” As a self-proclaimed “Americanized Israeli”, photographer Yoav Friedlander explores the two cultures that he has embraced. Friedlander explores the differences and similarities that he finds through each country’s culture, landscape, and civil unrest. In his series “A Form of View”, Friedlander visually studies the influence that American culture has had on his Israeli origins. He also investigates the physical photograph and how over time it can be relied on to stand in for existing memories or even create an idea of a place that the viewer has never been to. Friedlander explains on his website, “I base my thesis on the recognition that our world is informed by images. Photographs represent and replace experiences, memories, landscapes and objects. Our past still exists in the form of photographs, and we will move on to a future which be is based on those photographs and the context through which we interpret them. Since the invention of the photograph, reality has become augmented by its own image. I am focusing my work at that point of friction”. ”
Text by Canbra Hodsdon (Juxtapoz Magazine)
http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/yoav-friedlander-s-a-form-of-view
More info: www.yoavfriedlander.com
Watch Tower, 2012
Border, 2012 (Israel & Syria)
Chicago, Urban Warfare Training Facility (miniature), 2014
Based on the Israeli training facility in Tze’elim base that simulates Palestinian houses for urban warfare. concrete scale model.
The Flooded Room, 2013 (miniature)
Camera Obscura, 2014
Camera Lucida, 2014
Manhattan, Forest Park, New York, 2013
Old LIRR tracks, Forest Park, New York, 2013
Rail Tracks, Queens, New York, 2013
The Fallen Soldier, 2013
9/11
A Dead Sea View, 2013 (miniature)
A House Within The Forest Trees, Ausable Chasm, New York, 2013
Taconic State PKWY, New York, 2013
The Dead Sea, Israel, 2013
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