Born in New York, photographer Vivian Cherry began working in the 1940s, and in 1947 she joined the social realist Photo League. She studied with Sid Grossman, one of its founders. After an extended break from photography, from 1957 to 1987, Cherry took up her camera again. She exhibited extensively and her works are part of the permanent collections in numerous museums, including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
The Committee for the Consolidation of Hebrew Youth appeals to you only in order that you understand the very essence of what is in common between you and the rest of Hebrew youth, which operates in…
Solomon Nunes Carvalho painted this portrait of Wakara (ca. 1808–1855) of the Timpanogos tribe (later chief of the Utah Indians) after returning from a trip to the territories of Kansas, Colorado, and…
Technically I was a man.
This spindly squeaky thing with the Adam’s-apple accent was, by virtue of being thirteen and bar-mitzvahed, a technical man.
And so the phone call came: they needed a tenth…