photography

a rabbi in the 1930s reads books at a table

Arts & culture

Berkeley Talks: Scholars on Roman Vishniac’s photos of Jewish life before WWII

“These photographs have come to be seen as a last glimpse of a murdered population and a destroyed way of life,” said a professor of Jewish studies at a UC Berkeley event in May

a woman smiling

Arts & culture

Berkeley Talks: Portraits of power: Women of the 116th Congress

pride parade with women holding signs

Arts & culture

Activist Cathy Cade’s photos document decades of Bay Area’s lesbian community

a student on the balance beam

Campus & community

Skateboarding, gymnastics and empty libraries: Berkeley in the summer

visitors look at photos on exhibit

Library exhibit brings the West into focus, one portrait at a time

Albert Einstein by Roman Vishniac

Vanished no more: Giant of photography Roman Vishniac finds a home at The Magnes

Berkeley photographers share space with Dorothea Lange at Oakland Museum

C.V. Starr East Asian Library acquires massive and rare Chinese film studies collection

photo of boy looking out of window

Dorothea Lange fellow plans to document Cairo recyclers

‘Love, Rock and Revolution’ features legendary music photographer Jim Marshall’s work

human rights exhibit

At BAM/PFA, ‘Envisioning Human Rights’ begins with student art

Spring 2014 coming attractions: legacies of war, collaborative art, Cal Day and robots with heart

Photos, photography and the black freedom struggle

A photo of woman walking from the legs down

J School student’s SRO project garners 2001 Lange Fellowship

Roadside sign from Jim Crow south

Jim Crow signs as symbols of subjugation, trophies of triumph

‘Capturing the campus’

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