My eyes were fresh

"Profile of an artist who made an important contribution to the history of modern photography. It is film about a photographer and educator whose art and life forged a link between the European modernism of the early twentieth century and the burgeoning artistic culture of the San Francisco Bay Area in the second half of the century. But even more, it is a portrait of the development of a unique artistic sensibility, born out of the distinctive milieu of modern German-Jewish culture in Breslau and Berlin and shaped by the politics, the popular culture, and the emerging native modernism of the United States"--Container insert.