Urban
 

“7 February ’84. Alenby Road and Nahalat Binyamin, gateway to the garment district. Which way is 7th Avenue? One summer when I was sixteen, I pressed the linings of ladies’ hats in a Manhattan factory. Now, in Tel Aviv, she takes her rightful place. A horse appears”
(Journal entry)
 

Growing up in the urban setting of the Bronx, New York, then Athens, Cordoba, and Jerusalem, cityscapes  have been ever present and fascinating to Schwebel. As opposed to nature, which provided Schwebel  an atmosphere of serenity and space for contemplation, the urban arena served as a more dramatic space in which he could arrange mise-en-scenes and encounters between both collective and personal subject matters, for example  placing Samuel in mourning on 23rd Street and 7th Avenue, New York, David hiding amongst kitchenware in a Mahane Yehuda market shop, or reviving  the streets of Tel Aviv with Hollywood movies stars as  Marylin Monroe, Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich.

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Photography by: Michael Amar