Boris Carmi was a pioneer of Israeli press photography who documented the early years of the state. Born Boris Vinograd in Moscow, Carmi left Russia in 1930 and studied ethnography at the Sorbonne. There he took an interest in photography, which he pursued professionally after his arrival in Palestine in 1939. During World War II, Carmi was a photographer for the British army; later he worked for the Haganah and, after the War of Independence, for the Israel Defense Forces. Throughout his career, Carmi took photographs for Israeli newspapers and journals that captured periods of turbulence and hope, demonstrating sensitivity toward his subjects. Carmi’s images are central to the collective memory of Israel and have been featured in several exhibitions there, as well as in solo shows in Berlin and Frankfurt.
If we Jews had our patron saints, the priest-prophet Ezekiel would be the patron saint of those of us who are vitally concerned in the outcome of the present crisis in…
Segalove mines her own life for personal narratives as a source for her feminist, conceptual, video, and performance art. Jewish Boys, a photograph of text, tells an anecdote about her first day in a…
Solomon Nunes Carvalho is thought to have made this daguerreotype self-portrait when he was already well trained in the art of photography. A few years after he made this portrait, in 1853 and 1854…