Jewish Sensibility and the Photography of New York
Max Kozloff
2002
[One] of the most evident features of New York photography has so far not been addressed by writers: the fact that, in every account, the great majority of the photographers concerned were or are Jews.
In truth, we’re largely dealing with a picture archive of an American city visualized by Jews, to which a few distinguished Gentiles have…
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