The work of Israeli photographer Elinor Carucci has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, and ARTnews. Her photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, as well as galleries in New York and London. Carucci has received numerous awards, including an ICP Infinity Award (2001) and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in New York City and teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
Because observant Jews do not light fires or cook on the Sabbath, they prepare hot meals before the beginning of the Sabbath. In some communities, families brought their Sabbath stew (known as cholent…
The Aron Schuster Synagogue was built in the expressionist style of the Amsterdam School, a movement that flourished from 1910 to about 1930 and that favored brick construction and copious decoration…
This photograph of girls at a bat mitzvah was shot by Greenfield for a project about teenagers in Los Angeles. She was interested, she has said, “in how kids in Los Angeles seem to grow up quickly…