Ben Baruch Blich
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Ben Baruch Blich, b. New York, USA. (ph.d. thesis: Pictorial representation and its cognitive status), at present a senior lecturer in Bezalel – Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. His interests and publications are in the fields of Visual Culture in the history of Western civilization: visual representation, culture and information, art, photography, media studies, animation, comics, and the cinema. In 1989 a visiting scholar to the Warburg Institute in London University working with Prof. Roger Scruton and Sir E. Gombrich. In 2002 a guest Professor to the Hisk (Hoger Institute voor Schone Kunsten) in Antwerp. His papers were presented in various journals and conferences. Last publications "The body as Mirror", in: Territorial bodies, Waanders Uitgevers, Den Haag, and "Body representation in Photography" in The weight of Photography, Free University in Brussels. At present he writes 3 books on photography: 'Photography in conflict: representing political upheavals'; 'Bodies represented by the Camera'; 'Amateur photographers during World war 2".
Blich is an editor of the e-journal 'History and Theory: Protocols', issued by the History and Theory Dept. in Bezalel.
