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A. Leopold,
It would appear from your letter that you do not believe that art is a factor in civilization and progress. You are not the only one. One might agree with you that up to now no statue or…
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Sh. Yanovsky
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1906
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A wall.
A blunt wall of human backs, arms, legs.
A gray bulwark with white round stains.
A defeated army in a cave, before maneuvers,
Waiting for doors to open.
Not cages unlatched, in uproar.
No…
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A. Leyeles
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1918
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The Hand of Man appeared in the first issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work. Its title alludes both to the transformation of the natural world by humans and the capacity of humans to create…
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Alfred Stieglitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1902
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This is an age of progress; and, surrounded as we are to-day by every evidence of the astounding advance that the nineteenth century has carried with in its train, I feel that I am flinging down a…
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Julia Richman
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1893
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Napoleon Sarony took this photograph of Alla Nazimova in the English-language performance of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Alla Nazimova (1879–1945) was born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon in Yalta, Crimea, to…
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Napoleon Sarony
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1907
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Across from me in the subway sat the madonna
Crossing her legs,
Bending over a tabloid.
She read about a cashier-girl who jumped into the water
When her bridegroom left her with a rising belly.
The…
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A. Leyeles
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1937
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It’s hard to be clever these nights,
And useless to be modern.
Useless to smile knowingly and observe with melancholy
The language bastardisms of history:
“The government of the Republic is delivered…
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A. Leyeles
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New York City, United States of America
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1937
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And you’re dead. And you’ve not yet been covered by the ground;
Far through a thousand streets like horses galloping round,
Young and old newsboys spread, rushing about their business,
Hawking papers…
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Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1915
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Esteemed editor:
Permit me to say a couple of words about the educational work of the Arbeter Ring.
I think that the work, as now conducted, is wasted. As far as the Arbeter Ring’s courses go there…
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B. Sheyfer
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Buffalo, United States of America
Date:
1918
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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
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911