Jane Logemann was born in Milwaukee. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions, including Abstraction & Language: A Dialogue, at La Maison Française, The French Embassy, Washington, D.C. (2003). She has participated in group shows in the United States, Israel, and Spain. Logemann’s artworks are at the Morgan Library, the Jewish Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the British Museum.
Plachy took this photograph on one of her many trips to Central and Eastern Europe. A photojournalist, she has said that she is drawn to scenes peripheral to the actual news story. Here, reflections…
Despite gender restrictions, Jewish women played central roles as religious leaders in the early modern period. Meet the female leader of one of the most controversial cults in Jewish history.
You strangers with the broad, thick-veined hands,
Crooked legs and faces hard as leather,
Smelling of sea and tar
And of the rust of thick anchor chains;
Oh, you, strangers to all nations and tongues…