THE JEWISH STANDARD
By Joanna Palmer
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| Abraham pushes Isaac; it’s not clear if it’s before or after the abortive sacrifice, Adi Nes says. It’s based on both Duane Hanson’s 1969 sculpture “Supermarket Shopper” and Caravaggio’s “The Sacrifice of Abraham.” |
We don’t usually think of photographs as being like onions.
Often, we’re wrong. The more you stare at a photo, the more you notice details, the more you wonder at choices, the more you read messages, the more you marvel at the beauty or the insight or the shock to your assumptions that’s in it, quite purposefully.
Adi Nes, an Israeli photographer who will give the Buchman visual arts lecture at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck on Wednesday, shoots what is called staged photography to illustrate a range of themes. “My art deals with issues of identity, of masculinity, and of being Israeli,” he said. I am gay, so I deal with homoeroticism and gay identity. I am an artist and a Jew, so I deal with art and Judaism." [
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| Red-haired Esau buys his brother Jacob’s lentil stew as their father, Isaac, looks on; the photograph refers to Caravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus.” |
