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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Helen Gee</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1919-04-29</span>)</span>April 29, 1919<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace">Jersey City, New Jersey, NJ</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">October 10, 2004<span style="display:none">(2004-10-10)</span> (aged 85)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Manhattan, New York, NY</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Photographer, Curator, Lecturer, Writer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Limelight Gallery</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Helen Gee</b> (1919–2004) was an American photography gallery owner, co-owner of the Limelight in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City, New York</a> from 1954 to 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VV_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VV-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was New York City's first important post-war photography gallery, pioneering sales of photographs as art. </p><p>In the late 1970s, Gee worked as a photography curator, lecturer and writer. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_work">Life and work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gee was born Helen Charlotte Wimmer on April 29, 1919<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City, New Jersey</a>, to father Peter who had been trained as a church decorator before he migrated from Austro-Hungary. Gee's mother Marie (née Ludwig) died during her infancy, and her widower brought up Helen and her older siblings Ella and Henry alone. Rebelling against her father's new wife who had Nazi sympathies,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at fifteen she moved to New York City to finish high school and enrol in <a href="/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration" title="Works Progress Administration">WPA</a> art classes through which she met, and moved in with, established modernist painter, <a href="/wiki/Yun_Gee" title="Yun Gee">Yun Gee</a> (1906-1963).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LAT_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LAT-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They married seven years later in 1942 and had a daughter, artist Li-lan in 1943,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and were subsequently divorced in 1947<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LAT_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LAT-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after Yun Gee's incarceration due to his mental illness.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She later married Kevin Sullivan, but that ended in divorce.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1950s, she attended shows curated by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Steichen" title="Edward Steichen">Edward Steichen</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art</a>, which inspired her interest in photography.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After finding work as a <a href="/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_photographs" title="Conservation and restoration of photographs">photo restorer</a> in the late 1940s,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gee taught herself specialist <a href="/wiki/Reversal_film" title="Reversal film">transparency</a> <a href="/wiki/Photo_manipulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Photo manipulation">retouching</a> for commercial and advertising photographers and was able to establish herself in a good apartment and to send Li-lan to private school.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Helen Gee bought a <a href="/wiki/Rolleiflex" title="Rolleiflex">Rolleiflex</a> at the suggestion of client Paul Radkai,<sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and enrolled in photography classes with <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Brodovitch" title="Alexey Brodovitch">Alexey Brodovitch</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Lisette_Model" title="Lisette Model">Lisette Model</a> and finally <a href="/wiki/Sid_Grossman" title="Sid Grossman">Sid Grossman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With that experience she decided to open a gallery instead of becoming a photographer, and with her own finance she founded and managed the Limelight Gallery in 1954,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1956 she traveled briefly to Spain and France with Li-lan after the two had won a television competition.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Limelight_Gallery_1954-61">Limelight Gallery 1954-61</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Limelight Gallery 1954-61"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 1954 Gee opened New York City's first important post-war photography gallery.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With initial assistance of her sister Ella and brother in-law,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> she took a ten-year lease at a very low $225 a month on a building on <a href="/wiki/Seventh_Avenue_(Manhattan)" title="Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)">Seventh Avenue</a> South and Barrow Street.<sup id="cite_ref-VV_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VV-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Limelight's 20 by 25 foot gallery space, its walls white and the floor black,<sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With most prints selling for between $25 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.