Publisher's Synopsis
Starting in the early 1990s, Itai Doron began a visual diary depicting sites in three cities to which he owes his main artistic debt: Tel Aviv, where he was born and spent his early years; London, where he has lived and worked since 1989; and Los Angeles, a city of inspiration and dreams.;Seeking to capture the different local colour, the collection reveals a side of each city that few tourists or residents ever see: the Hollywood graves of Marilyn Monroe, Bela Lugosi, Truman Capote and Natalie Wood; the Israeli Elvis Presley Fan Club as it celebrates "The King's Birthday"; and empty sets at the Shepperton film studios.;The austere but emotive landscapes are almost abstracted through the simplistic nature of the photography. Emotional expectations from highly-charged locations such as James Dean's car crash site or Sharon Tate's grave, fail abruptly when confronting the ordinariness of the images. Public and personal history coexist but fail to connect as we encounter the complex psychological spaces of contemporary make-believe.
