At the Wall [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Ron Agam (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 9652291501 | ISBN-13: 978-9652291509 | Publication Date: January 1997 | Edition: illustrated edition

At The Wall is a collection of photographs of Jerusalem's holy Western Wall and it's surrounding religious neighborhood by Ron Agam, one of Israel's most celebrated photographer. Through the eyes of his camera, Agam has captured the inhabitants of Jerusalem's ultra orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim and people at the Western Wall, one of Judaism most holy places... Ron Agam's Work has been shown in numerous galleries throughout the United States, His photographs have been published in newspapers and magazines In Israel, Europe, South America, and the United States.

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...Ron Agam's photos are very moving. I feel a deep emotional connection to them overtime I look at them. -- Madonna

Individually, his photographs are frozen in time moments but collectively they tell a compelling story about the struggles an d triumph of the Jewish people. -- From the Introduction, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New York City

With a wondering eye, in the complex tapestry of Jerusalemite people, Ron Agam has focused on a world of yesteryear frozen in time and space, which was once anchored at the eastern wall of a far away synagogue in a shtetl, but now nests in the vicinity of the Western Wall of the destroyed Temple, and the man with a camera has replaced the Chassidic storyteller and the fiddler on the roof. -- Moshe Lazar, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Gefen Publishing House, Ltd; illustrated edition edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9652291501
• ISBN-13: 978-9652291509
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 10.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,502,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good pictures, but lacks a coherent point of view., April 8, 1999

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This review is from: At the Wall (Hardcover)

Ron Agam, Yaakov's son, is an accomplished photographer, as is evident in this book. The photographs included depict the activities of the haredim in Jerusalem, at the Kotel and elsewhere. The pictures are good, all in black and white, and manage to catch the various emotions of the ultra-Orthodox as they go about their daily lives, mostly in prayer.

The problem with the book is that it doesn't live up to its title. Only half the pictures are taken at the Kotel. The others are in the Meah Shearim, and other haredi institutions. Once he's away from the Wall, there is no coherent point of view, either of the subject matter, or what the pictures are meant to convey.

As a coherent photo essay, the book is lacking in (forgive me) focus. As a collection of good pictures, it works.