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Subject Guide: Photography

Portrait of librarian Aron Freimann, seated outdoors. Photographer unknown. (Aron Freimann Collection AR 1184)

Photobooks

Anders Goldfarb: passed remains: Williamsburg, Greenpoint 1987- 2007 / Photos by Anders Goldfarb. Text by Bonnie Yochelson. DCV Books, 2021.

Austria : Fokus! Jetzt! : Fotografin im Exil = Focus! Click!:photographer in exile / Photos by Maria Austria. Text by Andrea Winklbauer.  Jüdisches Museum Wien, [2023].

Deutsche Juden heute / Photos by Leonard Freed. Edited by Hans Hermann Köper. Rütten & Loening Verlag, 1965.

Ernst Haas : New York in color, 1952-1962 / Photos by Ernst Haas. Text by Phillip Prodger, et al. Prestel Verlag, 2020.

Eva Besnyö : 1910-2003, Fotografin = woman photographer / Photos by Eva Besnyö. Text by Marion Beckers, et al. Hirmer, 2011. 

Lisl Baby : ich bin die Scheherazade der Fotografie = I am the Scheherazade of photography / Photos by Lisl Steiner. Text by Lisl Steiner, et al. Translation by Brigitte Scott. Edition Lammerhuber, 2015.

Roman Vishniac rediscovered / Photos by Roman Vishniac. Text by Maya Benton, et al. DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2015

Rudi: discovering the Weissenstein archive / Photos by Rudi Weissenstein. Text by Amir Kliger, et al. Kehrer Verlag, 2016.  

Studio portrait of Albert Einstein in Berlin. Taken by Gertrud Munckel. (Albert Einstein Collection AR 136)

Books About Photographers

Documentors of the dream: pioneer Jewish photographers in the land of Israel, 1890-1933 / by Vivienne Silver-Brody. Jewish Publication Society, 1998.

Gerda Taro - Fotoreporterin : mit Robert Capa im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg : die Biografie / by Irme Schaber. Jonas, 2013.

Gisèle Freund: ein Leben / by Bettina de Consnac. Arche, 2008.

Man Ray, American artist / by Neil Baldwin. Da Capo Press, 1991.

Man Ray, impatient innovator / by Helen Dudar. Smithsonian Associates, 1988.

Solomon Nunes Carvalho: painter,  photographer, and prophet in nineteenth century America / Jewish Historical Society of Maryland. Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1989.

Shem Tov Halevi, Tétouan (Morocco). Taken by Isaiah Wyner. (Part of the Joel A. Zack papers, ASF AR 78)

Books About Photography (General)

The Jewish engagement with photography / edited by Michael Berkowitz & Martin Roman Deppner; translations from German by Christo Wilkins. BIS-Verlag der Carl von Ossietzky Universität, 2017.

Jews in the world of photography / by Henry Rand. Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey, 1998.

Jews and photography in Britain / by Michael Berkowitz. University of Texas Press, 2015.

Photography and the Holocaust / by Sybil Milton & Genya Markon. Special issue of the journal History of Photography, v. 23, no. 4, Winter 1999.

Through Soviet Jewish eyes : photography, war, and the Holocaust / by David Shneer. Rutgers University Press, 2011.