Negative and Narrative

Greenpoint Logistics Center

(year)
2024
(role)
Curator
(location)
Liebling Haus
(participating artists)

Yitzhak Kalter, Judith Turner, Irmel Kamp, Yigal Gawze, Günther Förg

(about)
How photography from the 1930s to today shaped the image of Tel Aviv's White City and preserved its International Style architecture, through the work of iconic photographers including Yitzhak Kalter, Judith Turner, Irmel Kamp, Yigal Gawze, and Günther Förg.

Negative and Narrative explores how photography from the 1930s to today has shaped the image of Tel Aviv's White City and preserved its International Style architecture. The exhibition gathers the work of iconic photographers - Yitzhak Kalter, Judith Turner, Irmel Kamp, Yigal Gawze, and Günther Förg - whose images, taken across nearly a century, became the visual language through which the city's modernist heritage is known.

The show traces the long-running dialogue between architecture and the camera: how buildings shape photographs and how photographs, in turn, shape the buildings' afterlives in public memory. From early documentary work in the British Mandate period through contemporary architectural photography, the exhibition reveals the White City as a place that has always been seen through frames - and asks how those frames have made the city visible to itself and to the world.

(exhibition images)