Sid Grossman was an American photographer and teacher who cofounded New York’s Photo League, an organization of socially conscious photographers who documented the city’s rapidly changing neighborhoods and communities. In addition to his roles as director and teacher at the League, Grossman spent time photographing the American Midwest and Central America, though the majority of his work is dedicated to his native New York. After the Photo League disbanded in 1951, Grossman continued teaching privately and developed his creative practice in both photography and painting. Toward the end of his life, he created a series of landscapes and portraits in Cape Cod.
“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized…
Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
Gate, open
doorsill, creep near.
Room, I’m here;
back to the cell.
Fire in my flesh.
snow on my skull.
My shoulder heaves
a sack of grief.
Good-bye. Good-bye.
Hand. Eye.
Burning lip
charred by…