Born in Hollywood to a toy manufacturer and a silent-film actress, Ruth Orkin was a photographer and filmmaker. Her first major project was her documentation of a bicycle trip from Los Angeles to New York to the 1939 World’s Fair, when she was seventeen. Later a professional photojournalist, Orkin achieved renown in 1951 for her photograph An American Girl in Italy, from a series chronicling the experiences of women traveling alone. The following year, she and her husband, Morris Engel, produced Little Fugitive, a feature film that was nominated for an Academy Award in 1953. In the 1970s and 1980s, she took a series of photographs of Central Park from the window of her apartment; it was published in two acclaimed books, A World through My Window, and More Pictures from My Window.
Please listen to my words,
Wise, honest, and beautiful women
For my riddle is complete:
Against your faithful crew [of women]
Old men
Raise your shame to the stars
While I protect you,
Defend you…
A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue was the first Hebrew-language manual printed in North America. Its author Judah Monis, knowing that all undergraduates at Harvard University were required to learn…
Bruce Davidson took a series of photographs documenting the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. This one, with its dramatic, almost abstract composition, was taken in 1963, the year before…