Kafka's Apartment

Adventure Takes a Turn, 2013. Rachel Bess. Oil on panel.

Hitler's earliest victims were political rivals, including Communists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists, who were jailed without trial in early concentration camps like Dachau. Marked with red triangles, they faced brutal treatment aimed at crushing organized resistance. To suppress dissent and control culture, Hitler also rounded up artists, writers and intellectuals.

TWA Terminal at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport, Eero Saarinen, New York, NY, 1962. Ezra Stoller. Chromogenic print.

Fifth Avenue at Twilight, c. 1909. Birge Harrison. Oil on canvas.

J.P. Clark House, 1947. Julius Shulman. Gelatin silver.

Ingrid Bergman, c. 1930s. Ernest Bachrach. Gelatin silver.

Flight over New York at Twilight, 1935-36. Lorser Feitelson. Oil on canvas.

Ballet Class, London, 1931. Alfred Eisenstaedt. Gelatin silver.

“It serves as a visual metaphor for humanity's false sense of control over the environment and a reminder of nature's raw power.”

Matisse drawing some branches, 1939. Brassaï. Silver gelatin print.

In 1916: Poverty was a massive, structural baseline rather than a measurable safety-net exception. Economic historians estimate that in the early 20th century, upward of 50% to 60% of the population lived at or below subsistence levels. There was no federal minimum wage, no food stamps, no unemployment insurance, and no widespread Social Security.

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Cape Light, Peaches, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1983. Joel Meyerowitz. Pigment print.

Freedom Now, ”Summer of '64”, 1964. Steve Schapiro. Silver gelatin

Shelter on Montmartre, 1884-88. Vincent van Gogh. Oil on canvas.

Katharine Hepburn, 1935. Ernest Bachrach. Gelatin silver.