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, the group show Great Photographs sold nearly half of its 45 pictures on exhibition.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gee took 25% commission, and sales up to the gallery's closure totalled about $5,000.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">New York Times</a>,</i> and less often from "John Adam Knight" (Pierre de Rohan) in the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post">New York Post</a>,</i> Mabel Scacheri of the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_World-Telegram" title="New York World-Telegram">New York World-Telegram</a></i> and George Wright in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">The Village Voice</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The latter publication held the first three <a href="/wiki/Obie_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Obie Awards">Obie Awards</a> ceremonies in the café.<sup id="cite_ref-VV_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VV-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The café 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; <a href="/wiki/Diane_Arbus" title="Diane Arbus">Diane Arbus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Philippe_Halsman" title="Philippe Halsman">Philippe Halsman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cornell_Capa" title="Cornell Capa">Cornell Capa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weegee" title="Weegee">Weegee</a> (whom Gee banned),<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lew Parrella, Morris Jaffe, Jerry Danzig, <a href="/wiki/David_Heath_(journalist)" title="David Heath (journalist)">David Heath</a>, Suzy Harris, <a href="/wiki/Lee_Friedlander" title="Lee Friedlander">Lee Friedlander</a>, Sid Kaplan, John Cohen, Morris Engel, Walt Silver, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Feinstein" title="Harold Feinstein">Harold Feinstein</a>, Paul Seligman, Martin Dain, Leo Stashin, <a href="/wiki/Norman_Rothschild" title="Norman Rothschild">Norman Rothschild</a>,  and Victor Obsatz. During the showing of <i>The Family of Man</i> at MoMA (1955), several who were included congregated at Limelight; <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Lavine" title="Arthur Lavine">Arthur Lavine</a>, <a href="/wiki/May_Mirin" title="May Mirin">May Mirin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hella_Hammid" title="Hella Hammid">Hella Hammid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Simpson_Kalisher" title="Simpson Kalisher">Simpson Kalisher</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Jacobs_(photographer)" title="Raymond Jacobs (photographer)">Ray Jacobs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Orkin" title="Ruth Orkin">Ruth Orkin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Wallowitch" title="Edward Wallowitch">Ed Wallowitch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the gallery closed in 1961 due to financial and union pressure,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it had pioneered sales of photographs as art, showing the works of prominent contemporary and historic photographers.<sup id="cite_ref-VV_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VV-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Limelight_exhibition_chronology">Limelight exhibition chronology  </h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Limelight exhibition chronology "><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In her gallery Helen Gee organised and presented these sixty-one exhibitions:<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1954">1954</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1954"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Joseph Breitenbach, <i>Korea</i>, May 13- June 27</li> <li>Rudolph Burckhardt, June 29- August 15</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Stettner" title="Louis Stettner">Louis Stettner</a>, August 17- September 27</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minor_White" title="Minor White">Minor White</a>, September 28- November 3</li> <li>Grant La Farge, <i>New England in the 1890s</i>, November 6–30</li> <li><i>Great Photographs: <a href="/wiki/Berenice_Abbott" title="Berenice Abbott">Berenice Abbott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ansel_Adams" title="Ansel Adams">Ansel Adams</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Boubat" title="Édouard Boubat">Edouard Boubat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Brandt" title="Bill Brandt">Bill Brandt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brassa%C3%AF" title="Brassaï">Brassaï</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manuel_%C3%81lvarez_Bravo" title="Manuel Álvarez Bravo">Manuel Álvarez Bravo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harry_Callahan_(photographer)" title="Harry Callahan (photographer)">Harry Callahan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Imogen_Cunningham" title="Imogen Cunningham">Imogen Cunningham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Doisneau" title="Robert Doisneau">Robert Doisneau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Frank" title="Robert Frank">Robert Frank</a>, <a href="/wiki/Izis_Bidermanas" title="Izis Bidermanas">Izis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lisette_Model" title="Lisette Model">Lisette Model</a>, Gotthard Schuh, <a href="/wiki/W._Eugene_Smith" title="W. Eugene