American photographer Judy Gelles has published three books: When We Were Ten (1997), Florida Family Portrait (2002), and Beach Boxes (2004). Her works are found in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and other collections. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (1997). She lives in Philadelphia.
Mother, there’s a tedium today,
some sadness that’s got into everything,
even an ambitious man’s dreams
show signs of a slow despair.
Mother, try loving
your self-despising son
on a day he’s alone
an…
Front page of the first issue of Moledet (Homeland), a Hebrew monthly for youth created by Simḥah Ben-Tsiyon and published by the Hebrew Teacher’s Union in Palestine from 1911 to 1946. The goal of the…
Léon Gimpel made improvements to the technology of the autochrome that shortened the exposure time needed for a color photograph to be taken. His color photographs are rare documents of everyday life…