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Documentary photography is often a search for the visually stimulating. We tend to believe that it leads to further truths.

IN OUR IMAGE, 1986

This reality, unique from its very inception __ a Jewish settlement, an ingathering of exiles from widely differing cultures__ has become gravely complex, even distorted, from that moment in which, as a result of conquest, there was established the reign of one people over another...  

(from the introduction by Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 
Jerusalem, 1986)

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HASIDIM, 1987

A combination of photographs of Israeli Hasidic communities

and their traditional stories together with an introductory essay on the history of Hasidim in Israel by Yoel Rappel.

 

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TEL AVIV MON AMOUR, 1995

Taking my camera, I walk the streets

once again seeking the shelter of Tel Aviv ... (1991 - 1995)

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A glimpse of the precarious nature of life in Tel Aviv.

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TEMPORARY SALVATION, 1999

"Nobody realized that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."  Camus

DEAR ROBERT

A CORRESPONDENCE WITH ROBERT FRANK, 2014

From the introduction:

We last met in Mabou this summer. I expressed my desire to do this book. He said, "It was an honest correspondence...it's a long time, 1987-2013..."


Robert Frank subsequently banned the publication of this book.


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Kibbutz Times, 2021

A limited edition artist book with 87 photographs of daily life in Kibbutz Kfar Menachem in the 1980s and a personal text; poems by Gila Kantor.

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Hebrew and English integrated,

62.5X41 cm double spread,

Hard cover, hand bound,

180 copies.

 

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AMAZING SCENES

FROM PESACH'S STUDIO

2010 (30 MINUTES)

ROBERT FRANK

SANS MUSIQUE

2017 (38 MINUTES)

LEFTOVERS FROM A PICNIC

1999 (38 MINUTES)

YEHI-EL

20O8 (35 MINUTES)

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CONTACT

Joelkantor@yahoo.com

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972-523755656

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