White City
22.09.2012 - 04.11.2012
White City refers to the presence in Tel Aviv of over 4,000 buildings constructed in the Bauhaus and International styles in the 1930s. This city has the largest number of buildings built according to the principles of the Modern Movement in the world.
The Great Depression and the rise of Hitler caused a mass migration to the British Territory in Palestine. A new kind of urban planning became necessary: the work of a group of German and Palestinian architects who had studied and worked in Europe was fundamental.
In 2003 the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), proclaimed Tel Aviv’s White City a World Heritage site, and designated it “a surprising example of urban planning and architecture for a new city dating from the early 20th century”.
The exhibition includes vintage images (twenty black and white photographs from architectural archives), documenting the construction of White City, in addition to images by German photographer Christof Kulte, who provides a contemporary approach to the subject with three series of five colour photographs each.
Walter Zadek
Untitled (White City under construction), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
He was the younger brother of architect and photographer Ya’acov Benor-Kalter. He arrived in Palestine in 1925 and he studied Architecture deciding finally to become a self-trained architectural photographer. In the following decades Kalter worked for some leading architects – Neufeld, Barkai, Rechter and others. In the period of the 1930s and 1940s his photographs of Bauhaus-style buildings are extensive and well known.
After studying Theology at the University of Münster (1986-88) and Philosophy at the University of Cologne (1990-1995), he studied Photography with Bernd Becher and Thomas Ruff at the Academie of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf (1995-2002). He graduated as a Master-Student and has since exhibited with the Gallery Löhrl (Mönchengladbach, Germany), Galeria Maior (Pollenca, Spain), Stiftung St. Matthäus (Berlin) and Cons Arc Gallery (Chiasso, Switzerland).
Walter Zadek, an Israeli photographer, was born in Berlin, where he worked as a socialist journalist and edited the "Berliner Tageblatt". In 1933, after the Nazis came to power, he was imprisoned and tortured. After his release, he fled to Tel Aviv and worked as a freelance press photographer (1934-1948), although he never studied photography.
In 1939 he founded the "Palestine Professional Photographers' Association", which was active from 1939-1941 and aimed to promote the professional status of the photographer in Israel and was involved in an attempt to regulate copyright issues.
After the outbreak of World War II there was a decline in demands for photographs from the Land of Israel, and Zadek open an old-books store in the Magen David Square, called "Biblion", where he worked until 1973, focusing mainly on books about the history of Israel and importing foreign books. In 2010, the Israel Museum held an exhibition of historical photographs by him and Beno Rothenberg.
Pages: 48 Softcover
Illustrations: 35 four-color print
Language: Italian/English
Texts: Christof Klute interviewed by Dr. Hans-Jürger Lechtreck
Edition: Fondazione Rolla, 2012
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Walter Zadek
Untitled (White City under construction), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
12.9 × 17.9 cm
Anonymous
Untitled (White City under construction), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
11.5 × 16.8 cm
Anonymous
Untitled (White City under construction), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
11.5 × 16.8 cm
Anonymous
Untitled (View of modern apartment building, Tel Aviv), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
11.3 × 13.7 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (View of Modern apartment buildings,
Tel Aviv, Architect Mordechai Rosengarten), 1935
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
21.8 × 17.4 cm
Itzhak KalterUntitled
(View of Modern apartment buildings,
Tel Aviv, Architect Mordechai Rosengarten), 1935
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
17.1 × 18.9
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (View of Appenzeller building, 96 Allenby Street,
Tel Aviv), 1934
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
16.9 × 20 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (View of Appenzeller building, 96 Allenby Street,
Tel Aviv), 1934
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
15.8 × 17 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (View of Appenzeller building, 96 Allenby Street,
Tel Aviv), 1934
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
21.2 × 17.3 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (View of a Hotel building in Haifa), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
11.3 × 24.6 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (View of a Hotel building in Haifa), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
10.2 × 24 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (View of Modern apartment buildings,
Tel Aviv, Architect Mordechai Rosengarten), 1935
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
17.7 × 19.4 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (View of modern commercial building, Tel Aviv), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
23 × 15 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (View of modern commercial building, Tel Aviv), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
18 × 20.4 cm
Anonymous
Untitled (single family house), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
11.2 × 15.6 cm
Anonymous
Untitled (single family house), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
10.8 × 14.5 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (Exterior view of residential building, Tel Aviv,
Architects Abraham and I. Mandelbaum Berger), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
23.5 × 16 cm
Anonymous
Untitled (View of modern apartment building, Tel Aviv), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
12.2 × 14.3 cm
Anonymous
Untitled (View of modern apartment building, Tel Aviv), 1930s
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
13.4 × 11.6 cm
Itzhak Kalter
Untitled (Yitzhaki House, 89-91 Rothschild Blvd,
Tel Aviv, Architect Pinas Hitt), 1933
gelatin silver print
13 × 23.8 cm
Christof Klute
Untitled (White City Houses A), Tel Aviv, 2012
(series - 1 of 5)
C-print
60 × 43 cm
Christof Klute
Untitled (White City Houses A), Tel Aviv, 2012
(series - 2 of 5)
C-print
60 × 43 cm
Christof Klute
Untitled (White City Houses A), Tel Aviv, 2012
(series - 3 of 5)
C-print
60 × 43 cm
Christof Klute
Untitled (White City Houses A), Tel Aviv, 2012
(series - 4 of 5)
C-print
60 × 43 cm
Christof Klute
Untitled (White City Houses A), Tel Aviv, 2012
(series - 5 of 5)
C-print
60 × 43 cm