Friday, October 12, 2007

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER AND THE LOWER EAST SIDE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRUCE DAVIDSON

Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson includes 40 intimate and moving photos spanning the years 1957 to 1990.

Included are selections from Davidson’s Garden Cafeteria portfolio; his portraits of the author and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), the most revered Yiddish writer of the twentieth century; and a series of photographs of Lower East Side residents.

Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson was organized by the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts.

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