JCC on the Palisades

Waltuch Gallery

DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2000

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM UNDERGROUND TO ABOVE ISRAEL / SPAIN

AL STEWART

PART 1: ISRAEL

YAD VASHEM CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL--------$325

ARAB QUARTER/ PENNYWHISTLE $300

YAD VASHEM VALLEY OF COMMUNITIES $325

WOMAN IN PRAYER/ JERUSALEM----$325

WILSON'S ARCH 2 $350

NEGEV DESERT $325

GOOD FENCE $325

TRAIN $250

TIBERIAS/ FISHERMAN $325

MARKET/ OLD CITY $325

MAIMONIDES TOMB $300

JEWISH QUARTER/ OLD CITY $350

NEGEV DESERT/ POND $325

RABBI ALENANDER SCHINDLER $300

WESTERN WALL $325

MAN IN PRAYER/ JERUSALEM

OSKAR SCHINDLER/ RESTING PLACE $300

OLD CITY/ ARAB WOMEN $300

BET SHE' AN/ AMPHITHEATER $300

ZEFAT/ SCHOOL $325

DAVID-PAULA BEN GURION/ RESTING PLACE $300

YAD MORDECAI CHILD'S DRAWING $300

JERUSALEM/ TAILOR $300

PART 2: SPAIN

BOY WITH SHEEP $300

CAFE' COURT/ CORDOBA $275

ALHAMBRA/ REFLECTION $275

MADRID/ PALACE GUARD $275

WOMAN IN DOORWAY $275

MOJACAR/ STAIRWAY $300

AQUA AMARGA/ BEACH $275

PRADO $275

EL ESCORIAL/ PALACE $300

TOLEDO/ WATER SCENE $300

MADRID/ STATUE AT PALACE $275

PATTERN MAKER $275

STREET CAFE $275

VIEW THRU PALCE WINDOW $325

SYNAGOGUE $325

CORDOBA/ EL TORINO $325

GRANADA/ BALCONIES $325

CORDOBA/ PRIVATE STREET $300

MADRID/ DOME $300

TOWER AND TREES $275

TAVERN $275

AL STEWART

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

PHOTOGRAPHY BECAME OF INTEREST TO ME IN THE 1950'S WHEN AS A MUSICIAN I FOUND MYSELF IN PLACES OF GREAT PHOTOGRAPHIC OPPORTUNITY. THIS INTEREST IN BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY, AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN PRINTING IN MY OWN DARKROOM , HAS REMAINED WITH ME. MOST OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS IN THIS EXHIBIT WERE TAKEN ON COLOR FILM AND PRINTED IN BLACK AND WHITE.

FROM A DISTANT PLACE TALKED ABOUT, ISRAEL BECAME A REALITY THAT I COULD FEEL AND TOUCH AS SOON AS THE EL AL AIRLINER LANDED IN TEL AVIV. I BEGAN TO SEE ISRAEL FROM AN UNDERGROUND TUNNEL TO THE WALL IN JERUSALEM WHERE MEN AND WOMEN STOOD IN PRAYER. FROM THE TOP OF A TEL TO AN UNCOVERED AMPHITHEATER SHORN OF THE EARTH OF CENTURIES. I SAW IT FROM THE NEGEV DESERT TO THE SEA OF GALILEE. FROM A SOLDIER WITH A GUN LIVE WITH THE FIRE OF SELF DEFENSE SLUNG ACROSS HIS BACK TO A PLACE OF ASSASSINATION WHERE A GREAT LEADER FELL BY THE FIRE OF HATE. I SAW IT. THIS EXHIBIT SHOWS SOME OF THAT ISRAEL.

SPAIN'S HISTORY IS ABOVE GROUND. THE SPIRES OF IT'S CHURCHES SURVIVING CENTURIES OF LIFE AND WEATHER AND STRIFE TOUCH THE CLOUDLESS BLUE SKY. MUSEUMS ABOUT WITH ART OF THE GREAT MASTERS. THE WATERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WETTING SANDY BEACHES IN SOME PLACES AND MOUNTAINS REACHING DOWN TO THE SEA IN OTHERS. AN ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE. A SIGN ON A WALL INDICATES WHERE A SYNAGOGUE USED TO BE. PLAZAS, OUTDOOR CAFES, WINDING STREETS, A LITTLE RESTAURANT TUCKED WHERE ONE WOULDN'T EXPECT ONE TO BE. HERE AND THERE THE SMELL OF GARLIC. HERE IS ALSO A BIT OF SPAIN.

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