ''Parr by Parr: Discussions with a Promiscuous Photographer'' (2011), ''Stephen Shore: Solving Pictures'' (2017), ''Being Modern: MoMA in Paris'' (co-author with Olivier Michelon, 2017). In 2013 Bajac was made a Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Career After gaining a diploma of the Institut national du patrimoine, Bajac was appointed Curator of Photography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Servet Koçyiğit
Servet Kocyigit (born 1971) is a Turkish-Dutch visual artist based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Biography Kocyigit was born in 1971 in Kaman, Turkey. He studied art at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and currently lives and works between Amsterdam and Istanbul. He participated in several artist residency programs: De Ateliers Amsterdam, Holland (1999), Wilhelm Lehmbruck Residency Duisburg, Germany (2000), JCVA Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts, Israel (2006), JoBurg Now, Johannesburg, South Africa (2016). Exhibitions Koçyiğit work was exhibited internationally, including galleries, art institutions and museums in Holland, Turkey, France, Germany, Brazil, Israel, China and Italy. Servet Kocyigit's solo exhibitions includes those at Rampa Gallery in Istanbul, Officine Dell’Immagine in Milan, Outlet Independent Art Space in Istanbul, Givon Art Gallery in Tel Aviv, Netherlands Photo Museum in Rotterdam, Israel Museum, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art and Haifa Museu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
