Among the common themes of Washington, D.C.–born Nan Goldin’s provocative photographic portraits are love, gender, and sexuality. Her subject matter has included the alternative club scene, drag queens, and friends dying of AIDS, and she often presents her work as slideshows. Goldin’s art was the subject of major retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1996) and the Georges Pompidou Centre (2002). She is the recipient of the Hasselblad Award (2007). In 1995, she collaborated with British filmmaker Edmund Coulthard on I’ll Be Your Mirror, a film about her life and work. She lives in New York and Paris.
This portrait of Dorothy Richman, a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York, appeared in Leibovitz’s 1999 book, Women. Richman was one of the first female rabbinical…
This scene in a bomb shelter during World War I is characterized by the empathy and intimacy with which many of Amy Julia Drucker’s London paintings were imbued. The children stand out amid the masses…
In 1913 a Jewish girls’ school in Vilna called Yehudiyah, which provided supplementary education for girls aged seven to eighteen, published a publicity pamphlet in Yiddish…