Sunday, September 5, 2010

A mystery

Who is Shai Gabbai?
i dont know, i have started looking for more photo books on ebay, and have seen a few absucrities here and there, including a few israeli photographers of whom i have never heard but found some info about them or a website. this is a book by Shai Gabbai found on ebay called "Asia", the only other reference to this book or photographer was an israeli used online book store here, this time the book is titled in hebrew.
what can i learn from the one photo that adorns the cover of both the hebrew and english versions?
its a black and white photo, of a kid sleeping inside a carton, in an unundetified location, house or street. the photo clearly has dirty edges of the 80's agenda style of photojournalist purism of full frame printing (I.E. Aliza Auerbach, james nachtway) its only moderately wide angle.
is it worth the15 dollars asked on ebay? or the mere 28 shekels asked for used hebrew one?

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