Area Attractions: Jewish Museum of Florida FIU New Exhibit

The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU presents Ruth Gruber: Photojournalist. Headlining Art Basel season in Miami Beach, the new exhibition (on view Oct. 16 - Jan. 7) celebrates the remarkable life, vision, and heroic tenacity of this twentieth-century pioneer and trailblazer, and this is the show's southeastern U.S. premiere. Once the world’s youngest PhD, Ruth Gruber passed away recently at the age of 105. The show features more than 60 photographs including gelatin silver prints plus an archival trove of personal letters, telegrams, printed magazines, and assorted ephemera documenting the artist’s career. The photographs in this exhibition span more than fifty years, from Gruber’s groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s.