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Margalit Manor, Israeli photographer, born 1940, active in Israel and United States.

Margalit Manor was born in Tel Aviv. In the 1960s, she studied philosophy and art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Later she studied art at the Avni Institute with Yehezkel Streichman, among others. In her early work, from the end of the 1960s, she combined techniques, such as painting and screen printing. In the 1970s, she began working in the United States and had several shows at the Bertha Urdang gallery in New York. From the 1970s, photography became her main medium.

In her photographs, Manor uses abstraction, lyrical lighting and a minimalistic approach to composition that lend her work an ars poetic dimension. Her best known work is a photographic series at Mishkan LeOmanut in Ein Harod (1989-1990) and her "Envelope" series (1995).

Education

1960-1963 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, philosophy and art
1964-1968 Avni Art Institute, Tel Aviv
1967-1978 Rae Russell, New York, photography
1989 "Camera Obscura", Tel Aviv

Awards And Prizes

1971 First Group Prize For Israeli Artist, The 7th Annuel Exhibition of Contemporary, Art , Monte Carlo
1981 Photography Prize, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, USA