Gray Aspirations
Oded Yedaya
2003
In Gray Aspirations, Yedaya continues to blend the abstract and documentary aspects of photography with the signs and meanings of writing. The photographs were taken with a handheld digital video camera, a companion through life. The visual sequence was dismantled in editing into fragmented, frozen moments, and reassembled along a narrative line, imbuing it with new meanings and connections.
The text is a long poem divided into eight chapters, corresponding to the story’s secondary characters. Alternating within it are everyday and ceremonial speech, lyrical folktales, and philosophical or simplistic modes of expression. The book was published by Keter Publishing House.
- Editing: Ariela Azoulay, Zali Gurevitz, Dalia Levin, Ronit Yedaya
- Texts: Oded Yedaya
- Language editing: Yehudit Binfeld
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 243
- Type of binding: Soft Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 22X17
- Printing: Keter Press
- Binding: Keter Press
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Keter Books
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Book photography: Leafing Magasine
- ISBN: 965-07-1245-3
Oded Yedaya (born 1949) is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist, founder and director of the Minshar School of Art. Yedaya was born and raised in Kibbutz Hanita, served as an officer in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit, and studied photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He began his artistic career in the 1980s, after returning from his studies, focusing at that time mainly on family photography. During this period, he published his first photography book and exhibition under the title Personal Document. His work is characterized by the integration of handwritten or printed texts layered onto his photographs. In his recent work, Yedaya explores the political role of photography.
