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The Photo League was notable for the large number of women who participated in it; about one-third of its members were women. Vivian Cherry’s work was influential in shaping the style and iconography…
Nahal Oz, located in the Negev close to the border of the Gaza strip, was founded in 1951 as Israel’s first Nahal settlement. These were established by soldiers to provide a first line of defense…
In 1940, Man Ray fled France to escape the Nazi occupation and temporarily settled in Los Angeles. There he established a studio and made a living by his photography (in Paris, he had worked as a…
Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…
Summer Evening is one of a series of photographs William Klein took in Rome in 1956 when he was there to serve as an assistant on a movie directed by Federico Fellini. Shooting was delayed, so the…
The National and University Library building, designed by Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron, is a cube supported by free-standing columns, with glass walls on the ground floor. It is a prime example of the…
Gross was known for his wooden sculptures and his focus on the human figure. He first studied art on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when he came to the United States and he later taught there at the…
Aron’s photographs of Jewish communities portray their vibrancy but also document aspects of Jewish cultural, religious, and economic life that are changing and/or in danger of vanishing altogether…
Jaffee was best known for his photographs of people and cityscapes. In this photograph of empty benches, seemingly arranged for viewing an unknown event, he saw both an enigma and an abstract…
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…
