Accompanying the exhibition Tomer Ganihar | Philip Johnson: Transparent Secrets, this book presents Ganihar\u2019s revelatory project in which the photographer investigated two buildings designed by celebrated American architect Philip Johnson: his iconic Glass House (1949) in New Canaan, Connecticut, and the nuclear reactor complex of Israel\u2019s Soreq Nuclear Research Center (1958). At the heart of this project lies the tension between concealment and exposure, transparency and opacity, as well as between violence and creativity \u2013 for which the two buildings, as well as Johnson\u2019s problematic biography, serve as case studies.
\nAlongside Ganihar\u2019s large-scale color photographs, the book features curatorial essays by eminent art historian Robert Storr and Gilad Reich, curator of the Israel Museum Department of Photography, with Professor Storr sharing his decades-long experience of the international art scene, episodes from his personal acquaintance with Philip Johnson, and lively insights into the project, and Dr. Reich unfolding the story of Johnson, the reactor, and Tomer Ganihar\u2019s work. In addition, a text by architect and historian Zvi Efrat presents for the first time an architectural discussion of the Soreq nuclear reactor.
\nDate of publication: 2024
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