Helen Gee: Limelight, a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties

by Helen Gee, Denise Bethel (Introduction)

Overview

In the late 1950s, the Limelight gallery and coffeehouse was the intellectual hangout of Greenwich Village, drawing patrons and critics with the work of such figures as Minor White, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Brassaï, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Robert Frank. When Limelight opened in 1954, it was the first commercial gallery in the U.S. devoted exclusively to photography. Limelight: A Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties is the humorous and at times heartbreaking memoir of founder Helen Gee. Aperture is pleased to reissue it and make it newly available as an e-book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597113687
Publisher:	Aperture Foundation
Publication date:	02/08/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Helen Gee (1919–2004) was an American photography gallery owner, co-owner of the Limelight in New York City, New York from 1954 to 1961. It was New York City's first important post-war photography gallery, pioneering sales of photographs as art. In the late 1970s, Gee worked as a photography curator, lecturer, and writer.