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Iofin’s portrait of his parents, painted before his emigration from the Soviet Union, was a sly protest against Socialist Realism. He painted in the style but parodied it by overloading his picture…
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Michael Iofin
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1984
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Plachy took this photograph on one of her many trips to Central and Eastern Europe. A photojournalist, she has said that she is drawn to scenes peripheral to the actual news story. Here, reflections…
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Sylvia Plachy
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Dachau, West Germany (Dachau, Germany)
Date:
1985
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To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…
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Charlotte Salomon
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1941–1943
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For my daughter Nedjé
and for her husband Armand Bengui.
Where word and spirit make feeling divine
I see creation and I see poetry . . .
But I know I risk the sin of heresy
If I say the words and…
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Sadia Lévy
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Monte Carlo, France
Date:
1957
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The de Pinto family were wealthy merchant bankers who lived in Amsterdam from the seventeenth century on. In the Iberian Peninsula, members of the family converted to Christianity at the end of the…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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17th Century
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Carucci is known for exploring the complex intimacies of family life in her photographs. She has said that she doesn’t deliberately set out to be provocative but rather strives for unflinching honesty…
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Elinor Carucci
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2001
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The Christian parable of the prodigal son, from Luke 15:11–12, was a favorite subject of artists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. A son squanders his inheritance and is reduced to…
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Henry Mosler
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1879