American photographer Judy Gelles has published three books: When We Were Ten (1997), Florida Family Portrait (2002), and Beach Boxes (2004). Her works are found in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and other collections. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1997). She lives in Philadelphia.
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Emmanuel Evzerichin was one of several Soviet Jewish photographers who documented the battle of Stalingrad. Many of his photographs were unusual in that they focused not on combat, but on the effects…