M.H. Publications
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A new book by Michael Haft
Wonders of Nature
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The Way of Photography
Our World:
It has no private name,
it has no family name.
It can only be described as: Globe, World etc.
It consists of beauty and ugliness, of childhood, adolescence, youth,
adulthood, maturity and old age. All are reflected in Nature and in
Humankind.
Millions of people live in over-congested big cities. Do they notice
the beauty of our world, of Nature?
Nature is mute. It cannot present itself nor tell its story how it
emerged and developed, nor describe its beauty. It cannot thank those
who protect it nor complain about those who molest and destroy it.
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Cambodia
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Our
World is full of laughter and tears (maybe tears and laughter).
As well as happiness and suffering (maybe suffering and happiness).
There are big
and congested cities, with many skyscrapers. Beautiful as they are,
their inhabitants rarely notice the skies above, or the birds flying
above and not only in the zoo.
Our World has many faces: There are continents, islands, oceans, lakes,
rivers, streams, waterfalls, mountains and valleys, all different one
from the other in their looks and colours (just like people).
Its asset is that it exists and is thereby easy and pleasant to watch.
It has no language or religion. Mountains do not hate valleys, and
oceans do not hate lakes. No one complains about the clouds obstructing
the sun, about the snow covering the earth, about the heat evaporating
the water and drying the earth. |
In other words:
There is so much to see
in our wonderful world. One of the means, in my
mind, is to present the world and its wealth objectively without
interpretations, in the way of photography.
This book is dedicated to
all those photographers whose pictures of
Nature, cities or portraits of people are without distortions,
additions or artful trimmings, who brought photography to be considered
as an art form.
Their achievements are
shown in exhibitions in centers
of art around the world, in museums and art galleries. Their
photographs decorate public and private buildings and private
collections.
118 pages, 108 full-size color photos, ISBN 0-9673837-1-4, $100 |
Forest of the Rocks, China
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Petra, Jordan
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Michael
Haft was born in Jerusalem, and since his youth he was
interested in Photography. From the early fifties until today he made
films and pictures of landscapes, existing cities and those discovered
in excavations in Europe, Asia, Africa, United States and South America.
In the last few years he
has been concentrating on fragments in Nature wherever he went. He has
learned to see in a fragment, be it in a tree, a leaf, a stone or in
any other form, a whole world. The result is a kind of an abstract that
does not emerge from him but exists in the object itself in front of
him. It ceases to be a part of a thing, but turns to have its own
distinct existence. |
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