The Satmar Hasidim in just discovered York.

The Satmar Hasidim in just discovered York, by Maud B. Weiss and Michel Neumeister. Gina Kehayoff, Munich/135 pp/ price unavailable (hb) With an informative historical and cultural theme by Indiana University Professor Jerome R Mintz, German photojournalists Weiss and Neumeister not away a portrait of New York City's flourishing Hasidic communities. Hasidic families have maintained a way of life dictated on tradition and faith that present the appearances anachronistic in the midst of the city's rapid pace and ever-changing environment. However, while refusing to go on along with the rush of modernity, they must convenient the inherent demands of surviving within it. Weiss and Neumeister's richly reproduc black and white images effectively portray this ongoing writhe as does Mintz's text. No mention is made of the precise nature of the collaboration between the sum of two units photographers, an oversight that could have made the main division more engaging from a photographer's standpoint nevertheless there is no specific attribution of each image. The captions are simp le descriptions, an simple body of the book that hints it belongs to a lengthy line of photojournalistic documentary concocts where the strength lies in readers' fascination with the enthrall rather than with the presentation of the artist or, in this case, artists.

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