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Jewish Photographic Memories by Gabriela Landau
Gabriela Landau worked on many different assignments as a
photographer, but when she wandered
the streets of New York in the 1950s and
Ô60s, her camera focused on a particular and favorite subject:
the Lower East Side. Landau selected this
collection of her works for the show, which evoke memories
for the viewers and link them back to the
20th century.
Home to a large Jewish community, the Lower East Side was bustling
with activity. Corner delis, street
vendors, busy pedestrians, piles of pretzels and
handwritten Yiddish signs were some of the scenes and
characters Landau captured. This colorful world,
long gone, is suspended in time in her photographs.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art and University of Lyons, France have
some of these photographs in their
permanent collection.
Gabriela Landau received her photographic training in New York
City from Victor Laredo, a well-known photographer who has authored several
books. She worked with Fritz Henle, former Life
Magazine photographer, administering his studio and work in New York.
Edward Steichen, first curator of photography of the New York Museum of Modern
Art, requested her work for an exhibition. Landau,
who has received numerous honors,
specializes in documentary black-and-white photography. She
has been published in the New York Times, American Annual of
Photography, Modern Photography,
Salon
Photography, and Behold a Great
Image by the Jewish Publication Society.
Gabriela Landau was born in Germany and immigrated to Panama in
1939 with her family, and then
to Jacksonville, Florida in 1941. She met
her husband, Rabbi Sol Landau, in New York where they
married in 1951. They moved to congregations in
many communities throughout the United States
and then settled in Miami in 1965, when he
became the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth David.
AVAILABILITY Negotiable
CONTENT: 25
photographs of Lower East Side scenes and Jewish life, each framed 11Ó x 14Ó and larger.
4 photographs taken of Gabriela Landau
c. 1950
3 text panels: Landau biography, brief
history of photography as an art form, & brief history of the
Lower East Side.
SPACE REQUIREMENTS 80 linear
feet
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SECURITY Medium
CONTACT
Marcia Zerivitz, Founding Executive Director, 305-672-5044 ext. 3180
Ira Newman, Curator of
Traveling Exhibits, 305-672-5044 ext. 3165