So Late So Soon
Avraham Eilat
2017
Photographs 1976‑2017
When I began photography in the mid-1960s, I was a young painter in the early stages of my career, and all of my creative efforts were directed towards drawing, painting, and prints. At a fairly early stage, I realized that photography contained possibilities that could launch into the values of painting, and at the same time, its inherent ability to accurately record reality added a dimension that could give the work additional depth and meaning.
The reason for creating this book stems from the desire to gather and piece together, from the multitude of photographs I have taken over 50 years, ones that will prove, first and foremost to myself, that there is something consistent in my way of looking at reality.
-- From the preface of the book by Avraham Eilat.
- Design: Nurit Blok
- Editing: Avraham Eilat
- Texts: Avraham Eilat, Joshua Sobol
- Language editing: Doron Narkiss, Mordechay Baran
- Copies: 300
- Pages: 138
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 30X22
- Printing: Millenium-Ayalon, Haifa
- Binding: Millenium-Ayalon, Haifa
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Independent
- Place of publication: Haifa
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 978-965-572-114-0
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Avraham Eilat (b. 1939) is an artist and curator who works in various fields of visual art. His works have been exhibited in many exhibitions in Israel and abroad, and are in the collections of the main museums in the country. In the 1960s, he studied at the "Atelier 17" for engraving in Paris and was accepted for advanced studies at the Saint Martin's School of Art. He has taught generations of artists; served as curator of photography at the Haifa Museum of Art, artistic director of the Museum of Photography in Tel Hai, founder of the Israeli Biennial of Photography at the Ein Harod Art Center, and more. He lives with his partner, Margol Gutman, in the Ein Hod Artists' Village.
