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Jean Edelstein: The Disaster Series

by Betty Ann Brown, Professor of Art History, Department of Art, Cal State Northridge

It is Wednesday, June 28, 1995. I open the New York Times. There, on the front page, is a photograph of a woman. She stands in a rain-soaked street. Her left hand clutches a sheet of plastic, gathered at her shoulders to shelter her from the drenching rain. Her right hand dips a plastic bowl into the flooding gutter and pours the water into a large pan. This is how she gets water for her family. This is how she survives.

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Bosnia
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Rwanda
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Sarajevo
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Israel 95
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Sarajevo
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Rwanda 96
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Tuzla 96
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Sarajevo 95
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Herzegovina
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