Tag Archives: photography

(Poland) Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Photographs)

Posted on April 17, 2023 by zjb

These are 80 year-old photographic film prints being released by the Warsaw-based POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, as per this article here by Ofer Aderet at Ha’aretz. As per Aderet, whose language I am cribbing below, the … Continue reading →

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Polish Jew Carrying Cholent (Twitter)

Posted on November 18, 2022 by zjb

A Jew carries a pot of cholent [stew] to be cooked for the Sabbath. Photograph | Photograph Number: 11889 “A Jew carries a pot of cholent [stew] to be cooked for the Sabbath” Date Circa 1930 – 1939 Locale Poland … Continue reading →

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(Post-Diasporist) Poyln (Alter Kacyzne)

Posted on March 23, 2021 by zjb
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(Lachrymose Diaspora) Coins Jewels & Things Lost & Found (Colmar Treasure)

Posted on November 25, 2019 by zjb

With all due respect, the paltriness of the so-called Colmar Treasure, now on view at the Cloisters, is a lachrymose little testament. On loan from the Musée de Cluny in Paris, the “treasure” refers to the remains of valuables (coins, … Continue reading →

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(A Photograph) Muselmann (Henryk Ross)

Posted on May 3, 2019 by zjb

I was not aware that such a thing exists, but this seems to be a photograph of a “Muselmann.” The designation refers to those suffering hollowed out people, physically alive while pushed to the brink of psychic-spiritual death. Perhaps the … Continue reading →

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Night of the Cabbalist (Tim Gidal) (1935)

Posted on December 26, 2018 by zjb

Yes, you can stage photograph the spiritual in art. Found the image on Twitter and then tracked the reference to the Jewish Museum where i found these details. About Tim Gidal, you can find this here from his Wikipage: Bio: … Continue reading →

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Camera Lucida (Trump Rally)

Posted on October 28, 2016 by zjb

I bet we see a lot of this photograph by Nate Gowdy, of a Trump rally in Loveland, CO, on Oct. 3rd, 2016. Someone on FB said it could win a Pulitzer. It has the stuff of icon all over … Continue reading →

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(Photographs) Facts on the Ground (Shimon Attie)

Posted on June 20, 2016 by zjb

My initial thoughts going to see Shimon Attie’s recent show Facts on the Ground were going to be a little unkind. The reproduced images that I saw beforehand looked flat, and the use of text and illuminated light boxes looked gimmicky. And … Continue reading →

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Dye Sublimation Metal Prints (Cindy Sherman)

Posted on June 9, 2016 by zjb

Saw these new photographs by Cindy Sherman at Metro Pictures in Chelsea. They construct throwbacks to the cracked and glamorous masks worn by wealthy, ageing, independent women from the 1920s. The pictures all carry the uniform title, Untitled 2016. They are all … Continue reading →

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Photography & Painting (The Weinfeld Family) (Frédéric Brenner)

Posted on May 10, 2016 by zjb

In the Weinfeld Family (2009), Frédéric Brenner collapses photography and painting across multiple registers. Panning out, [1] paintings of rabbis and rabbinic tables hang over the family scene, [2] the pater familias himself looks very much like one of those painted figures, … Continue reading →

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