American-born Louis Stettner was known for his photographs of everyday life in New York and Paris. After serving as an army combat photographer during World War II, he taught at the Photo League in New York, organizing on its behalf the first New York exhibition of postwar French photography, in 1947. Stettner also sculpted, painted, and worked in mixed media, painting on his own photographs. His work found recognition in galleries and museums around the world and was collected in numerous exhibitions.
Early in the morning he went out to carry out the assignment which he had been given. Jerusalem seemed to be tired and her hair was unkempt. The first revellers had reached the streets. One window was…
This Haggadah from Venice was commissioned by Moses ben Gerson Parenzo, the last of the Parenzo Hebrew printers, and issued at the Caleoni press on behalf of the Bragadini family. This page shows the…