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Akedah
Albert J. Winn
1995
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The work of American photographer Albert J. Winn was primarily autobiographical and addresses issues of gender and religious, ethnic, and sexual identity. In 1993 he received a National Endowment for the Arts/Western States Arts Federation Fellowship for his collection of photographs and stories, My Life Until, dealing with his life as a gay Jewish man living with AIDS. Winn’s photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress; the Jewish Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Light Work (Syracuse University); and the Visual AIDS Archive, New York City. He lives in Los Angeles.
These silver Torah finials are from Corfu and were made between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by an artist whose initials were A.Z. They were used in the Scuola Greca Synagogue, which…
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“Up in the sky! It’s a bird!
It’s a plane! It’s…Superman!”
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