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In this photograph shot on a snowy day in New York City, icy bare branches on the staircase of a building dwarf the people and two skyscrapers, creating a composition in which diagonal lines and…
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Alfred Stieglitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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Sol Libsohn co-founded The Photo League, a socially conscious photographers’ collective, around the time he took this photograph. It captures a moment in the daily life of the people of a tenement…
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Sol Libsohn
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New York City, United States of America
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1933–1943
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Shadow and Synagogue is one of a series of about one hundred photographs by Tress that appear in his 1975 book, Shadow, A Novel in Photographs. In the book’s visual narrative, the photographer’s…
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Arthur Tress
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1974
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Over the course of five years, from 1980 to 1985, Davidson rode the subway for six hundred miles, with the aim of documenting the diversity and uniqueness of the passengers. At a time when the subway…
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Bruce Davidson
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1980
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This photograph of Jewish men on a Miami beach carrying their prayer books to synagogue on Rosh Hashanah appeared in Nagler and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1991 book, My Love Affair with Miami Beach. The…
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Richard Nagler
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Miami, United States of America
Date:
1986
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Commissioned to document people in their workplaces by a magazine, Edelstein was inspired to launch a project of photographing workers all over the world. Part of his series focused on shopkeepers…
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Seymour Edelstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1988
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Seura Chaya # 1 is one of many photographs that Wilke made of her mother and herself when they were dying of cancer. The two separate series were a continuation of her use of her art to focus on…
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Hannah Wilke
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1989
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Triple Silver Yentl (My Elvis) is part of what is known as Kass’s Jewish Warhol series, a feminist comment on Andy Warhol’s famous screen prints of celebrities. Kass used the same mass-production…
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Deborah Kass
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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This photograph of girls at a bat mitzvah was shot by Greenfield for a project about teenagers in Los Angeles. She was interested, she has said, “in how kids in Los Angeles seem to grow up quickly…
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Lauren Greenfield
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1993
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Simmons is best known for artworks in which she stages dolls, plastic figurines, and other inanimate objects in tableaus and then photographs them. In 1987, she began to use wooden ventriloquists’…
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Laurie Simmons
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1994