Psalms' Reader
Yehoshua (Shuka) Glotman
1999
The book consists of Chinese bookmarks and color photographs. I don’t know what the bookmarks say, but I was referring to their formal quality. The photographs are mainly from the city of Lod, the area near the market. Lod is one of Israel’s most fascinating mixed Jewish-Arab cities. I tried to create a cultural distance between this rich and intense place in contrast to the Chinese bookmarks that are meaningless to me. The connection to Psalms is related to an appeal for assistance from a higher power, as soon as the individual feels the chaos of existence and the threat of insecurity. The photo on the cover is of the Baba Sali.
- Copies: 5
- Pages: 12
- Type of binding: Hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 24X17
- Publication: Meir Publishing House
- Place of publication: Abirim, Israel
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Yehoshua (Shuka) Glotman was born in 1953 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and lives and works in Abirim in the western Galilee. He is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and teacher, and is also a facilitator for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. Glotman studied in the photography department at Hadassah College in Jerusalem and the University of Westminster in London. His photography, photomontage and video work relate to the Israeli reality and its unique inter cultural situations. In 2015, he published a second edition of his artist book An Israeli’s Album, first published in the 1980s and became a cornerstone in the field of Israeli photography.
