[After] Zoltan Kluger

“[After] Zoltan Kluger” is an artist’s book by Tamar Katz, published alongside a solo exhibition at Dana Gallery in Yad Mordechai. The book unfolds along an axis between Katz’s video work and the photographs of Zoltan Kluger - one of the central photographers in Mandatory Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s - which serve as both inspiration and point of departure.
Katz traces Kluger’s life and practice, which in many ways stood in tension with the significant role his images played in shaping the myths of Zionism. At the same time, she turns to a lesser-known body of his work: aerial photographs, architectural documentation, and images of artists at work - materials that did not receive wide circulation.
By focusing on the forgotten margins of his oeuvre and biography, the project raises questions about his absent presence within the narrative of the land, and about how returning to his archive resonates with the complexity of representing that story.

Texts in Hebrew and English
Texts: Ravit Harari, Edith Kofsky
Design: Shay Fighel
84 pages
14x18 cm
Color and black and white digital printing
Printed on Arena Natural 90 and 170 gsm
Book supported by the gallery and SMC - Shenkar Members Club