Drora Spitz
Drora Spitz is a photographer who for the past forty years has been committed to looking at the nature of Creation.
To regard her images is to enter a world of almost dreamlike imagery. Timelessness, luminosity, order, a complex layering of colours, and textures all combine to create images with depth and restrained passion. Her vision is fulfilled by her mastery of technical possibilities. Her prints have the ability to lead the viewer to interior worlds intimated by objects...
more »Drora Spitz is a photographer who for the past forty years has been committed to looking at the nature of Creation.
To regard her images is to enter a world of almost dreamlike imagery. Timelessness, luminosity, order, a complex layering of colours, and textures all combine to create images with depth and restrained passion. Her vision is fulfilled by her mastery of technical possibilities. Her prints have the ability to lead the viewer to interior worlds intimated by objects or created by creases and tears in the paper. The aesthetic experience of her prints is lasting and enriching.
Drora Spitz is an original and creative photographer in the development of Israeli photography. From the outset of her career, working in the architectural school of the Technion, she has nurtured her own creative work. As early as 1970 she had a solo exhibition at the Israel Museum - this during a period when no photographic galleries existed, and not even photographic departments in the major museums existed. She worked with the Israeli sculptor Itzhak Danziger over a period of several years. Her work has been seen in many solo and group exhibitions, both in Israel and abroad.
Her most recent work is a set of images devoted to a family heirloom, an old Bible. The complete essay of images relates to the letters, the words, and the binding, each image fulfilling its mission in an ethereal manner, enforcing the power of the set.
Publications
1988 - Bodies in Motion. The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa
1995 - Drora Spitz / The Dance. The Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai Industrial Park
2007 - Eye of the Storm. The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
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