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Current and coming: Changing lenses at the Jewish Museum
Mason Klein
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The story of the exhibition
Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine starts in Weimar-era Germany, where the emerging field of graphic design was developing throughout the 1920s at the Bauhaus school. Numerous artists and designers of the German avant-garde were Jewish. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, their opposition to modernist art and persecution of its practitioners drove a generation of photographers and artists to immigrate to the United States. There they found a robust mass media exemplified, in an era before television, by large-circulation magazines, such as ....

New York , United States , Rochester Institute Of Technology , Jewish Museum , Nan Martin , Ellen Auerbach , Lillian Bassman , Mason Klein , Alexey Brodovitch , Paul Rand , Saul Leiter , Frances Mclaughlin Gill , Gordon Parks , Will Burtin , Lizzie Himmel , Helen Frankenthaler , Suzy Parker , Alexander Liberman , Joseph Breitenbach , Yaye Breitebach Charitable Foundation , Saul Leiter Foundation , Gordon Parks Foundation , Goldsmith Foundation , Horacew Goldsmith Foundation , Street Scene , First Avenue ,