Richard Nagler is a San Francisco Bay–based photographer and art promoter. He sponsored the Richard Nagler Competition for Jewish Photography, an annual international competition at the Judah L. Magnes Museum. Nagler has published several books of his photographs, including My Love Affair with Miami Beach, with text by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1991).
This engraving depicting a Jewish woman in Cairo, Egypt, is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus…
This faience amulet from Lachish depicts the Egyptian goddess Isis sitting on a throne and holding her son, the god Horus, on her lap, a common artistic motif in Egyptian amulets. The legs are broken…
This ad for an exhibition at California State University Fullerton was intended as a manifesto. The artist Judy Gerowitz announced that she was divesting herself of “all names imposed upon her through…