Sylvia Plachy
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Sylvia Plachy (born 1943) is a Hungarian/American photographer.
Plachy was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her Jewish mother was in hiding in fear of Nazi persecution during World War II.[1]
Plachy's photo-essays and portraits have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, Granta, Art Forum, Fortune, and other publications. They have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Berlin, Paris, Budapest, and Tokyo.
Sylvia's most recent book, Self Portrait with Cows Going Home, a personal history of Central Europe with photographs and text, received a Golden Light award for best book in 2004. Her first book, Unguided Tour, won ICP's Infinity Award for best publication in 1990.
Her other books are Red Light (1996) and Signs & Relics (2000). Plachy has been honored with a Guggenheim fellowship and a Lucie award. She has taught and lectured widely.
Plachy lives in New York City and is the mother of Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody.
