The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is presenting “Black Box,” the first comprehensive solo museum exhibition of Alex Levac, one of Israel’s most prominent and influential photographers. The retrospective fills the museum’s Eyal Ofer Pavilion with more than 200 photographs.
Levac, born in 1944, has spent more than four decades photographing both defining moments in the country’s history and ordinary street life. The show sets out to tell his own story alongside the story of how the place he documented took shape.
It follows his path from his student years in London, through trips to Brazil and the Amazon, to his return to Israel in 1981, tracing how he developed the distinctive visual language that pushed the limits of photojournalism and humanist photography.
His images shift between horror and humor, criticism and empathy, walking the fine line between documentation and art. Taken together, they portray a many-layered Israeli society and read today almost as a prophecy of the issues now at the center of the debate about Israel, both at home and abroad.
More information is available on the museum’s website.
