Self Portrait as Naftuli Goldszajn, Rafael Goldchain, C-print, 2000, on view at the Center for Photography at Woodstock in the group show "Family Album," June 24-August 20.
Self Portrait as Naftuli Goldszajn is taken from Goldchain's autobiographical series "Familial Ground," in which he created digitally altered self-portraits wherein he posed as his dead ancestors, predominantly Eastern European Jews of the pre-Holocaust era. Goldchain's avowed goal was not only to retrieve basic genealogical information about his family by researching these images, but to be able to create a living familial and cultural inheritance that he could pass on to his son. (845) 679-9957;
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