דער קערפער פֿון השם“I have to tell you,” #BillAron told me as he walked around The World In Front of Me, a retrospective of his #photography at the #American #Jewish Historical Society, “my photography allowed me to walk into rooms I might never have otherwise walked into.”
We had just looked at some of his work documenting #Jews on the #LowerEastSide of #Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s: a #sofer bent over a #Torah scroll, a glowering #rabbi with imposing eyebrows, a #Hasidic wedding in the #Bobover movement. Each #photo begat the next; when he showed a reticent subject the results of his #film, they would invite him back to take more.
Aron has become known for his work documenting Jewish communities around the world — his first book, From the Corners of the Earth, shows Jewish life in #NewYork, #LosAngeles, #Cuba and the then-#Soviet Union. His next, Shalom Y’all, was the result of a decade spent in the lesser-known Jewish communities of the American #South.
His images are joyous..."
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He documented a changing Jewish world, and the Jewish world changed him
“I have to tell you,” Bill Aron told me as he walked around The World In Front of Me, a retrospective of his photography at the American Jewish Historical Society, “my photography allowed me to walk into rooms I might never have otherwise walked into.” We had just looked at some of his work documenting Jews...