Vardi Kahana
Vardi Kahana | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | The Faculty of Arts: HaMidrasha. Beit Berl |
| Known for | photography |
| Movement | Israeli art, Photojournalism |
| Website | vardikahana |
Vardi Kahana is an Israeli photographer.
Biography
Vardi Kahana was born in Tel Aviv in 1959. She grew up in religious family and attended Zeitlin school. She studied art in The Faculty of Arts: HaMidrasha of Academic College in Beit Berl, but did not graduate. Vardi Kahana began her career in photography at the beginning of the 1980s in reportage in magazine "Monitin", and within a short period of time she settled into magazine photography. In the framework of her job, she has photographed a variety of Israeli figures over the years, gradually turning her work into an integral part of the catalogue of images in which Israeli society lives.
In 1983 she joined Hadashot newspaper and worked in it till 1993, when the newspaper was closed. In 1995 she began working for "7 days" newspaper, which is part of Yedioth Ahronoth holding.[1]
Exhibitions
In recent years she has exhibited her works at many solo shows around the world, including The Public Library in Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Pecci Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Jewish Museum Munich, Haifa Museum of Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Also recently, major retrospectives of her work have been shown in The Art Gallery at Yad Labanim Ramat HaSharon and "The Artists House" in Rehovot.
Solo Exhibitions
- 1992 'Photography : Vardi Kahana', Camera Obscura Gallery, TelAviv, Israel
- 2001 'Beauty Has Cut Itself Of', Ramat Gan Museum, Israel
- 2007 'Israeli portrait', Artist's House, Tel Aviv Israel
- 2007 'One Family', Andrea Meislin Gallery NY NY[2]
- 2007 'One Family', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2008 'One Family', Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy
- 2008 'A Photographer of people', Academy of Design and Photography, Haifa, Israel
- 2008 'One Family', Academie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
- 2008 'One Family', Photo Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
- 2008 'One Family', The Jewish Museum, Brussels, Belgium
- 2009 'One Family', Arts Depot, London, England
- 2010 'One Family', The Public Library, Amsterdam, Holland
- 2010 'One Family', Sinti and Roma Museum, Heidelberg, Germany
- 2010 'One Family', The Bundestag, Berlin, Germany[3]
- 2012 'Near and Far', The Artists House, Rehovot, Israel
- 2013 'Fields of Vision', The Art Gallery at Yad Labanim, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
- 2015 'One Family', The Center for Jewish Life, Princeton University[4]
Works
Her most famous photograph, from 10 February 1983, depicts a demonstration of Peace Now movement in Jerusalem, on which Emil Grunzweig appears few minutes before his assassination.[5] Kahane's works are in the collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and other important collections
Recently, Vardi Kahana became the curator of “Local Testimony” - Middle East regional exhibition of photojournalism, runs concurrently with the annual “World Press Photo” exhibition.
Books
Awards
- 2011. Sokolov Award for outstanding achievements in journalism. Vardi Kahana is the first photographer receiving this award
External links
- Official site
- Yedioth Aharonot's Yigal Sarna, Vardi Kahana win Sokolov Prize
- Vardi Kahana in Israel Museum
- Vardi Kahana in Bundestag
- [1] by Hanoch Marmari
- [2] by Emily Long and Melissa Ross
References
- ^ http://www.israelispeakers.co.il/110277/Vardi-Kahana
- ^ http://www.andreameislin.com/artists/vardi-kahana
- ^ http://www.bundestag.de/kulturundgeschichte/ausstellungen/parl_hist/die_familie/die_familie/201336
- ^ http://www.princeton.edu/hillel/news/archive/?id=14744
- ^ http://peacenow.org.il/eng/content/emil-grunzweig