Smith">W. Eugene Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Strand" title="Paul Strand">Paul Strand</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jakob_Tuggener" title="Jakob Tuggener">Jakob Tuggener</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sabine_Weiss_(photographer)" title="Sabine Weiss (photographer)">Sabine Weiss</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Weston" title="Edward Weston">Edward Weston</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Minor_White" title="Minor White">Minor White</a>,</i> December 1–30</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1955">1955</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1955"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Vestal" title="David Vestal">David Vestal</a>, January 3-February 14</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Newman" title="Arnold Newman">Arnold Newman</a>, February 15-March 19</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliot_Porter" title="Eliot Porter">Eliot Porter</a>, March 21-April 17<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz" title="Alfred Stieglitz">Alfred Stieglitz</a> / <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Norman" title="Dorothy Norman">Dorothy Norman</a>, <i>Portraits of Each Other</i>, April 19-May 7</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Weiner" title="Dan Weiner">Dan Weiner</a>, <i>Italy</i>, May 10- June 7</li> <li>Suzy Harris, June 10- July 25</li> <li>Group show: <i>Fourteen Photographers</i>, July 28- September 2</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wynn_Bullock" title="Wynn Bullock">Wynn Bullock</a>, September 5- October 8</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Moholy-Nagy" title="László Moholy-Nagy">Laszlo Moholy-Nagy</a>, October 11-November 19</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Boubat" title="Édouard Boubat">Édouard Boubat</a>, November 22- December 31<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1956">1956</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1956"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Levinstein" title="Leon Levinstein">Leon Levinstein</a>, <i>New York</i>, January 3-February 11<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ansel_Adams" title="Ansel Adams">Ansel Adams</a>, February 14-March 31</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esther_Bubley" title="Esther Bubley">Esther Bubley</a>, April 3-May 5</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imogen_Cunningham" title="Imogen Cunningham">Imogen Cunningham</a>, May 8-June 25</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabine_Weiss_(photographer)" title="Sabine Weiss (photographer)">Sabine Weiss</a>, June 28-July 29</li> <li><i>Footlights and Spotlights:Theatrical Photographs of the American Stage, 1860- 1900</i>, loan exhibition from <a href="/wiki/George_Eastman_Museum" title="George Eastman Museum">George Eastman House</a>, August 1- September 19</li> <li>Ken Heyman, September 21-October 28</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Weiner" title="Dan Weiner">Dan Weiner</a>, <i>South Africa</i>, October 30-December 2</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Atget" title="Eugène Atget">Eugène Atget</a>, December 4-January 6<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1957">1957</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1957"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Izis_Bidermanas" title="Izis Bidermanas">Izis</a>, January 8-February 17</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Paulin" title="Frank Paulin">Frank Paulin</a>, February 19- April 2</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eliot_Porter" title="Eliot Porter">Eliot Porter</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Auerbach" title="Ellen Auerbach">Ellen Auerbach</a>, <i>Madonnas and Marketplaces</i>, April 4-May 19</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliott_Erwitt" title="Elliott Erwitt">Elliott Erwitt</a>, May 24-July 7</li> <li>Morris H. Jaffe, July 9-August 18</li> <li><i>Lyrical and Accurate</i>, loan exhibition from George Eastman House, designed by Minor White, August 20- September 28</li> <li><a href="/wiki/W._Eugene_Smith" title="W. Eugene Smith">W. Eugene Smith</a>, October I- November 10</li> <li>John Cohen, <i>Peru</i>, November 12-December 15</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berenice_Abbott" title="Berenice Abbott">Berenice Abbott</a>, <i>Portraits of the Twenties</i>, December 17- January 26<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1958">1958</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1958"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Seymour_(photographer)" title="David Seymour (photographer)">David ["Chim"] Seymour</a>, <i>Chirn's Children</i>, January 28- February 25</li> <li>Rudolph Burckhardt / George Montgomery, February 27- April 10</li> <li>Ken Heyman, <i>Bali, Japan, Hong Kong,</i> April 12- May 25</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bert_Stern" title="Bert Stern">Bert Stern</a>, May 27-July 20</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Karales" title="James Karales">James Karales</a>, <i>Rendville, USA</i>, July 24- August 31</li> <li>Group show, September 3–30</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Feinstein" title="Harold Feinstein">Harold Feinstein</a>, October 2-November 15</li> <li>Gerda Peterich, <i>Dance Portraits</i> November 18- December 31</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1959">1959</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1959"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Doisneau" title="Robert