Gay Block Appears at The Jewish Museum Tonight

The Jewish Museum presents acclaimed photographer Gay Block in conversation with literary and cultural critic Daphne Merkin tonight, April 26 at 6:30 pm. Block will discuss About Love, which considers for the first time more than 30 years of her intimate and moving portraits. Organized chronologically and published in an oversize format designed to evoke the idea of a family album, About Love is the first survey of Block's work. The book provides a thorough overview of her approach to portraiture.

Tickets for this lecture, the annual Mildred and George Weissman Program, are $15, general public; $12, students and seniors; and $10, Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337. Lecture, film and concert tickets can be purchased online at the Museum's Web site.

Gay Block began taking pictures of her own affluent Jewish community in Houston and then expanded her reach to document other Jewish populations. Her landmark work, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, explores the lives of non-Jewish Europeans who risks their lives to hide Jews from the Nazis. Block's photographs are included in museums and private collections throughout the United States, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson.

Daphne Merkin has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Tablet, The New Republic and The New Leader.

An infrared assistive listening system for the hearing impaired is available for programs in the Museum's S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Auditorium.

The Mildred and George Weissman Program has been endowed by Paul, Ellen, and Dan Weissman in honor of their parents.

Public Programs at The Jewish Museum are supported, in part, by public funds from by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Major annual support is provided from public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. The stage lighting has been funded by the Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer. The audio-visual system has been funded by former New York State Assembly Member Jonathan Bing.