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Window on a Way of Life

The exhibition "Looks Given/Looks Taken: Jews and Urban Photography" frames a photographic lineage that took shape within the New York Photo League, where young Jewish-American photographers created a new sort of interpersonal street photography in the 1930s. These New York photographers entangle viewers in the evanescent matrix of street life, the play of body language and...

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