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ADMISSION: Private Member Event; RSVP required by March 7
Members are invited to join Executive Director Lori Starr and the Board of Trustees of The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) to celebrate the opening of Predicting the Past: Zohar Studios, The Lost Years.
5–9pm
Light refreshments will be served in the Blue Cube
6:30pm
Discussion with artist Stephen Berkman
Limited seating; RSVP required by March 7. Email rsvp@thecjm.org or call 415.655.7837.
Questions? Please contact rsvp@thecjm.org or call 415.655.7837.
Invitations are non-transferable.
Los Angeles–based artist Stephen Berkman’s immersive photography installation is a tribute to Shimmel Zohar, a nineteenth-century Jewish immigrant, photographer, and founder of the enigmatic Zohar Studios in New York City. The exhibition includes over thirty photographs, several large installations, a cabinet of curiosities, and an artist book about the Zohar project. These uncanny photographs take the visual codes of nineteenth-century portraiture as their point of departure, and the images and objects address both Jewish life and the state of scientific understanding over 150 years ago.
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Predicting the Past: Zohar Studios, The Lost Years is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum. Leadership support is generously provided by Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt, The Bernard Osher Foundation, and the John Pritzker Family Fund. Major support is provided by Joyce B. Linker and Dorothy R. Saxe.
Media Sponsorship is provided by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Stephen Berkman, Conjoined Twins (detail), undated. Albumen print, 11x 14 in.