American photojournalist Lori Grinker began her career documenting the rise of the thirteen-year-old future heavyweight championship boxer Mike Tyson. Her work includes reportage of the destruction of the World Trade Center, and since 2004 she has documented the plight of Iraqi refugees. Grinker’s work has appeared in GEO, Stern, and Time. A member of Contact Press Images since 1988, she has received a World Press Photo Foundation Prize (1997), a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Fellowship (1998), and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant (1999).
There are numerous terra-cotta plaque figurines of females, some naked and others clothed, holding disks, mostly from northern Israel and Transjordan. Many come from border towns and towns whose…
This piece from Samaria shows lotus shoots sprouting from the base of each palmette, with alternating open and closed blossoms. The repetition of the images is characteristic of the art of this period…
The girl’s eyes are the heavens of love, a robe of light and splendour in which she clothes herself. Even when they are hidden by clouds of tears, lovers, do not be afraid to come near. Do not fear…