Using previously unknown photographs, a new Holocaust documentary demands to be seen
In ‘From Where They Stood,’ harrowing images were taken by the concentration camp prisoners themselves
In ‘From Where They Stood,’ harrowing images were taken by the concentration camp prisoners themselves
B.A. Van Sise’s photographs aren’t stereotypical — and that's exactly the point
William Klein’s humor and social conscience have informed his work since the 1940s
If there’s a definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, it’s “The Soiling of Old Glory” — Stanley Forman’s spot news winner for the Boston Herald American in 1976. In it, a youth turns an American flag into a weapon to use against a Black man at a school busing protest. Then again, make that two definitive photos:…
On the morning of April 1st, 2020, about two weeks after the United States entered a national state of emergency and Governor Gavin Newsom issued California’s first statewide stay-at-home order, Alon Goldsmith slung his camera bag over his shoulder, hopped on his bicycle, and began pedaling through the quiet, empty streets of the Del Rey…
After my father – a Holocaust survivor — passed away in 1991 I found an old leather valise he had brought with him from Germany. Inside were hundreds of still photographs he had taken right after liberation with a Leica IIIc. They included scenes around Germany; in particular, Lubeck, where I was born in 1949….
For my thirteenth birthday, my stepfather gave me a camera. I had just arrived in New York City without any spoken English, but his gift enabled me to begin to communicate with the world through images. It was the beginning of a lifelong passion. Now, I am a professional photographer, one who has spent her…
The photographer and critic Hal Fischer worked on the front lines of history, recording gay life in San Francisco in the 1970s in the period between the Stonewall riots and the AIDS crisis. He captured the era’s vibrancy, pleasures and hazards through images of his ex-boyfriends, street scenes and idiosyncratic menswear. Now, over 40 years…
THE TEMPLE EMANU-EL STREICKER CENTER and Virtual
Aug 10, 2022
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Will the last Jew left in New York’s congressional delegation be reelected? Will New York’s senior congresswoman receive another term? Or will one of the newcomers upend Manhattan politics?