Yehuda Halevi Street Sign captures a simple but distinctive detail of Tel Aviv's urban landscape. The street sign marks Yehuda Halevi Street, one of the city's central streets, turning an everyday piece of urban signage into a graphic portrait of Tel Aviv. The photograph celebrates the typography, architecture and street details that give Tel Aviv its unique visual identity.
Yehuda Halevi (c. 1075–1141) was a renowned medieval Jewish poet, philosopher, and physician who lived in Muslim Spain. One of the greatest Hebrew poets of the Middle Ages, he wrote extensively about faith, love, exile, Jerusalem, and his longing for the Land of Israel. His best-known philosophical work, The Kuzari, remains an important text in Jewish thought.
# T I T L E : YEHUDA HALEVI STREET SIGN
#LOCATION: YEHUDA HALEVI STREET TEL AVIV
#TIME: PHOTOGRAPHED IN 2014
#CATALOG NUMBER: 547
#PHOTOGRAPHER: IDO BIRAN
