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Alfred Bernheim’s intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt portrays her as casual and self-confident, lounging on a couch and smoking a cigarette. Arendt was one of the most famous intellectuals of the…
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Alfred Bernheim
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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Vishniac’s photographs of Jews in Eastern Europe, which were among the last to document these communities before their destruction in the Holocaust, have become iconic images. The best known of them…
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Roman Vishniac
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1935–1938
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The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…
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Zvi Orushkes (Oron)
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1927
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Bassan is particularly well known for his photographs of the Old Yishuv, the community of Jews established well before the arrival of Zionist pioneers. He was the first Jewish photographer born in…
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Tsadok Bassan
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Jerusalem (Palestine, Palestine)
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1920–1929
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Lerski’s portrait of a young Polish Jewish immigrant to Palestine is in his distinctive, expressionist style. Using mirrors and reflectors to emphasize the transformative powers of light, Lerski liked…
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Helmar (Helmut) Lerski
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1931–1935
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The photomontages that Benor-Kalter began to make in the 1930s were a departure from his earlier straightforward style and allowed him to use photography to create visual metaphors. Here, a…
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Jacob Benor-Kalter
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1929–1939
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After the Yom Kippur War (1973), it became increasingly common for Israeli artists to address political issues and criticize Israeli society. In 1974, Na’aman placed two signs on the Tel Aviv beach…
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Michal Na’aman
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1974
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© 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
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Louis Stettner
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1975
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Beginning in 1958, Orkin took photographs from the window of her fifteenth-floor apartment overlooking New York City’s Central Park. She wrote that she spent a lot of time waiting “for the clouds to…
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Ruth Orkin
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
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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…
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Annie Leibovitz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1999