about One Family /
You might think you are looking at a collection of photographs, but in fact you are reading a novel, the history of one family, a human landscape in black and white that stretches across four generations. Not the black and white of good and evil, not a black and white that exemplifies the souls […]
Forward /
The more I delved into Vardi Kahana’s “One Family,” the more I was reminded of my formative exhibition of photography, “The Family of Man.” Organized in 1955 by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, it was curated by photographer Edward Steichen, and featured a comprehensive book with a prologue by poet Carl Sandburg. The […]
We Come from the Number /
In order to avoid the assignment of excessively high numbers from the general series to the large number of Hungarian Jews arriving in 1944, the SS authorities introduced new sequences of numbers in mid-May 1944. This series, prefaced by the letter A, began with “1” and ended at “20,000.” Once the number 20,000 was reached, […]
Photo-Genealogy /
What is Left to Ponder The diversity and variance among the individuals comprising Vardi Kahana’s family are not only the basis for a fascinating documentary journey spanning four generations, three continents, and some fifty families which make up one dynasty and multiple histories; they also open a door to an engaging dialogue with various […]
