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Untitled, 1996 (from The Soldiers Series)
Adi Nes
1996
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Israeli photographer Adi Nes is the son of Iranian and Kurdish immigrants who came to Israel in the 1950s. Among his best-known works is Soldiers, a series of staged photographs of Israeli soldiers, which aroused controversy for its homoerotic imagery. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at museums in Israel, Europe, and the United States. Nes is the recipient of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation Award (2005).
With his asses, male and female,
His woolly sheep and billy goats,
His oxen and his camels
Bearing wineskins on their backs,
With his wives and his handmaids,
His servants and his…
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