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Shelley Gazin Archive
Shelley Gazin Archive
13455 Maxella Ave, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
LOS ANGELES & ENVIRONS, CA. 90292
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Telephone/by appointment/email
Management
Cross-section of Los Angeles' urban population, immigration and events including portraits of creative pofessionals, entrepreneurs, scientists, political and religious leaders,.
Persian Americans
Selections from Becoming Persian: Illuminating the Iranian-Jewish Community / Photographs and Text Threads by Shelley Gazin [1999-2013] chronicles the adaptation of, and contributions to, civic life, ritual practice and local business by Los Angeles’ Persian-Jews, having immigrated to the United States primarily as a result of the Iranian Revolution of 1980.
Selections from Becoming Persian: Illuminating the Iranian-Jewish Community / Photographs and Text Threads by Shelley Gazin
With support from California Council for the Humanities/Documentary Project; Righteous Persons Foundation; The Durfee Foundation [ARC Grant]; Center for Jewish Creativity; Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York; Center for Iranian-Jewish Culture; 30 Years After; Yomtoubian Foundation; UCLA Hillel/Dortort Center for Creativity; Jeannette Krown Trust.
