Walls and Spirit
Tali Amitai‑Tabib
2011
103 Study Rooms of Writers and Poets
In "Walls and Spirit" Tali Amitai-Tabib continues her long-running dialogue with various forms of artistic expression in public spaces vacated of people, such as libraries, museums and concert halls. Amitai Tabib researches in this exhibition study rooms, also vacated of people, the intimate spaces of writers and poets, which capture the personality, the work method, perhaps even the soul of the artists. Amitai-Tabib's photographs, which appear in a book published in January 2011 by Am Oved, allow us a peek behind the screens, to places never-before exposed, where the creation, familiar to the public, was born, and maybe even to another added value of the written work created in those spaces.
- Design: Tamir Lahav Redlmesser
- Editing: Tamir Lahav Redlmesser
- Texts: Ronit Matalon, Tali Amitai-Tabib
- Translation: Vivian Aden
- Copies: 500
- Pages: 143
- Type of binding: קשה
- Dimensions (cm): 24.5X27.5
- Type of printing: אופסט
- Publication: Am Oved Ldd
- Place of publication: Israel
- Supported by: Mrs. Chava Glor, the Book and Libraries Center in Israel, the Enterprise for New Initiatives in Hebrew Literature with the assistance of the Director of Culture
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 978-965-13-2206-8
Tali Amitai-Taviv was born in 1953 in Kibbutz Kinneret. In her youth, she began to engage in photography as a self-taught artist. For many years she worked in photo labs and specialized in artistic prints. Her early works, from the late 1990s, dealt with landscape photography and the relationship between nature and man. Since then, her photographs have been devoted to documenting cultural buildings - libraries, museums, and other sites.
