A photographic exploration of the solemn city
Jerusalem's southwestern edge, housing both the nation's main military cemetery and the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum, has a solemn tint to it unfound anywhere else in the world. The localization of the nation's grief has created a dissonance in the area, which is explored to full effect this month in a photo exhibit at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
Curated by Professor Yeshayahu Nir, who heads Hadassah College's Communications Photography department, the show will feature the work of photographers looking at the nation's confrontation and connection with the Holocaust and its memory and place in Jerusalem.
The show is fittingly called Hahar V'Hazikaron, which translates to the Mount and the Remembrance, a nod to Yad Vashem's location atop a picturesque Jerusalem Hills mountain and its proximity to Har Herzl, the military cemetery. The pictures in the exhibit were taken at various points around Yad Vashem's sprawling 180 dunam (45 acre) site, which features various memorials and museum exhibits, as well as a forest dense enough to make some forget they are at one of the country's most sacred grounds. Some of the photos nudge gently at ideas of loss, memory and place, while others hit you over the head with the gravity of the area.
Yeshayahu is no stranger to photography in Israel. He is the author of the "bible" on the subject of early picture taking in Israel, the book, "The Bible and the Image: The History of Photography in the Holy Land 1839-1899," and is also a filmmaker himself.
The event will go until July 1st, 2009 at the Cinematheque and will be open from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. Call the Cinematheque for hours on Friday and Saturday.
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