Alex Levac Sold at Auction Prices

ALEX LEVAC B. 1944

BUS LINE, JERUSALEM; BUS LINE: 2 WORKS BUS LINE, JERUSALEM; BUS LINE: 2 WORKS measurements each 18 by 27 1/2 in. alternate measurements each 46 by 70 cm. each signed in Hebrew and numbered 2/5 on the reverse digital black and white prints The first, executed in February 2003; The second executed in May 2004 NOTE Born in Tel Aviv in 1944, Alex Levac studied philosophy and psychology at the Tel Aviv University and Photography at the London College of Printing in 1971. He received the Rita Poretzky Award for Photography from the Tel Aviv Museum in 1993; the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Plastic Arts in 2003 and the Israel Prize for Photography in 2005. He worked as a press photographer for the daily newspaper "Hadashot" and in 1993 he joined the staff of the daily newspaper "Ha'aretz". In his photographs, Levac captures singular events from modern daily life in Israel in a unique angle unmasking human beings in their most common state as subjects of great interest.