Concrete
Eldad Menuchin
2013
Like a pilgrimage, photographer Eldad Menuchin returns to recover and uncover his sites; the housing quarters of Arad; baptism celebration in the Jordan River; the IDF graduation parade of young officers. Menuchin tries excavating the visible past, believing that in the visual remains he will find reflections on ideologies that seem to disappear.
The photographs in this book are out to trace and convey lost times, as they reveal themselves to the present. Menuchin escorts his viewers back in time through his childhood memories, in a land that is consistently in search of its Identity and structure.
Concrete was in massive use throughout the founding and construction of the new state. It held the hope for independence, liberty, and modernization. These structures symbolize a dream that has worn out, and nowadays seems grey, eroded, and dusty.
- Copies: 27
- Pages: 80
- Type of binding: hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 30X42
- Binding: Zeev Kanan
- Type of printing: B&W Laser
- Publication: Self-publishing
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Photographer and artist, born in Jerusalem.
A member of "Indie Photography Group gallery," and a graduate of Hadassah College and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Between 2013–2015, he was a member of "HaAgaf HaSheni" and a founding partner of "Sha'ar 3" in Haifa.
Recipient of the Encouragement of Creativity Award from the Ministry of Culture (2016). His books Concrete and Abusura were shortlisted at the Kassel Photobook Festival and the Athens Photo Festival.
He has held solo exhibitions at Indie Gallery, the Municipal Gallery in Rishon LeZion, the Jerusalem Artists' House, the Midrasha Gallery at Beit Berl, and Bezalel 7 Image Room.
He has also exhibited in group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at the Morel Derfler Gallery in Musrara, the Photography Museum in Tel Hai Industrial Park (Tefen), Inga Gallery, the International Photography Festival, One Akaretler (Istanbul), and more.
