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AS IN LIFE, PHOTOGRAPHY MAY, ON OCCASION, GET A BOOST FROM LUCK. BUT TO RELY ON THOSE RARE MOMENTS BEING HANDED TO YOU IS TO COUNT ON EMPTY HANDS AND DISAPPOINTMENT. AT THE AGE OF SIX, THE PARIS-BORN SON OF WORLD RENOWNED ARTIST YAACOV AGAM ADDED A CAMERA TO HIS TRAVEL GEAR AS HE BEGAN SHOOTING THAT WHICH INSPIRED HIM MOST: HIS FATHER'S ART. FROM THAT MOMENT, AGAM GAVE HIMSELF A PERSONAL CHALLENGE: TO ALWAYS BE THERE. BY SPENDING HIS CHILDHOOD TRAVELING BETWEEN PARIS AND REHOVOT, ISRAEL, AGAM WAS DRIVEN TO PUSH HIS JOURNEY EVEN FURTHER AS HE ILLUSTRATED LIFE - AND THE LIVES HE ENCOUNTERED - THROUGH HIS PHOTOGRAPHS. AGAM'S STRONG TIES TO ISRAEL - BOTH PERSONALLY AS WELL AS THROUGH HIS ANCESTRY - YIELDED HIS FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBITION ON MAY 17, 1994 AT THE MAGIDSON FINE ART GALLERY IN MANHATTAN. THE EXHIBIT, SHOWCASING PHOTOS TAKEN AT THE WESTERN WALL AND THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX CONCLAVE OF THE MEA SHEARIM, WERE EACH AN ISOLATED MOMENT, LETTING THE PHOTOGRAPH WORK AS BOTH THE NARRATIVE AS WELL AS THE SUBJECT.TODAY, AGAM STAYS TRUE TO HIS PURSUIT - THE ART OF BEING THERE - SO THAT OTHERS MAY SEE WHAT HE SEES, MEET WHO HE MEETS, AND ENRICH THEIR LIVES JUST AS HE STRIVES TO DO EACH AND EVERY DAY. |
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