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Helen Gee (curator)

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and $ 60 each (equivalent to $ 200-$ 500 in 2019), takings from the gallery sales rarely met expenses as photography was not considered a collectible art form until the 1970s. Nevertheless, the group show Great Photographs sold nearly half of its 45 pictures on exhibition. Gee took 25% commission, and sales up to the gallery's closure totalled about $ 5,000. Limelight provided many of its exhibitors with their first show, or their first show in New York. The exhibitions attracted regular reviews from John "Jack" Deschin in the
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South and Barrow Street. Limelight's 20 by 25 foot gallery space, its walls white and the floor black, was supported by a coffee shop seating 150 patrons with revenue from the sale of food and drink in a dining separated from the gallery by a red partition. With most prints selling for between $ 25
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Her marriage to Sullivan ended in divorce around this time, but Gee continued to reside and work in Greenwich Village as an independent art agent and as a dealer for both United States and international clients in prints, sculpture, and paintings, and specialising in erotic Japanese
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with an introduction by Denise Bethel (formerly Chair of Photographs and Americas, Sotheby's New York). Covering mostly her creation and running of Limelight Gallery, the book provides contemporary insights—and gossip—about the society of
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In May 1954 Gee opened New York City's first important post-war photography gallery. With initial assistance of her sister Ella and brother in-law, she took a ten-year lease at a very low $ 225 a month on a building on
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The cafĂŠ and gallery was a popular meeting place for commercial, press, freelance, magazine and street photographers of the era, not only the exhibitors, but also other big names of the period;
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Although the gallery closed in 1961 due to financial and union pressure, it had pioneered sales of photographs as art, showing the works of prominent contemporary and historic photographers.
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for commercial and advertising photographers and was able to establish herself in a good apartment and to send Li-lan to private school. Helen Gee bought a
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Having committed all her own funds to the gallery and still in debt, Gee sold and closed Limelight on January 31, 1961, after a show of the work of
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from 1954 to 1961. It was New York City's first important post-war photography gallery, pioneering sales of photographs as art.
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Helen Gee / Limelight Gallery archive, 1919-2004. AG 74. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
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Gee, Helen; University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography; International Center of Photography (1980),
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Focal encyclopedia of photography : digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science
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Limelight : a Greenwich Village photography gallery and coffeehouse in the fifties : a memoir
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exhibit, and she returned in 1986. She also visited China during April 5–26, 1976 touring with the
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of the period, into the lives and personalities of a number of important photographers including
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Cover of the 2016 Aperture edition of Helen Gee's autobiography illustrated with a portrait by
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Gee's archive of her work and records pertaining to the Limelight Gallery are located at the
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Limelight: a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties: A Memoir.
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Shamis, Bob; Kozloff, Max; Levinstein, Leon, 1910-1988; National Gallery of Canada (1995),
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DoubleVision Gallery, Los Angeles, Nabi Press Publications, New York, NY, November 2003
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https://ccp.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/finding-aid-pdfs/ag74_gee_limelight_0.pdf
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art classes through which she met, and moved in with, established modernist painter,
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Helen Gee and the Limelight : a pioneering photography gallery of the fifties
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Footlights and Spotlights:Theatrical Photographs of the American Stage, 1860- 1900
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at the suggestion of client Paul Radkai, and enrolled in photography classes with
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Limelight: a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the 1950s.
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Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991; Worswick, Clark; Atget, Eugène, 1856-1927 (2002),
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the year following Limelight's opening, and increased attention to the medium.
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Helen Gee died of pneumonia on October 10, 2004, in Manhattan, New York, N.Y.
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In her gallery Helen Gee organised and presented these sixty-one exhibitions:
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In the late 1970s, Gee worked as a photography curator, lecturer and writer.
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Helen Gee and the Limelight: The Birth of the Photography Gallery, 1954-1961
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Helen Gee and the Limelight: A Pioneering Photography Gallery of the Fifties
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Warren, B., & Gee, H. (1997). Helen Gee's Limelight: An Interview. In
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In the late 1970s, Gee worked as a photography teacher and lecturer at
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Boubat, Bernard; Boubat, Edouard, 1923-; Anhoury, Geneviève (2004),
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StourdzĂŠ, S., Gee, H., Coleman, A. D., & Levinstein, L. (2000).
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at MoMA (1955), several who were included congregated at Limelight;
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Porter, Eliot; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1979),
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and less often from "John Adam Knight" (Pierre de Rohan) in the
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Rudolph Burckhardt / George Montgomery, February 27- April 10
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In 1983, Gee was invited by Michael Spano, director of the
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Photography of the fifties : an American perspective
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on artists' output, and provides a balanced appraisal of
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Gee was born Helen Charlotte Wimmer on April 29, 1919 in
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Gee, H. (1991). 'Limelight: Remembering Gene Smith'. In
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In 1997, Gee published her autobiography, itself titled
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Carlton Gallery; Gee, Helen; Limelight Gallery (1977),
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Photography museums and galleries in the United States
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Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective,
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Norton & Company, 1576:The moment of exposure : Leon Levinstein 1414:Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography 8: 1660:Berenice Abbott : a life in photography 1639:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 1620:(1st ed.), Arena Editions, p. 38, 1597:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 1555:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 1486:Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous 1275:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 209:The latter publication held the first three 133:In the 1950s, she attended shows curated by 244:, Paul Seligman, Martin Dain, Leo Stashin, 1643:) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 1601:) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 1578:, National Gallery of Canada, p. 27, 1559:) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 1279:) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 854:Limelight Gallery and Coffeehouse, 1954-61 29: 1084:. 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Limelight Gallery and Coffeehouse
New York City, New York
Jersey City, New Jersey
WPA
Yun Gee
Edward Steichen
Museum of Modern Art
photo restorer
transparency
retouching
Rolleiflex
Alexey Brodovitch
Lisette Model
Sid Grossman
Seventh Avenue
New York Times
New York Post
New York World-Telegram
The Village Voice
Obie Awards
Diane Arbus
Philippe Halsman
Cornell Capa
Weegee
David Heath
Lee Friedlander
Harold Feinstein
Norman Rothschild
Arthur Lavine
May Mirin

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