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"tombstone": "Bread Window (East Houston Street, New York City), 1948. Godfrey B. Frankel (American, 1912\u20131995). Gelatin silver print; image: 49.6 x 39 cm (19 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.); matted: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Godfrey Frankel, 1974.220",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1974",
"description": "Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).",
"opening_date": "1975-03-11T04:00:00"
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"title": "A New York Minute: Street Photography, 1920\u20131950",
"description": "A New York Minute: Street Photography, 1920\u20131950. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-November 7, 2021).",
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"description": "Godfrey Frankel focused his photographic efforts in New York City on the Lower East Side, where Jewish people from Eastern Europe predominated in the 1920s. That began to change after World War II, when an influx of Puerto Ricans and of Black people from the South made it the city\u2019s first racially integrated district. The rye breads and challahs in this mouth-watering display\u2014\u201cNone Better,\u201d says the sign\u2014demonstrate that Jewish food remained a significant presence in the neighborhood in 1948.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 170",
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"biography": "Godfrey B. Frankel American, 1912-1995 After graduating from Ohio State University in 1935 and working as a newspaperman, Godfrey Frankel (born in Cleveland) moved to Washington, D.C., in 1942 to serve as the nightclub columnist for the Washington Daily News. During the day, he explored the city by bicycle. On one of his excursions in 1943, Frankel discovered the crowded alley neighborhoods of southwest D.C. Fascinated by these hidden enclaves of the city's poor, he returned again and again with his camera to document the everyday life of the people who lived there\u2014particularly the children who played outdoors in the streets. Before long, the neighborhoods were gone, torn down by urban renewal. In 1945 Frankel documented the resettlement of Japanese-Americans uprooted during World War II for the federal War Relocation Authority program. In 1944 Frankel traveled to New York City and met Alfred Stieglitz, who encouraged his photographic work. He moved there in 1946, and that year and two years later several of his alley pictures were included in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art. He joined the Photo League and began another project: photographing Manhattan's Lower East Side. In 1950 Frankel received a master's degree in social work from Columbia University and moved to Cleveland to work in a community center. Four years later he published Short Cut to Photography, a book geared toward young people. In 1962 Frankel settled in Washington, D.C., to work as a senior consultant for the National Institute on Drug Abuse until his retirement in 1982. In 1988 he received a B.F.A. from the University of Maryland, where he had been a visiting professor of community development and organizational behavior (1980-86). Shortly after Frankel's death in 1995, the Smithsonian Institution Press published a book of his photographs, In the Alleys: Kids in the Shadow of the Capitol. M.M.",
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