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In The Writing on the Wall, Attie brought the ghosts of pre-World War II Jewish life in Berlin temporarily to life by projecting black-and-white slides of Jewish schools, bookstores, kosher butchers…
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…
The History of the Russian Revolution: From Marx to Mayakovsky is a large mixed-media work that incorporates paintings, architectural cutouts, stenciled lettering, and found objects. It is one of…
This photograph of a courtyard of the Sarajevo Synagogue is included in Serotta’s 1991 book, Out of the Shadows: A Photographic Portrait of Jewish Life in Central Europe, which collected photographs…
Emmanuel Evzerichin was one of several Soviet Jewish photographers who documented the battle of Stalingrad. Many of his photographs were unusual in that they focused not on combat, but on the effects…
Best known for his New York City street photography, Speier was always on the lookout for unexpected and often humorous juxtapositions of incongruous elements to photograph. In this scene, visitors to…
Weinfeld, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, produced artworks addressing the question of who she would have been if she had herself been a prisoner in a concentration camp? Would she have been…
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…
German Chancellor Willie Brandt went down on his knees at the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on a trip to Poland. He was there to sign the Treaty of Warsaw, a key element of his “Ostpolitik,”…
The brothers Mike and Doug Starn often include materials such as Plexiglas, wood, nails, transparency film, scotch tape, wax, and pushpins in their photo-based mixed media works. One of their goals…
