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Architects Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman and Daniel Liebeskind; Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel and poet Allen Ginsberg; directors Woody Allen, Billy Wilder and Milos Forman; photographer Arnold Newman; artists Leon Golub and Roy Lichtenstein; fashion designer Calvin Klein and musician Leonard Cohen are among the subjects who speak to the viewer in symbolic ways — sometimes humorous, always unexpected. In one photograph, taken after a rainy night in Florida, the late Isaac Bashevis Singer hovers like an appari- tion in Miami Beach, his face shaded in sunglasses, his body shaded by an umbrella, Rorshach-like blots on the wall behind him. "The rain stains on the wall vaguely refer to a golem — a mythic creature in Yiddish folklore that plays a role in many of Singer's stories," says Frajndlich of this portrait. "Each subject, each stranger becomes a seduction," says Frajndlich of his impressive gallery of icons. 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CANDLE #6: FOR THE ART AFICIONADO Although Meyer Schapiro is known primarily as an influential art critic and art historian, he was also an artist in his own right. The creative world of this Renaissance man is revealed in Meyer