Art Jameel

Passing Time

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It took eight months of research for the curators, Manal Khader and Gregory Buchakjian, to excavate the 160 photographs in this book—most of which have never been published before—from the 50,000 meticulously-numbered and labelled images of the artist’s archive. The publication, which is suffused with emotion, was realised in close collaboration with the artist.

Hardcover

256 pages

Dimensions: height 28.5 x width 24.5 cm

ISBN: 9786148035043

Publisher: Kaph Books

Published October 23, 2017

Weight: 1.6

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After qualifying as an architect in London, Elkoury turned to photography, producing a report on daily life in Lebanon and his images appearing in several publications. In 1997, Elkoury co-founded the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation, an organisation that seeks to archive and preserve photography from the region. The following year he moved to Turkey and produced an extensive photographic travelogue, the last of his exclusively photographic series.

Gregory Buchakjian (b. 1971) is an art historian and visual interdisciplinary artist, Université Paris IV Sorbonne PhD, director of the School of Visual Arts at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts – Alba.

Founded in 2015 with the mission of promoting the talent of artists from the region, Kaph Books is a publishing house based in Beirut, Lebanon, and specialising in quality art books on Middle-Eastern artists or art practices. Each book is unique, created in collaboration with the artists and contributors with high technical and design quality.

Manal Khader is a writer, editor and actress based in Beirut. She is one of the founders of Kalamon, a Beirut-based cultural quarterly review, and Co-Editor of the publication from 2010 to 2015.

After qualifying as an architect in London, Elkoury turned to photography, producing a report on daily life in Lebanon and his images appearing in several publications. In 1997, Elkoury co-founded the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation, an organisation that seeks to archive and preserve photography from the region. The following year he moved to Turkey and produced an extensive photographic travelogue, the last of his exclusively photographic series.

Gregory Buchakjian (b. 1971) is an art historian and visual interdisciplinary artist, Université Paris IV Sorbonne PhD, director of the School of Visual Arts at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts – Alba.

Founded in 2015 with the mission of promoting the talent of artists from the region, Kaph Books is a publishing house based in Beirut, Lebanon, and specialising in quality art books on Middle-Eastern artists or art practices. Each book is unique, created in collaboration with the artists and contributors with high technical and design quality.

Manal Khader is a writer, editor and actress based in Beirut. She is one of the founders of Kalamon, a Beirut-based cultural quarterly review, and Co-Editor of the publication from 2010 to 2015.

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