Creator Bio
Meir Gal
b. 1958
Israeli-born photographer Meir Gal tackles political and social issues in his art. Among his best-known works are those that protest discrimination against Israel’s Mizrahim. In 1997, he received the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Award. Gal is a lecturer at the City University of New York and at the School of Visual Arts, where he has developed and taught courses on art and activism.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Nine Out of Four Hundred (The West and the Rest)
In this photograph, which has become an important image to represent Mizraḥi protest in Israel, artist Meir Gal holds the official Jewish history textbook used in Israeli high schools in the 1970s by…