This series by Helmar Lerski pictured Jewish soldiers fighting with the British Army during World War II—all in all, about a hundred men and women. All the portraits are in Lerski’s distinctive…
Dad III was created for Family Business, photographer Epstein’s multi-media project about his father, William Epstein, and the fall of his family’s furniture store and real-estate business in Holyoke…
This Torah crown from Suriname was made originally in Amsterdam by Evert van Heerdan (active 1644–1683). It is a fine repoussé piece exemplifying the mastery of Dutch silverwork. Inscribed on the…
Among the most important innovators in twentieth-century photography, Helmar Lerski was born in Strasbourg as Israel Schmuklerski, the son of immigrants from Poland. He grew up in Zurich but in 1893 sailed to the United States, where he joined a German-speaking theater troupe (and changed his name). He did not take up photography until 1910, when he was thirty-nine. In 1915, he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a cameraman and a lighting technician on expressionist films. In the late 1920s he returned to portrait photography in the expressionist style, which he continued to pursue after settling in Tel Aviv in 1931. In 1948, he returned to Zurich.
This series by Helmar Lerski pictured Jewish soldiers fighting with the British Army during World War II—all in all, about a hundred men and women. All the portraits are in Lerski’s distinctive…
Dad III was created for Family Business, photographer Epstein’s multi-media project about his father, William Epstein, and the fall of his family’s furniture store and real-estate business in Holyoke…
This Torah crown from Suriname was made originally in Amsterdam by Evert van Heerdan (active 1644–1683). It is a fine repoussé piece exemplifying the mastery of Dutch silverwork. Inscribed on the…