AMERICAN OPTICAL

American Optical is an artist book by Tel Aviv based photographer and video maker Leigh Orpaz. The project is composed of photographs made by Orpaz’s father (who died when she was young) and grandfather (who died few years ago), as well as old slides she purchased on Ebay and her own work. Both Orpaz’s father – who was a professional photographer - and grandfather who was an amateur photographer left behind boxes upon boxes of countless slides and negatives.

SCAN_2 copy.jpg
img004 copy.jpg
SCAN_4 copy.jpg
SCAN_05 copy.jpg
L1000203 copy.jpg
waterfall.jpg

Editor Gilad Reich


Text editing and English translation Maya Shimony

Design and production Harel & Maayan Studio

Scanning Ofek Aerial Photography LTD, Daniel Segal

Digital image processing Avner Nachmani


Pre-press & printing A.R. Printing

The book was published with the support of The Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts