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The Jewish Women Who Pioneered Photography as Art

JL;DR SUMMARY The exhibition "2020: A Lens of Her Own" at the ANU-Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv highlights the significant contributions of Jewish women photographers from the early to mid-20th century, restoring their status as pioneers in the art of photography. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish WomenJewish ArtistsArt ExhibitionWeimar EraPhotographyHistorical FiguresAnu MuseumContemporary Photography

Places mentioned

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"In 1940s Jerusalem, German-born photographer Lou Landauer campaigned for funds to open a photography department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design."
Jerusalem, Israel
"In 1940s Jerusalem, German-born photographer Lou Landauer campaigned for funds to open a photography department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design."
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, France
"Polish-born Julia Pirotte photographed the French Resistance while fighting alongside them in Marseille, then returned to Poland to capture the aftermath of the 1946 Kielce pogrom."
Kielce, Holy Cross, Poland
"Polish-born Julia Pirotte photographed the French Resistance while fighting alongside them in Marseille, then returned to Poland to capture the aftermath of the 1946 Kielce pogrom."
Germany
"These women traveled widely and exhibited internationally. Many had trained at the famed Bauhaus school in Germany, where Lucia Moholy, also in the exhibition, helped build a photography department with her then-husband, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy."
France
"Most worked in Western EuropeBerlin, Vienna, Paris."
Vienna, Austria
"Most worked in Western EuropeBerlin, Vienna, Paris."
Paris, Île-de-France, France
"Most worked in Western EuropeBerlin, Vienna, Paris."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Photo of artist Pablo Picasso by Madame DOra (left). Hasidim in Brooklyn by street photographer Amy Touchette. Madam DOra, Pablo Picasso, 1955 Estate of Mad, Museum Fr Kunst Und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (left); Amy Touchette, Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N.Y., part of the Street Diaries series"
United Kingdom
"Then there is Austrian-born British photographer Edith Tudor-Hart, a Soviet agent who helped recruit the Cambridge Five, a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union."

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