A German Melody
Yehoshua (Shuka) Glotman
2009
In 2009, I led a dialogue group in Berlin for young filmmakers from Germany and Israel. While they worked on their films, I took pictures using an analog camera and printed the photographs. In my study I had sketchbooks and other books, in which I edit my series. I pulled out one of the booklets from the shelf, which had the same number of pages as the number of photographs I had edited. Inside the booklet there was already a printed photo a sabra [cactus] plant. This coincidence highlighted for me the absent presence of Palestinians in the dialogue group I was leading. Later, I initiated a seminar called “Bermuda Triangle” where I asked six Palestinian, Jewish and German speakers to tell about their lives in a spontaneous way that connects the different narratives. This book, which is unique, also has a smaller size demo, and was displayed in the exhibition German Tune (curator: Tali Cohen-Garbuz, Gallery of Israeli Art, Kiryat Tivon Memorial Center, November 2010.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 22
- Type of binding: Softcover, Dummy: Hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 14.5X14.5
- Publication: self published
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Yehoshua (Shuka) Glotman was born in 1953 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and lives and works in Abirim in the western Galilee. He is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and teacher, and is also a facilitator for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. Glotman studied in the photography department at Hadassah College in Jerusalem and the University of Westminster in London. His photography, photomontage and video work relate to the Israeli reality and its unique inter cultural situations. In 2015, he published a second edition of his artist book An Israeli’s Album, first published in the 1980s and became a cornerstone in the field of Israeli photography.
