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Beginning in 1958, Orkin took photographs from the window of her fifteenth-floor apartment overlooking New York City’s Central Park. She wrote that she spent a lot of time waiting “for the clouds to…
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Ruth Orkin
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New York, United States of America
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1976
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Hecker’s design for the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews (Polin) proposed a complex of two buildings: one a rectangular concrete block and the other a lighter metal and glass structure. The…
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Zvi Hecker
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Warsaw, Poland
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2005
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Ninio works in a variety of artistic disciplines, including photography. Here, a structure high in the clouded sky suggests the ability to view the world below.
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Moshe Ninio
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1990
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Rabinovitz’s sculptures are characterized by the use of minimal elements that are granted symbolic meaning through the text or title that accompanies them, commonly taken from the Bible or other…
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Israel Rabinovitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1990
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This photograph by Moshe Gross is very much in the tradition of Zionist and Israeli iconography, which favored images stressing the heroic aspects of Zionism and the “new Jews” who were building…
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Moshe Gross
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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For many years, Amiram Erev worked as a photographer for Solel Boneh, the large Israeli construction company founded by the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labor. The company played a key…
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Amiram Erev
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Nof HaGalil, Israel
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1960–1965
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This pastoral painting is typical of the work of Charles Towne. His landscapes were not realistic depictions of actual places, but instead romantic views of idealized scenes. He cited seventeenth…
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Charles Towne
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Merseyside, United Kingdom
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1812
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Assurbanipal Feasting in Palace Garden, relief from the palace of Assurbanipal (reigned 669–627 BCE) in Nineveh. The king and his queen are surrounded by ornamental and fruit trees, palms, and vines…
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669–627 BCE
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In this detail from the left side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud, two ibexes are eating the flora of a schematic tree, all set above a striding lion. These common motifs are typically…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Iron Age IIB, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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From Jerusalem, this seal is made of bone. The fish image, a motif known only from Hebrew seals, suggests plenty and fertility (cf. Genesis 48:16) and may also allude to the life-giving nature of…
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB–IIC, 7th Century BCE