Photo Op https://www.photo-op.co.il Ohad Matalon Ongoing Exhibition - Tel Aviv Museum of Art Sat, 09 May 2026 17:11:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.36 Product, Production, and the Plastic Proletariat: What Is the Photographic Opportunity? https://www.photo-op.co.il/product-production-plastic-proletariat-photographic-opportunity/ https://www.photo-op.co.il/product-production-plastic-proletariat-photographic-opportunity/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:02:37 +0000 http://www.photo-op.co.il/?p=4661 "A child being beaten" (Freud’s “Ein Kind wird” Geschlagen”) is the ultimate phantasy of
photography. The light beats the emulsion, leaves ,its marks on it—but these are non-penetrating
non-piercing marks.

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]]> https://www.photo-op.co.il/product-production-plastic-proletariat-photographic-opportunity/feed/ 0 The Blue of the Sky: Scorching, Burning, Baking https://www.photo-op.co.il/blue-sky-scorching-burning-baking/ https://www.photo-op.co.il/blue-sky-scorching-burning-baking/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:01:58 +0000 http://www.photo-op.co.il/?p=4628 “Sky of blue—frame of the universe,” wrote
the Hebrew poet Shaul Tchernichovsky. For Bataille, “the blue of the sky” (le bleu du ciel) was synonymous with the “empty sky,”

by Pioter Shmugliakov

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]]> https://www.photo-op.co.il/blue-sky-scorching-burning-baking/feed/ 0 “Photo Op”: Exhibition as a Medium https://www.photo-op.co.il/photo-op-exhibition-medium/ https://www.photo-op.co.il/photo-op-exhibition-medium/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2015 08:39:53 +0000 http://www.photo-op.co.il/?p=4582 "An exhibition in a museum is typically a conventional frame for exhibiting artworks in a certain space for a certain period of time. Its role is to provide the optimal conditions for exposing the works it presents while remaining—justlike a picture’s actual frame—external to their artistic contents."

by Pioter Shmugliakov

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]]> https://www.photo-op.co.il/photography/feed/ 0 Light — Developer — Semen https://www.photo-op.co.il/light-developer-semen/ https://www.photo-op.co.il/light-developer-semen/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:49:41 +0000 http://www.photo-op.co.il/?p=4487 "An abstract image originating from developer fluid splashed directly onto photographic.
paper turns out to be a complex set of motifs."

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]]> https://www.photo-op.co.il/light-developer-semen/feed/ 0 Photographic paper https://www.photo-op.co.il/photographic-paper/ https://www.photo-op.co.il/photographic-paper/#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2014 10:14:20 +0000 http://www.photo-op.co.il/?p=4465 "A sheet of photographic paper is probably the best candidate for the honorary role of the (empty) canvas of photography. Alight-sensitive surface is the necessary substrate of the photographic image as analog photography understands it. "

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]]> https://www.photo-op.co.il/photographic-paper/feed/ 0 Sealing and wasting https://www.photo-op.co.il/02-12-2014/ https://www.photo-op.co.il/02-12-2014/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:32:08 +0000 http://www.photo-op.co.il/?p=4415 "The exhibition “Photo Op” opened on 13 November, at 8 p.m., with empty walls
During that evening, two photographs were printed and framed in “work spaces” within
the gallery, in the audience’s presence; they were later sealed under black Perspex and
hung alongside each other on one of the.."

by Pioter Shmugliakov

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