Chris Marker, French (1921-2012), "Be'er Sheva", 1960. Digital print from original 6x6 negative. La cinémathèque française, Paris
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Chris Marker: The Lost Photographs of Israel
14/04/2025 - 14/10/2025
Israel Museum
Derech Ruppin 11
Jerusalem
www.imj.org.il/
This exhibition presents still images of Israel from 1960 captured by the Frenchman Chris Marker, one of the postwar New Wave’s most original and influential directors. Photographed from Eilat in the south up to Kibbutz Manara in northernmost Israel, they were taken in preparation for a new type of documentary film about the young country. The film, Description of a Struggle, achieved renown – but the photographs vanished. A few years ago, more than 1,000 negatives from this project were discovered in the archive of the French Cinematheque; some 120 of them have been printed for the exhibition and are displayed here for the first time. Images of everyday scenes and ordinary people, they convey the same insightful humanism that Marker brought to his film.
14/04/2025 - 14/10/2025
Israel Museum
Derech Ruppin 11
Jerusalem
www.imj.org.il/
This exhibition presents still images of Israel from 1960 captured by the Frenchman Chris Marker, one of the postwar New Wave’s most original and influential directors. Photographed from Eilat in the south up to Kibbutz Manara in northernmost Israel, they were taken in preparation for a new type of documentary film about the young country. The film, Description of a Struggle, achieved renown – but the photographs vanished. A few years ago, more than 1,000 negatives from this project were discovered in the archive of the French Cinematheque; some 120 of them have been printed for the exhibition and are displayed here for the first time. Images of everyday scenes and ordinary people, they convey the same insightful humanism that Marker brought to his film.