Monday, July 27, 2020

Step into an Imaginary Photography Studio From the 1850s


Predicting the Past—Zohar Studios: The Lost Years by photographer Stephen Berkman presents the colorful cast of characters in attendance at the mythical Zohar Studios, a 19th-century Lower East Side photographic establishment of the eponymous Shimmel Zohar — an Eastern European Jewish immigrant who came to the United States in the 1850s. The images possess an archaic quality that is beautiful and strangely unsettling.


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