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The Photography of Chanan Getraide
“The large color prints of Chanan Getraide are among
the most
remarkable
– and beautiful – that I have ever seen.Getraide has
a superb
eye for both events and composition, while his technical
mastery and control of atmosphere and color is astounding;
the
results are always harmonic, what ever the mode…”.
By Meir Ronnen, “The
JerusalemPost”
My way to get to know
Israel
is through my photography. My photography brought me to every part of this beautiful
country and forced me to walk every lane, to climb on each and every mountain, looking
for the unique images I’m seeking for.
I believe that everyone of us find his own way in getting
to know Israel, his own way of developing his feeling to this land. Each one of
us is daily creating his personal relations and connections to
Israel
, whether he had the chance to visit there or only by having some pictures of the
Israeli scenery.
I find
Richard McBee
’s words describing very well my relationship with the Israeli nature in his art
review followed my exhibition at the Hebrew Union College, New York, Oct. 2004:
“Chanan Getraide's
intimate knowledge of the land and considerable technical skill at making images
cannot account for these visual insights. Rather it is an intuitive understanding
that the Israeli landscape is different than other beautiful natural motifs in some
fundamental way. Image after image proclaims that the intrusions of cultivation,
roads, water works, electrical lines and housing upon an awesome natural landscape
actually enhances the
Land of Israel
, fulfilling its promise as an inheritance to the Jewish People…”
“These creative and provocative images
of Chanan Getraide are a singular expression of the Covenant of the Land that is
a central prospect of the Jewish people. God's gift becomes an inheritance. And
through that inheritance, working, inhabiting and marking the Land, we become partners
with God as a Holy People in a
Holy
Land
….”
In my web-site www.beautyIsrael.com
you are welcome to take a tour throughout the different categories of my photography,
to enjoy the variety of the Israeli scene, and to pick the ones you love. You just
provide me with the category, the page and the title.
The size of print you choose, will be signed by me and
delivered to you in a tube package, by door to door shipment. Cost of shipment will
be added to the total.
The Orange Grove on
Kibbutz Shiller
color photograph by Chanan Getraide
Courtesy Hebrew Union Collage
Jewish Institute of
Religion Museum
