Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus _alt_Tommy Smits – Homo Dentis like a spectre in the

like a spectre in the smog

and in a similar way

a taxi driver who is paid a retainer to stay because there are so few customers

Text by Claire Clouzot

The result is a series of intimate black-and-white portraits and monumental interior photographs in colour

Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus _alt_Tommy Smits – Homo Dentis like a spectre in theCorbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 19591960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian but not an historian of the Jews is co opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with non