Invited to Life
Finding Hope After the Holocaust
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Description
A collection of 90 black-and-white portraits of Holocaust survivors accompanied by stories of their postwar lives highlighting joy, revival, and embracing life to the fullest! The survivors, many photographed with their family members, share lessons they have learned and passed on that comes from building a life of one's choosing out of the wreckage of despair.
- A beautiful cloth-bound volume that will accompany a traveling exhibition of the same name Includes essays by Dr. Mayim Bialik, Neil Gaiman, and Sabrina Orah Mark
Product Details
| Publisher | Schiffer Publishing |
| Publish Date | January 27, 2023 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780764364457 |
| Dimensions | 12.1 X 9.2 X 1.1 inches | 3.6 pounds |
About the Author
Van Sise is a 20-year veteran photojournalist whose work has been featured in major solo exhibitions at the Center for Creative Photography and the Center for Jewish History, as well as in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery. He is an Independent Book Publishers Awards gold medalist and a Prix de la Photographie Paris award winner. He lives in New York City. bavansise.com
Reviews
"[Along with] handsome and sensitive portraits...Van Sise identifies lessons for our unsettled time. Invited to Life is a compelling and memorable portrait that testifies to the strength and endurance of the human spirit." -- Maron L. Waxman, Jewish Book Council
"A truly powerful collection of images, stories, allegories and lives...Van Sise is writing with light, as if drawn by Picasso himself.
It is extremely difficult to make this look simple. The light transforms from a simple instrument and becomes representative of amusement and laughter, it is hope in the darkness, it is sunlight from an invisible window that warms and comforts. This is the stuff that moves mountains, the small action that ripples across millennia." --Cary Benbow, F-Stop Magazine
"Hefty, beautifully produced... [Van Sise] has done his job beautifully. He has been true to his intention: to show existence ongoing, life being lived." --Michael R. Caplan, White Rose Magazine
"Poignant and exquisite." -- Karen Lehrman Bloch, Jewish Journal
"Thoughtful, kind and insightful, [Invited to Life] is, at different points, hilarious, breathtaking, and gut-wrenching. It's always worth your attention." -- Sara Beth Berman, Hey Alma
"A truly powerful collection of images, stories, allegories and lives...Van Sise is writing with light, as if drawn by Picasso himself.
It is extremely difficult to make this look simple. The light transforms from a simple instrument and becomes representative of amusement and laughter, it is hope in the darkness, it is sunlight from an invisible window that warms and comforts. This is the stuff that moves mountains, the small action that ripples across millennia." --Cary Benbow, F-Stop Magazine
"Hefty, beautifully produced... [Van Sise] has done his job beautifully. He has been true to his intention: to show existence ongoing, life being lived." --Michael R. Caplan, White Rose Magazine
"Poignant and exquisite." -- Karen Lehrman Bloch, Jewish Journal
"Thoughtful, kind and insightful, [Invited to Life] is, at different points, hilarious, breathtaking, and gut-wrenching. It's always worth your attention." -- Sara Beth Berman, Hey Alma
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