Life in Two Worlds Influences a Photographer's Art.

If outsider status were the sole prerequisite for artistic success, Anna Shteynshleyger would be the most important artist of her time. As it is, she is not doing too badly: she is a rising star in the elite world of contemporary art photography. Ms. Shteynshleyger's life has been largely defined by her separateness: as an immigrant in America, a religious Jew in the art world, a single parent in the Orthodox Jewish community. She has adapted by becoming a keen observer -- the quintessential voyeur, whose photographs, some of which are on display at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, reflect both a cool detachment and a quiet yearning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]