Judy Glickman Lauder is a photographer and philanthropist. Her previous books are Both Sides of the Camera: Photographs from the Collection of Judith Ellis Glickman (2007); a book on her father’s work, For the Love of It: The Photography of Irving Bennett Ellis (2008); Upon Reflection: Photographs by Judy Ellis Glickman (2012); and Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception (Aperture, 2018). Glickman Lauder’s work is the subject of many exhibitions, including Holocaust: The Presence of the Past and Resistance and Rescue: Denmark’s Response to the Holocaust, which have been shown at more than two hundred institutions around the world. Her photographs are held in private collections and public institutions, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. In 2016, she and her husband Leonard Lauder were awarded the Gordon Parks Patron of the Arts Award. Mark Bessire is director of the Portland Museum of Art, Maine’s oldest public art institution. Previously, he was director of the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, Maine, and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art where he organized many exhibitions, including The Photography of Ike Ude and Eracism: William Pope.L. Anjuli Lebowitz is associate curator of photography at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Most recently Lebowitz worked in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where she worked on several exhibitions and catalogs, including Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work, 1940–1950 and American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams. Previously, she was a fellow in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she curated Faith and Photography: Auguste Salzmann in the Holy Land. Adam D. Weinberg is director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where he has curated exhibitions on artists, including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Richard Pousette-Dart, Isamu Noguchi, and Frank Stella. Among the artists with whom he has organized public projects are Christian Boltanski, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Lorna Simpson, and Jessica Stockholder. Under his leadership, the museum opened its Renzo Piano–designed building in the Meatpacking District.
Going through the pages of this book and seeing how Judy collects only deepens my love for the photographic medium. As a photography collector myself, I can relate to Judy's directive that the image must speak to the viewer in an emotional way-and every image within this book does just that! -Elton John