FITFTY

FIFTY is a book by the respected filmmaker Danny Schneor, featuring street photography he has taken around the world over the past fifty years.

“Wandering, strangeness, and loneliness are my starting points in my search for beauty that appears in so many forms: in the simplicity of the everyday and the humanity of the moment,” writes Schneor. “I maintain a certain distance, don’t interfere, take pictures, and move on. Creating the flow and rhythm of the images in the book was like editing a movie for me.”

Director and screenwriter Eitan Green wrote about the book: "At the center of the book, mainly people and in banal circumstances. This is Danny Schneur's eye looking at them, ordinary people in ordinary situations, and saving them from the too simple or simplistic in a way that has respect and even love, and this gaze of Danny's becomes our gaze as we turn page after page in the book... What floats, hovers, and emerges from the book is a portrait of a man - Danny, who walks among and alongside these figures, looks at them, photographs, and composes the image of his own face. The face of the lonely photographer. The one who chose solitude and also fights against it. The one who distances himself from people and at the same time embraces them into his pictures. These anonymous people, captured by the camera's eye, thus suddenly become part of his world, which he seeks to share with us."