Runways
Naomi Leshem, Peter Röllin (Editor), Michael Guggenheimer (Editor)
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About the book
German, English
- ISBN: 978-3-7165-1582-2
- Pages: 112
- Binding: Hardcover
- Published: 3/2009
- Illustrations: 52 illustrations
- Dimensions: 24 x 27 cm
Places of Disappearance and Death
The photographer Naomi Leshem from Tel-Aviv tells stories of disappearance and death – images of ambivalent beauty, so close to both life and death, embedded in the barren landscape of Israel. Like Memento mori, they are symbols in the midst of life and its always incomplete transience. These pictures run and rush toward death and its inevitability, thus forming, like natural changes, a new experience of life.
Author
Naomi Leshem
Naomi Leshem, born in Jerusalem in 1963, lives and works in Qiriat-Ono near Tel Aviv. Since 1996 she has been lecturer for photography at various colleges in Israel, including the Photography College in Kiryat Ono as well as – from 1998 to 2005 – the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Editor
Peter Röllin
Peter Röllin was born in 1946 in St. Gallen. He has a Ph. D. in Cultural Studies and Art History and lives and works in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, as a lecturer, journalist, researcher, art expert, and curator. His specialties include cultural history and contemporary cultural work, along with the processes and experience of spatial transformation, the theory and practice of architecture and urban planning, and cultural projects and art interpretation.
Editor
Michael Guggenheimer
As freelance journalist and photographer in Zurich, Michael Guggenheimer grew up in Tel Aviv and Amsterdam. After studying Contemporary History and Social Psychology, he first became a newspaper editor before working for seven years in public relations for cultural projects in Eastern Switzerland and for thirteen years as press spokesman and head of the Department of Communications at the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia.