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Summer Evening, Via di Monserrato, Rome
William Klein
1956
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Born in New York, William Klein is an innovative photographer and filmmaker, respected for his contributions to American Vogue during the 1950s and 1960s. Following his service in the military during World War II, Klein studied art in Paris with the French painter Fernand Léger. In 1954, a series of Klein’s kinetic sculptures brought him to the attention of the art director at Vogue. Klein’s passion for street photography reoriented the direction of fashion photography; he photographed his models outside the studio. He also designed and produced a number of photo books of his personal work. In 1965, Klein left Vogue to return to Paris, where he redirected his focus toward filmmaking.
Drawing of a wooden synagogue from Maximilian Syrkin’s 1910 article, “Drevníya derevyannyye sinagogi v pol’she litve” (Wooden Synagogues in Polish Lithuania). Wooden synagogues were a common form of…
The brothers Mike and Doug Starn often include materials such as Plexiglas, wood, nails, transparency film, scotch tape, wax, and pushpins in their photo-based mixed media works. One of their goals…
This banner of the London Jewish Bakers’ Union calls for (in both English and Yiddish) an eight-hour workday and an end to night work, for people to buy only bread “with the union label,” and for…
Detail from Old Wooden Synagogues in Polish Lithuania, Artist Unknown.
M. G. Syrkin, “Drevnie derevyannie sinagogi v pol’she i litve” [Old Wooden Synagogues in Poland and Lithuania], Novyi Voskhod 11 (1910). Image courtesy of the Library of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
Detail from The Diary of Anne Frank (Kristallnacht), Mike and Doug Starn.