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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…
In Love Dub, small figures climb up the walls of the gallery wearing flipper-like footwear. A similar image was replicated in a tattoo, shown in a photograph as part of the installation. Katzenstein…
Akedah is one of a series of photographs made by Winn while he was undergoing treatment for AIDS. In each photograph, a Band-Aid covers the place on his body from which blood was taken or an injection…
Barbara Kruger produced Untitled (Your body is a battleground), her most famous work, in support of reproductive freedom at the time of the 1989 Women’s March on Washington, DC.
When Claude Cahun took this self-portrait photograph, she was still Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob and had not yet adopted her new gender-neutral name. She is wearing a pinafore, sitting quietly at a desk…
In this photograph shot on a snowy day in New York City, icy bare branches on the staircase of a building dwarf the people and two skyscrapers, creating a composition in which diagonal lines and…
This postcard was printed by the Bund to commemorate the death of a worker, Kagan (Kohen), who was arrested in Mozir (today, Mazyr, Belarus) in the midst of one of the numerous protests against the…
Ida Rubinstein, volunteering as a nurse in France during World War I, in a uniform specially designed for her by Leon Bakst. Dancer, actress, and patron of the arts Ida Rubinstein was born into a…
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868) achieved celebrity first as an actress, later gaining some literary following for her poetry. Uncertainty surrounds Menken’s family history, as she claimed various…
Chicago and her former husband Donald Woodman said that part of their motivation for their multimedia Holocaust Project was the realization of how cut off from their Jewish heritage and how detached…
