Alex Levac

Alex Levac (Hebrew: אלכס ליבק, born 1944, Tel Aviv) is an Israeli photojournalist and street photographer.After graduating in philosophy and psychology from Tel Aviv University and in photography from the London College of Printing.In 1984, a photograph he took during the hijacking of a Tel Aviv bus disproved the official account of events and led to a long running scandal known as the Kav 300 affair.Levac has participated in a number of exhibitions, among them Amazon Indians, held at the University of California, Berkeley; the Ein Harod Israeli Biennale of Photography; and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.Many times the result is simply anecdotal, visual amusements, the justaposition of bits of reality that usually are not connected to one another.
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