David

David (/ˈdeɪvɪd/; Hebrew: דָּוִד, Modern David, Tiberian Dāwîḏ;ISO 259-3 Dawid; Arabic: داوُد‎ Dāwūd; Syriac: ܕܘܝܕ‎ Dawid; Ancient Greek: Δαυίδ; Latin: Davidus, David; Strong's: Daveed) was, according to the Books of Samuel, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel, and according to the New Testament, an ancestor of Jesus. His life is conventionally dated to c. 1040 – 970 BCE, his reign over Judah c. 1010–970 BCE.

The Books of Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1 Chronicles are the only Old Testament sources of information on David, although the Tel Dan Stele (dated c. 850–835 BCE) contains the phrase בית דוד (bytdwd), read as "House of David", which many scholars confirm to be a likely plausible match to the existence in the mid-9th century BCE of a Judean royal dynasty called the House of David.

Depicted as a valorous warrior of great renown, and a poet and musician credited for composing much of the psalms contained in the Book of Psalms, King David is widely viewed as a righteous and effective king in battle and civil justice. He is described as a man after God's own heart in 1 Samuel 13:14 and Acts 13:22.

Björn Dawidsson

Björn Dawidsson (born Örebro, 1949) who publishes as Dawid, is a Swedish photographer based in Stockholm.

Biography

1969 - 1970 Christer Strömholm’s School of Photography

1971 Beckmans Art School, graphic design

Dawid made his debut as a photographer in the early 1970s. Art critics have called him the country’s last modern and its first postmodern artist, challenging the tradition and perceived ideal of documentary photography which at that time dominated the photographic scene in Sweden. With his strong focus on the formal aspects of photography, he constantly explores the medium’s material and visual possibilities as well as its limits, often balancing on a tightrope between the graphic and the photographic. Dawid incessantly discovers new angles to look at those ordinary objects that surround us, simultaneously paying tribute to and questioning their given form. The radicalness, which characterizes Dawid’s works, lies in the constant testing and transgression of this threshold. In 1973, he had his first big solo exhibition “Ingen älskar mig” (Nobody loves me) at Liljevalchs Konsthall in Stockholm/Sweden, showing a selection of 50 small camera prints from 35mm negatives. Dawid started early to experiment with large negative shapes. His exhibition “Rost” in 1983 at Fotografiska Museet/Moderna Museet in Stockholm/Sweden, was a defining work of his early career: an open-ended series with 25 images in the exhibition. It marked a significant moment in his career as his works were exhibited at one of the most important Scandinavian art institutions.