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In this photograph, Rebecca Lepkoff, known for her many photographs of the Lower East Side, turned her lens on a street scene in midtown Manhattan. As befitting her background in modern dance, there…
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Rebecca Lepkoff
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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This building, photographed by Liselotte Grschebina, is one of approximately four thousand Bauhaus-style buildings constructed in Tel Aviv, the most of any city in the world. The Nazi Party’s rise to…
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Liselotte Grschebina
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1935–1945
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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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Jaffee was best known for his photographs of people and cityscapes. In this photograph of empty benches, seemingly arranged for viewing an unknown event, he saw both an enigma and an abstract…
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N. Jay Jaffee
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1978
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Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
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Alfons Himmelreich
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940
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In 1940, Man Ray fled France to escape the Nazi occupation and temporarily settled in Los Angeles. There he established a studio and made a living by his photography (in Paris, he had worked as a…
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Man Ray
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1941
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Theda Bara (1885–1955) was born Theodosia Burr Goodman in Cincinnati. After completing public high school, Goodman moved to New York to become an actress. In advertisements for the Fox Film Company’s…
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Photographer Unknown
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915