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Helen Gee died October 10 in a Manhattan hospice. She was 85.

For those of you not familiar with the person or the name, in 1954, Helen Gee opened the first important post-war photography gallery called the Limelight on Barrow Street, in the Greenwich Village area of New York City.

At the time, photographers where abundant, but no one was buying photographs. She was one of the first to create a place to exhibit photographs, as well as a place for photographers to meet and discuss photography. The gallery was part of a coffee shop which became a hangout for actors and artists and helped establish photography as marketable fine art.

She exhibited works of Robert Frank, Lisette Model, and Edward Weston and many other great photographers of the time.

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Portraits of an Age: Photography in Germany and Austria, 1900 -- 1938

March 11 -- June 6, 2005

Over four decades of portrait photography in Germany and Austria by more than 35 photographers of diverse range and style.

Neue Galerie
1048 Fifth Avenue @ 86th Street
New York, NY 10028

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March 11 -- June 5, 2005

Larry Clark became famous for his depictions of drug use and adolescent sexual activity in his book Tulsa (1971). His retrospective includes over 200 photographs and several of his feature films, e.g., Kids (1995), and Ken Park (2002).

ICP
1133 Avenue of the Americas @ 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036

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Humphrey Spender, an English photographer who photographed poverty and unemployment in Britain's cities died on March 11.

He first studied architecture before turning to photography. He worked for the magazine "Picture Post" under the nickname "Lensman". Picture Post, a magazine that pioneered photojournalism, was first published in the UK in 1938.

Spender was a member of the "Mass Observation" movement, taking photos of daily life in working-class communities in Britain. Taken between 1937 and 1940, his most well known photographs are of the "Worktown Study". Worktown was the Mass Observationist's codename for Bolton. Much of the time, Spender worked surruptitiously, keeping his Leica M under his coat.

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The Metropolitan Museum has acquired the Gilman Paper Company Collection of photographs which is considered to be the most important photography collection in the world.

Photos from the collection will be on exhibit for a year starting April 17, 2006.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
March 8, 2005–May 30, 2005
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor

In addition to previously unpublished photographs and writings, this show presents some of her signature images such as the "Child with a toy hand grenage in Central Park, NYC (1962).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028-0198

http://www.metmuseum.org

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The New York Times has a new column called "Lens" which will feature unique sights of New York City. It's debut (March 9) will feature the photography of Sylvia Plachy, formerly of the Unguided Tour column in the Village Voice.

Vintage New York by Sylvia Plachy

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The New York Public Library's collection of photographs are online. You can browse by name, keyword, or collection and spend hours and days searching their photography collection.

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

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