Half a Mega of Memories
Noa Ben-Nun Melamed
2008
My artist’s book and exhibition originated in trauma: the sudden death of my husband. I photographed my immediate surroundings in an intimate manner—the curtain at home, marks in the sand left by children on the beach, a lifeless bird, wallpaper in a coffee shop. All these images capture for me inner sights and moments that forever remain transient. The experience of death and loss is aestheticized and structured as well as the experience of renewal and life.
My minimalistic photos, originating in the world of reality, are juxtaposed in the book with short poems which I wrote for the first time in my life. In neither language do I speak in prose.
- Copies: 1000
- Pages: 72
- Type of binding: Hardcover, clothbound
- Dimensions (cm): 19.5X23
- Printing: Kal
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Hakibutz Hmeuhad Publication
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv
- Supported by: Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas, Shiraz Grinbaum
- ISBN: 003100047609
Noa Ben-Nun Melamed (b. Haifa, 1954) lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo. She is a graduate of the Department of Photography at Hadassah College in Jerusalem and arts education at Hamidrasha, Beit Berl College. She hold a master’s degree in group art-therapy from Lesley University. Ben-Nun Melamed has been involved in photography for over three decades, as a photographer, teacher, curator, and editor. Her works deal with memory, death, transience and myth—sometimes from biographical contexts that examine the encounter between private and national myth, often in relation to the sea. In 2020, she won the Enrique Kavlin Prize Lifetime Achievement Award for Photography from the Israel Museum.
