Former Tajik Barbers with Their Israeli Customers
Frédéric Brenner
1997
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Frédéric Brenner
b. 1959
Paris-born photographer Frédéric Brenner built his reputation photographing Jewish life in the Diaspora and Israel, chronicled in books that include Israel (1988), Jews/America/Representation (1996), Exile at Home (1998), and Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2003). He also directed the film The Last Marranos (1990). Brenner has had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York; the Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles; and the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne. In 1992 he received the Prix de Rome.
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