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Zusammen und zu Fuss.
Their backpacks on, Enzo and Mimmo walk at a steady pace along the Appian Way, not saying a word.
They won’t go very far this time though, because Enzo has a lot to do before…
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.Born in Pittsburgh, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was brought up in Oakland, California. She graduated from Radcliffe College in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Perhaps the most iconic photograph of the Six Day War is this one, of three Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall shortly after its capture by the Israeli army on the third day of the war. A few…
Micha Bar-Am took this intimate photograph of Golda Meir soon after she became prime minister of Israel. She was the world’s fourth female prime minister and, as of 2022, the only woman to hold the…
This ad for an exhibition at California State University Fullerton was intended as a manifesto. The artist Judy Gerowitz announced that she was divesting herself of “all names imposed upon her through…
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,”…
