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Edward Serotta
American, born 1949
Hanukkah dance in Budapest's Gellert Hotel,
December 1989, from the series "In a Timeless
Place: Central Europe and its Jews," 1986-1990
Gelatin silver print
Gift of the Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen
Collection, 1995.91.3
Since the mid-1980s, Edward Serotta has traveled to
eastern Europe to record the survivors of the Jewish
communities decimated by the Holocaust and
Communist oppression. He has said, "I grew up [as
a Jew] in the American South in the '50s, so I know
what is means to be an outsider."
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