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Erika Stone’s photography frequently features odd juxtapositions. Here, the face of a woman on a huge advertisement painted on the brick wall of a tenement building provides a striking contrast with…
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…
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…
Nahalat Binyamin Street was the longest road in the city during Tel Aviv’s earliest years. In the 1920s, it was paved and became Tel Aviv’s main commercial street. Over the next few decades, new…
The hotels designed by Morris Lapidus in the 1950s and 1960s, including the Fontainebleau, were pioneers of what came to be known as “Miami Modern” (MiMo), the signature style of resort hotels in…
In what became an iconic image of the civil rights movement, Abraham Joshua Heschel was photographed marching with other civil rights leaders from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on March 21, 1965.…
Fink is well known for his photographs of upper-crust Americans at weddings, parties, and other occasions where wealth and status are on display, as in this photograph where objects take priority over…
This scene is from the 1917 Vilna Troupe production of Fishl Bimko’s Ganovim (Robbers), featuring, from left to right, Morris Tarlov, Avrom Teytlboym, Herts Grosbard, Luba Kadison, and Noyekh Nakhbush…
This photograph was made by the young graphic artist and photographer Solomon Yudovin in the context of his participation in Jewish writer, folklorist, and cultural activist S. An-ski’s famed…
Paul Goldman was notable for keeping his distance from his subjects, perhaps as a show of respect. He photographed many of Israel’s early leaders. Here, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister…
