Photography

The Days After

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:57:00 +0000

Photography

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

Exhibit on Hiroshima shows previously classified images of the destruction, inviting comparisons to the Holocaust.

Whether or not America did enough for Jews during the Second World War has long been debated. But even those who say the United States did far too little concede that had the United States not entered the war and won, Jews might have been killed in far higher numbers than the already atrociously high six million.

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The Days After

Lisa Shimabukuro — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:58:00 +0000

Photography

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

Exhibit on Hiroshima shows previously classified images of the destruction, inviting comparisons to the Holocaust.

Closeup Pictures, From A Distance

James Besser — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:01:46 +0000

Photography

Caroline Lagnado

Special To The Jewish Week

Comfort and detachment in the photos of Yael Ben-Zion at the 92nd Street Y.

In a series of photographs currently being exhibited at the Milton J. Weill Art Gallery at the 92nd Street Y, Yael Ben-Zion, a New York-based photographer evokes life in modern-day Israel. Born in Minneapolis and raised in Arad in southern Israel, Ben-Zion moved to the States to pursue advanced law studies at Yale only to pick up a camera and fall in love with photography while working on her law degree.

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Israel, Caught In All Its Complexities

Dani Shetrit — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:51:37 +0000

Photography

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

Rina Castelnuovo’s photos, at the Meislin Gallery.

On Tuesday, Andrea Meislin, an art dealer in New York, was on her way to Washington. Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, had asked her to help decorate his new home, knowing that she represented some of Israel’s most prominent photographers. But Meislin, unsure of Oren’s politics and his artistic tastes, was packing light. She was bringing only her laptop for this trip, she said, which contained images of all her artwork, instead of carrying just a few select prints. She did not want to offend him with any of her own choices.

Israel, Caught In All Its Complexities

James Besser — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:23:44 +0000

Photography

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

Rina Castelnuovo’s photos, at the Meislin Gallery.

On Tuesday, Andrea Meislin, an art dealer in New York, was on her way to Washington. Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, asked her to help decorate his new home, knowing that she represented some of Israel’s most prominent photographers. But Meislin, unsure of Oren’s politics and his artistic tastes, was packing light. She was bringing only her laptop for this trip, she said, which contained images of all her artwork, instead of carrying just a few select prints. She did not want to offend him with any of her own choices.

Zooming In On South Africa

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:11:58 +0000

Photography

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

David Goldblatt’s photographs, on exhibit at The Jewish Museum,
chronicle everyday life under apartheid.

David Goldblatt, the South African photographer, can paint two portraits of his father, a Jewish shop-owner in a traditional mining town. In one, Goldblatt tells how his father would drink tea with a white Nationalist, a member of the right-wing party that staunchly defended apartheid, outside behind his men’s clothing store. “He was friends with some of them,” Goldblatt says of his father. “Many Jews were.”

A New Medium For Holocaust Stories

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:40:20 +0000

Photography

Doug Chandler

Special To The Jewish Week

Part graphic novel, part documentary, ‘motion comics’
help attract viewers to difficult topics.

The creators of “They Spoke Out: American Voices Against the Holocaust,” a new series of motion comics, can each talk about why that relatively new medium is best suited for telling the stories they chose — those of Americans who helped rescue Jews in the 1930s and ‘40s.

But perhaps no explanation is more compelling than the one offered by Neal Adams, a legend in the comic-book industry and the illustrator of the new series.

Passover Form And Function

James Besser — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:51:55 +0000

Photography

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

For Israeli photographer Galia Gur Zeev, the seder table suggests multiple meanings.

A few things immediately come to mind when you think, "Passover seder": matzah, maror, charoset, four glasses of wine. But in "Seder.Table," a cool, stark and fascinating new photography exhibit at the 92nd Street Y, none of that matters. In fact, the artist, Galia Gur Zeev, while showing several plates, people around them, and a large wooden table, doesn't even show a crumb of food.

Zion’s World

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:19:38 +0000

Photography

by Steve Lipman

Staff Writer

Zion Ozeri, globetrotting photographer who lives on the Upper East Side, packs a few camera bodies, several lenses and lots of film when he sets off on a working trip.
But that’s not the most vital part of his job.

“I have a big smile,” says Ozeri, whose pictures of Israeli families, with roots in native lands around the world, are featured in these pages. “People have to trust you. You have to convince them to allow you into their homes.”

Present At The Creation

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:18:20 +0000

Photography

by Steve Lipman

Staff Writer

The State of Israel does not have a state photographer, but if it did, he would be an 83-year-old native of Vienna.
David Rubinger came to Israel in 1939 as part of the Youth Aliyah movement, received his first camera in 1945, started his photo-journalist career by shooting pictures of Jerusalemites celebrating the UN’s approval of the Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947, and never stopped shooting.

Can A Swastika Be Funny?

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:59:41 +0000

Photography

by Steve Lipman 

Staff Writer

A squid giving the Nazi salute to a man who is wearing a swastika armband. A man wearing a swastika telling a like-garbed friend that their pet parrot “talks, but only if you torture him.” The serpent in the Garden of Eden telling Adam and Eve, swastikas on their arms, “You ate something that made you stupid.”
From the man best known for his cartoon of a legless frog in a high-class restaurant come more cartoons, enough to fill a book, that push the boundaries of good taste or make a searing political statement, depending on your point of view.