Editorial
‘Summer Harvest
For the issue's
cover we have chosen a photograph by Yoel Fink – a third year student at the
Department of Photography. This photograph opens the series “Last Stop” that is
dedicated to the sights he captured in the vicinity of the last stops of NYC’s
underground trains, and which is published in this issue as a virtual
exhibition. The depiction of a structural element that appears as if torn out
of some foreign context and which is thus rendered into a literal ‘unturned
stone’, encapsulates a fascinating conjunction of visual oppositions. In
discussing this picture Fink explained that it was taken near a “simple
communal college he never heard of before” which he understood to be the
opposite of “the prestigious
The first
section is dedicated to students’ academic work, and it contains eight
articles. These texts are based on third year seminary papers that were chosen
for their exceptional academic merit and were consequently revised into
academic papers. Even a cursory reading suffices to reveal the breadth and
variety of subject matters with which these papers deal: painting and
sculpture, photography and cinema, dance and music, industrial design and
architecture, and the diverse interests and intellectual affinities of the
authors: philosophy, literature, technology, economics, history, conservation,
cultural and counter-culture.
The second section is dedicated to the
art works of students from the departments of Photography, Architecture and
Industrial Design. Some of these works have been created as part of their
studies at Bezalel, and some in other institutions in
