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Scribe, N.Y.C.
Seymour Edelstein
1988
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After a career as a graphic designer in Los Angeles, Chicago–born Seymour Edelstein turned to photography, documenting shopkeepers and other people in their workplaces. His work can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, and the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Edelstein taught at the Otis-Parsons School of Design and the University of California.
[ . . . ] Now you know and are witness that I have composed several works on various topics. However, I did not write them in order to publish them; rather, I prepared them for my own use, to…
Ben-Dov was the founder of the photography department in the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. This photograph of an art student posing as the biblical Ruth is faithful to the Bezalel mission to…
With the holy poem
clenched between my teeth,
I set forth alone
from that wolf-cave, my home,
to roam
street after street
like a wolf
with his solitary bone.
There is prey enough in the street
to…