TODA VIDA
Galia Gur Zeev
2015
Toda Vida, in Portuguese “all life,”' or, alternatively, “all the way, till the end,” is an extraordinary artist’s book, designed as an interior design magazine. The book describes, through a series of photographs, the emptying out of Gur Zeev’s parents’ house. Alongside this series are photographs from the Brazilian magazine Manchete (headline)—a magazine that was frequently present at her parents’ home, along with slides and family photographs from the early 1960s, when the family lived in Rio de Janeiro. The family photos and slides are assimilated into the magazine and become part of it, with the characters appearing unidentified.
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 174
- Type of binding: softcover
- Printing: A.R. Printing LTD
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Sterenthal Books
- Place of publication: Israel
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Galia Gor Zeev, born in Tel Aviv-Yafo in 1954. Graduated from photography studies at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Between 1992 and 2009 she founded and managed the Limbos Gallery, a place for photography. Photographer, photography lecturer, and curator. In her works, Gor Ze'ev deals with her family and her immediate environment, as a way to touch on broader issues such as family, loss, and memory. Her works are in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the Mishkent Shananim Collection in Jerusalem, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Shoken Collection, and private collections.
