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Dorothy Bohm was known for her photographic still lifes, portraits, reportage, social documentary, and landscapes, such as this one, expressing her interest in capturing “poetic, mysterious…
Margaret Michaelis-Sachs stands with her back to the camera, looking out on a landscape seemingly devoid of other people. The photographs she made in Australia were different from the lively street…
William Zorach created Spirit of the Sea at the request of the City of Bath, which wanted a fountain for a city park. The sculpture is similar to others in his oeuvre in that it consists of a figure…
And if Moyshe-Leyb, the poet, tells
That he saw Death on the high waves—
Just as he sees himself in a mirror,
And it was in the morning, around ten—
Will they believe Moyshe-Leyb?
And if Moyshe…
Anna Ticho’s life work was drawing the landscapes of the Judean Mountains and Jerusalem. In the 1950s, she was able more easily to access these landscapes when she bought a house in Motza, a town on…
The sea
tore a rib from its side
and said:
Go! Lie down there, be
a sign that I
am great and mighty.
Go
be a sign.
The canal
lies at my window,
speechless.
What can be sadder
than water
without…
Beginning in 1958, Orkin took photographs from the window of her fifteenth-floor apartment overlooking New York City’s Central Park. She wrote that she spent a lot of time waiting “for the clouds to…
Who is to blame that I don’t see your tree,
Garden in snow, my garden in snow.
Who is to blame that I don’t see your tree—
When a woman goes out for a stroll in your snow,
Her bosom rising and…
When night draws near your window, come to him naked.
Softly will he ripple and darken round your still beauty, touching the tips of your breasts.
I shall stand with him there, a stray wanderer…
Ben-Dov was the founder of the photography department in the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. This photograph of an art student posing as the biblical Ruth is faithful to the Bezalel mission to…
