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During the 1973 Yom Kippur war, Tumarkin was a reserve soldier at the front – as a War photographer. His resulting photographs were in his opinion too ‘real’ and naturalistic to be published.
Tumarkin had always used war elements in the production of his sculpture. So for him the fields of war were an endless studio, expressing his enthusiasm and loathing. The emblem of the Scorpion expresses this duality and it appears in many of his works.
On his return to his studio, together with Jacob Harel, he transformed all the photos into separations for silkscreen prints. The work on these …