Frederic Brenner Installation, Ellis Island. created against the backdrop of the New York City skyline,

Frederic Brenner )b. 1959(
Installation, Ellis Island, 1996 Museum collection

Frederic Brenner
Installation, Ellis Island. created against the backdrop of the New York City skyline, New York, USA, 1996
The installation consists of framed portraits of prominent Jewish Americans.
Bottom row, left to right: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Itzhak Perlman, violinist, Steven Spielberg, film director and producer, Walter Annenberg, philanthropist, Philip Roth, writer, Lauren Bacall, actress
Middle row, left to right: Dustin Hoffman, actor, Estée Lauder, businesswoman, Kirk Douglas (above), actor, Michael Milken (below), financier, Allen Ginsberg, poet, Ralph Lauren, designer, Neil Simon (above), playwright, Meyer Schapiro (below), art historian, Richard Avedon, photographer
Top row, left to right: Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., Charles R. Bronfman, Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., business and community leaders, George Burns, comedian, Henry A. Kissinger, diplomat
Bottom row, left to right: Isaac Stern, musician, Michael S. Ovitz, businessman, Betty Friedan, feminist writer, Philip Glass, composer, Milton Berle, comedian, Dr. Jonas Salk, physician and scientist, Norman Mailer, writer, Billy Wilder, film director, Mark Spitz, swimmer
Middle row, left to right: Milton Friedman, economist, Carl Sagan, scientist, Saul Bellow, writer, Edward I. Koch, public official, Barbra Streisand, singer, actress and director, Elie Wiesel, writer and Nobel Laureate, Richard Serra, sculptor, Arthur Miller, playwright
Top row, left to right: Roy Lichtenstein, artist, Jerry Lewis, comedian, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, newspaper publisher, Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, sexologist

Must Know

This image is a part of a larger instillation project called Diaspora: Homelands in Exile 1978 – 2003 by artist Frederic Brenner. The installation was made to chronicle and honour Jewish legacy and communities around the world.

French Frederic Brenner is an artist whose approach to installation comes from his academic background as an anthropologist and ethnologist. Predominently using photograph to document communities and explore identity, Brenner has exhibited his photographs around the world. he was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Visual Arts for his work Diaspora: Homelands in Exile in 2004.

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