Dining Room in Bethlehem
Photograph
2004 (photographed)
2004 (photographed)
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Lili Almog spent two years visiting Carmelite monasteries in Israel, Palestine and the United States to create the series ‘Perfect Intimacy’, reflecting her interest in photographing women in private settings. She first visited the monastery on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, where the Carmelite order was founded in 1200. Originally allowed only to photograph the nuns in the garden, she gradually gained their trust, becoming, as they joked, the first Jewish woman to sleep there.
From Mount Carmel Almog journeyed to the Carmelite monastery in Bethlehem, Palestine, where she became concerned with investigating the nuns’ relationship to their confined surroundings. This photograph of the dining room there has a stillness that conveys something of the atmosphere of the monasteries – ‘bubbles in the middle of estranged, non-religious neighbourhoods’ as Almog says.
The series is an excellent example of an extended documentary project. The photographer’s deep engagement with her subjects – in part an investigation by a Jewish woman into Christian women’s beliefs – creates images of startling intimacy.
From Mount Carmel Almog journeyed to the Carmelite monastery in Bethlehem, Palestine, where she became concerned with investigating the nuns’ relationship to their confined surroundings. This photograph of the dining room there has a stillness that conveys something of the atmosphere of the monasteries – ‘bubbles in the middle of estranged, non-religious neighbourhoods’ as Almog says.
The series is an excellent example of an extended documentary project. The photographer’s deep engagement with her subjects – in part an investigation by a Jewish woman into Christian women’s beliefs – creates images of startling intimacy.
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Materials and techniques | Archival C-print |
Brief description | 'Dining Room in Bethlehem', 2004, photograph from the series 'Perfect Intimacy' by Lili Almog (born Tel Aviv 1961) |
Physical description | Photograph of a dinning room in a Carmelite monastery in Bethlehem |
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Copy number | 1/15 |
Credit line | Given by the artist |
Summary | Lili Almog spent two years visiting Carmelite monasteries in Israel, Palestine and the United States to create the series ‘Perfect Intimacy’, reflecting her interest in photographing women in private settings. She first visited the monastery on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, where the Carmelite order was founded in 1200. Originally allowed only to photograph the nuns in the garden, she gradually gained their trust, becoming, as they joked, the first Jewish woman to sleep there. From Mount Carmel Almog journeyed to the Carmelite monastery in Bethlehem, Palestine, where she became concerned with investigating the nuns’ relationship to their confined surroundings. This photograph of the dining room there has a stillness that conveys something of the atmosphere of the monasteries – ‘bubbles in the middle of estranged, non-religious neighbourhoods’ as Almog says. The series is an excellent example of an extended documentary project. The photographer’s deep engagement with her subjects – in part an investigation by a Jewish woman into Christian women’s beliefs – creates images of startling intimacy. |
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Accession number | E.330-2005 |
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Record created | May 24, 2005 |
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