General Allenby’s Showcase
France Lebée‑Nadav
2018
The project was photographed during four years of random or spontaneous wanderings on Allenby Street - a place that is changing at a dizzying pace. This is not a wandering in which the gaze nonchalantly scans the urban landscape. Still, the gaze is focused on fragments, like breaks in the plot sequence of a novel, a gaze that tries to penetrate the surface bearing signs and symbols, which create puzzles that cannot always be deciphered. The project aims to be a personal catalog of the visual abundance offered by Allenby Street, with its historical and cultural past hinted at through reflections in the shop windows.
- Design: Studio Z
- Texts: Gilad Melze, Ilanit Konpony, Nissim Davidoff
- Translation: Yael Klein
- Language editing: Vovoam Eden
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 210
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 22.5X23
- Printing: A.R. Printing LTS., Tel-Aviv
- Binding: A.R. Printing LTS., Tel-Aviv
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: New World Press (Olam Hadash Books)
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Supported by: The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 978-965-7653-59-3
France Lebée-Nadav, born in Paris in 1965, lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Lebée-Nadav is a graduate of the Department of Photography at Hadassah College, Jerusalem. A photographer and teacher of photography, her works engage the photographic traditions of still life and urban landscape as she documents the seams that separate interior and exterior, private and public, living and still-life.


