This Place was a global art project that explored the complexity of

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 ...

and the

West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

through the eyes of twelve photographers: Frédéric Brenner,

Gilles Peress Gilles Peress (born December 29, 1946) is a French photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. Peress began working with photography in 1970, having previously studied political science and philosophy in Paris. One of Peress' first projects exa ...

(France);

Wendy Ewald Wendy Ewald (born 1951) is an American photographer and educator. Early life and education Wendy Ewald was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from Abbot Academy in 1969 and attended Antioch College between 1969 and 1974, as well as the Massac ...

, Fazal Sheikh,

Stephen Shore Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include ''Uncommon Places'' (1982) and ''American Surfaces'' (199 ...

Rosalind Solomon Rosalind Fox Solomon (born 1930) is an American photographer based in New York City. Life and education Solomon was born on 2 April 1930 in Highland Park, Illinois.Martin Kollar Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austral ...

(Slovakia); Josef Koudelka (Czech Republic);

Jungjin Lee Jungjin Lee (born 1961) is a Korean photographer and artist who currently lives and works in New York City. Background Jungjin Lee was born in Korea in 1961. She studied calligraphy in childhood and majored in ceramics at Hongik University, g ...

(South Korea);

Thomas Struth Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his ''Museum Photographs'' series, family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s. Struth lives ...

(Germany);

Jeff Wall Jeffrey Wall, Order of Canada, OC, Royal Society of Canada, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he helped define the Van ...

(Canada); and Nick Waplington (Britain). Each photographer created works in response to his or her own experience in the area; a total of over 500 images were exhibited internationally and published in a series of monographs.

History

Initiated by Frédéric Brenner, the project followed in the tradition of endeavors such as the Missions Héliographiques in nineteenth-century France and the

Farm Security Administration The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States. It succeeded the Resettlement Administration (1935–1937). The FSA is famous for its small but ...

in the United States, which gathered artists who used photography to ask essential questions about culture, society and the inner lives of individuals. Each artist spent about six months in residence, traveling throughout

and the

, following his or her own line of investigation. Brenner offered the photographers initial exploratory visits, so they could decide if, and how, they wanted to be involved with the project. According to ''Time'': "This Place is not an act of photojournalism, nor does it contain — or send – a clear, unified message."

Exhibitions

The completed work was organized into an exhibition, curated by Charlotte Cotton, who stated that “Each artist has created a profound and personal narration of Israel and the West Bank, that, collectively, act a series of guides, leading the viewer into a deeper identification with the complexities and conflicts of the Holy Land." The exhibition was scheduled to open at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague on October 24, 2014, thereafter traveling to the

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and aroun ...

, the

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

, the Norton Museum of Art, and other museums in Europe, the United States, and Asia.

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