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photography
Photo exhibit highlights the human cost of our bounty
Roberto Loiederman
March 28, 2008
In the stark black-and-white photo, two small children play in and around water, as children anywhere might do on a hot day. But there\’s something odd about the image: it isn\’t the shore or a recreational pool they\’re playing in, but a concrete irrigation canal.
Q-and-A with Leonard Nimoy
Naomi Pfefferman
November 2, 2006
Leonard Nimoy became one of the staunchest advocates of the landmark\’s mammoth renovation and expansion project, along with his wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, donating $1 million toward its new Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon theater.
Bedouin life from a child’s eye view through a camera
Anita K. Kantrowitz
September 21, 2006
\”Passages Between the Past and Future: Photography by Bedouin Children of Abu Kaf, Israel,\” at the Venice Arts Gallery.
A Photojournalist’s Twist on Nazi Image
Tom Tugend
March 2, 2006
Following the Communist party line, Heartfield could lampoon the Social Democratic leaders of the Weimar Republic as viciously as he did the Nazis, sharpening the enmity between the two left-wing parties that paved the way for the Nazi takeover.
7 Days in The Arts
Keren Engelberg
September 15, 2005
Jews of the LBC rejoice as they finally get a film fest all their own. The first Long Beach Jewish Film Festival will be held today and tomorrow, thanks to the support of the Alpert JCC and the Cal State Long Beach Jewish studies program.
7 Days In Arts
Jewish Journal
May 6, 2004
Revolutionaries in the field of photography are celebrated in the Getty Museum\’s exhibition, \”Photographers of Genius,\” now on display, in honor of its 20 years of collecting photographic images.
Art Brings Life to Old Case Studies
Naomi Pfefferman
January 15, 2004
The eight stark photographs show scenes from a decaying mansion in West Adams, where a homeless parent and child \”squat\” amid dust and detritus. A microwave oven sits on a peeling bureau; a wall has crumbled between the toilet and living room.\n\nThe images — featured in \”Still Listening: 150 Years of Jewish Family Service\” — are photographer Albert Winn\’s present-day response to an old Jewish Family Service (JFS) case history. The 1934 report describes an impoverished family living in squalor behind a tin shop.
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