Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer was educated in the United States, but returned to Mexico in 1956. He is a self-taught photographer whose works have appeared in more than 200 exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide and are part of permanent collections in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Meyer founded two Mexican photography organizations, the Grupo Arte Fotográfico and the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, and established the photography Web site ZoneZero, which hosts the work of more than 1,000 photographers. He lectures widely about photography and new technologies.
This bronze, cast, and gilt Hanukkah lamp from France is decorated with the head of a warrior wearing a laurel wreath, most likely meant to depict Judah Maccabee, leader of the uprising against the…
This medal for St. Stephanskirche in Vienna provides an example of the style innovated by its engraver Jacques Wiener (1815–1899), in which the exterior of a building appears on one side and the…
In 1950, when this photograph was taken, much of London’s East End was in ruins, the result of heavy bombing during World War II. Its glory days as a vibrant Jewish immigrant community were over, and…