Word: tasseling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Noting that he has witnessed other changes in the land during his own travels. Tassel says his work is part of a continuum: his "now" pictures will eventually become "then" pictures for other photo-historians...
...ravages of war have completely altered other sites of historical interest, obliterating ancient landmarks such as Jerusalem's Hurva Synagogue. The temple was the subject of an 1867 photograph, but only a reconstructed arch can be seen in Tassel's counterpart...
Rosovsky, who helped Tassel throughout the project, describes the amateur photographer as a perfectionist. "He made three journeys to Israel--all on his own time and with his own money--to capture the same feeling in his photographs as in those taken a century before," she adds...
After collecting thousands of feet of film, Tassel processed the photographs in the darkroom of his Lexington, Mass., home. The portfolio is still evolving. "I don't know if it'll ever end," Tassel says...
Despite the expansion of its collections, the museum experienced a general decline after Eliot's death in 1926. His successor, A. Lawrence Lowell, displayed a general coolness toward the museum and refused to provide any funding beyond what was necessary for maintenance, said Janet Tassel, an historian of the museum and life of photographer Daniel Tassel...