{"title":"Art \u0026 Photography Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Art \u0026amp; Photography Books collection. 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Incorporating international perspectives, it investigates his World War II poster art, labor-related work, and engagement in postwar artistic debates. It brings new insights to Shahn’s social realist and documentary styles and their evolution into allegorical, lyrical, and often abstract idioms that embrace the philosophical and the spiritual. And it demonstrates the underappreciated complexity of Shahn’s layered visual language and how he experimented with modernist conceptual strategies—often involving photography—to create his paintings, murals, drawings, prints, posters, illustrated books, and commercial designs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShahn’s guiding credo—formulated in the Cold War—asserted that nonconformity was the precondition for all significant art and great social change. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBen Shahn, On Nonconformity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e illuminates why the artist’s work should be seen as a series of “nonconformities” driven by his steadfast dedication to social justice and humanistic values.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished by the Jewish Museum, New York and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, in association with Princeton University Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INGPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44462881734759,"sku":"pxo1787285658130","price":27.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/1601\/0087\/files\/ben-shahn-on-nonconformity-by-laura-katzman_1.jpg?v=1787285663"},{"product_id":"the-posthumous-landscape-remnants-of-jewish-life-in-eastern-europe-by-david-kaufman","title":"The Posthumous Landscape: Remnants of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe by David Kaufman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA photographic tribute that highlights the stories behind remnants of Jewish communal life in post-war Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1992 Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer David Kaufman travelled to Poland to produce a television program about hidden child survivors of the Holocaust. A decade later, he returned to make films about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Łódź Ghetto. Kaufman was deeply moved by the quality of Jewish material culture—the physical remnants of Jewish life—that he saw on these early visits. In 2007 he set out on the first of many trips over two decades to record images of tenements, factories, synagogues, and cemeteries that were part of everyday Jewish life in pre-Holocaust eastern Europe. He also made photos of some of the places of despair and death where Jews were killed during the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Posthumous Landscape\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is more than an act of preserving memory. Kaufman brings his decades of documentary storytelling experience to bear, illuminating these places left behind. His photographs and accompanying texts describe a historic community that played a major role in the development of eastern European society and which left behind grand industrial complexes, urban neighborhoods, architectural landmarks, beautiful synagogues, as well as vast cemeteries, and haunting memorials. The photographs also tell the stories of the afterlives of those places, many repurposed, some lovingly cared for by non-Jews who remember, and others slowly returning to the earth, but which are preserved in this book’s pages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome readers will find here names from their own family histories. 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