Creator Bio
Pesi Girsch
b. 1954
Born in Germany, Pesi Girsch immigrated to Israel in 1968. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Israel and Germany. Among other honors, she received an America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant (1989) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Leon Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist (1999).
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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If One Day during Purim, Everybody by Chance Will Disguise Themselves as Orthodox Jews, Will the Messiah Come?
This photograph of two Jews reduces them to an abstraction, a single black shape, in a composition that includes the round shapes of manhole covers, the curving black lines of a street grating, and…