Tempe, Arizona, etc. (photo essay)

Sobol, Richard

TEMPI, ARIZONA, ETC... RICHARD SOBOL Two developments of this decade have been linked in a curious way . . . both the rise in Jewish cultural awareness and the acceptance of photography as an...

...The book (a National Book Award nominee) poignantly told the story of contemporary Chassidie life in America...
...Los Angeles, California...
...They show the manner in which Jewish values and cultural affectation have become integrated into the American landscape...
...If all of these sources were taken seriously one would be led to believe that the only interesting phenomenon of American Jewish life is that people still have peyot...
...These juxtapositions lend 4 vitality to American Jewish life...
...Richard Sobol is a freelance photographer based in Boston...
...Following this there was a deluge of similar material by a new group of photographers...
...Unconsciously, symbols are placed in such a manner that their original meaning expands, necessarily influenced by the surrounding environment...
...religious devotion, work and leisure were all recorded in these photographs...
...The lamily...
...These photographs were taken during the past year when as truck drivers/Jewish book peddlers, my wife and I visited 32 of these United States...
...RICHARD SOBOL Two developments of this decade have been linked in a curious way . . . both the rise in Jewish cultural awareness and the acceptance of photography as an expressive medium have led to B large number of camera swinging Jews...
...And now another book, a portfolio, and at least eight national magazines have published such photo-essays...
...They express the acceptance of life in Diaspora...
...The photos presented here are different...
...Two cultures—American, Jewish—intermingle as old (or Brooklynesque) Jewish sights are seen in a new light...
...And with that acceptance come the rewards and surprises...
...In IM70 photographs of the Chassidie communities of Brooklyn taken bv Philip Garvin were collected, given a text by Arthur A. Cohen and published in A People Apart...

Vol. 3 • January 1978 • No. 3


 
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