ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Life in acute focus
TOM KING recommends two outstanding exhibitions of Roman Vishniac's documentary photographs
Three women, Mukacevo, ca. 1935-38
[Roman Vishniac]
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
Jewish Museum and Photographers’ Gallery, London
YOU would struggle to find a more comprehensive study of Jewish life in the 20th century than that carried out by Roman Vishniac, whose extraordinary body of work is currently on show at both the Photographers’ Gallery and the Jewish Museum in London.
Burlesque dancer entertaining servicemen and other patrons while balancing a glass on her head, Leon & Eddie's, 52nd Street, New York, 1945 (Pic: Roman Vishniac )
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