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).
When Arnold Newman was asked by Newsweek magazine to photograph industrialist Alfred Krupp, he initially refused. He was repelled by the idea of photographing a man who had been prosecuted as a war…
This prayer book for the Rosh Hashanah festival from Crete is elaborately decorated inside with drawings of animals and people and has a colorful title page. Greek (Romaniote/Byzantine) Jews had lived…
After immigrating to the United States in 1937, Ellen Auerbach continued her work as a children’s photographer. As a guest of the artist Fairfield Porter, she visited Great Spruce Head Island in Maine…