Doisneau">Robert Doisneau</a>, January 5-February 28</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Lapow" title="Harry Lapow">Harry Lapow</a>, March 3-April 12</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Weiner" title="Dan Weiner">Dan Weiner</a>, <i>Russia and Eastern Europe</i>, April 14-May 12</li> <li><i>The History of Photography</i>, loan exhibition from George Eastman House, May 15-June 30</li> <li>Group show: <i>Seven Europeans,</i> July 2- August 13</li> <li>Group show: <i>Images of Love</i>, August 15-September 30</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brassa%C3%AF" title="Brassaï">Brassaï</a>, <i>The Eye of Paris</i>, October 5–31</li> <li>Group show, November 2- December 13</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Faurer" title="Louis Faurer">Louis Faurer</a>, December 15-January 18</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1960-1">1960-1</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1960-1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Photographs by Professors: Lou Block, <a href="/wiki/Van_Deren_Coke" title="Van Deren Coke">Van Deren Coke</a>, Allen Downs, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Rosenblum" title="Walter Rosenblum">Walter Rosenblum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Siskind" title="Aaron Siskind">Aaron Siskind</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Holmes_Smith" title="Henry Holmes Smith">Henry Holmes Smith</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Minor_White" title="Minor White">Minor White</a></i>, January 19-February 29</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hattersley" title="Ralph Hattersley">Ralph Hattersley</a>, March 1–27</li> <li>Jerry Liebling, April 1-May 15</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Weston" title="Edward Weston">Edward Weston</a>, May 17-June 26</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Parks" title="Gordon Parks">Gordon Parks</a>, June 28-August 7</li> <li>Jack Smith, August 9-September 11</li> <li>Group show, September 13-October 16</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudia_Andujar" title="Claudia Andujar">Claudia Andujar</a>, October 18-Novernber 8</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Caponigro" title="Paul Caponigro">Paul Caponigro</a> / Minor White, November 10-December 14</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron" title="Julia Margaret Cameron">Julia Margaret Cameron</a>, December 16, 1960 – January 31, 1961</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Exhibitions_about_Limelight">Exhibitions about Limelight</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Exhibitions about Limelight"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1977 <i>Helen Gee and the Limelight: A Pioneering Photography Gallery of the Fifties</i>, Carlton Gallery, New York, February 12-March 8, 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2001 <i>Helen Gee and the Limelight: The Birth of the Photography Gallery, 1954-1961</i> Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago.</li> <li>2007 <i>Limelight Gallery and Coffeehouse, 1954-61</i>, Triple Candie Gallery, 500 West 148th Street, New York, New York, Feb 8 - March 18, 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cover_Helen_Gee_Limelight.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3c/Cover_Helen_Gee_Limelight.jpg/220px-Cover_Helen_Gee_Limelight.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Cover_Helen_Gee_Limelight.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="273" data-file-height="364" /></a><figcaption>Cover of the 2016 Aperture edition of Helen Gee's autobiography illustrated with a portrait by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Lavine" title="Arthur Lavine">Arthur Lavine</a> of Gee on her way to the opening of her gallery.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Limelight:_A_Memoir"><i>Limelight: A Memoir</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Limelight: A Memoir"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1997, Gee published her autobiography, itself titled <i>Limelight: A Memoir</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VV_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VV-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reissued in 2016 by <i><a href="/wiki/Aperture_(magazine)" title="Aperture (magazine)">Aperture</a></i> 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 <a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Village" title="Greenwich Village">Greenwich Village</a> of the period, into the lives and personalities of a number of important photographers including <a href="/wiki/Lisette_Model" title="Lisette Model">Lisette Model</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Frank" title="Robert Frank">Robert Frank</a>, notes the effect of <a href="/wiki/McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a> on artists' output,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and provides a balanced appraisal of <a href="/wiki/Edward_Steichen" title="Edward Steichen">Edward Steichen</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Family_of_Man" title="The Family of Man">The Family of Man</a></i> which launched at the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art</a> the year following Limelight's opening, and increased attention to the medium. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gee married <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> professor, Kevin Sullivan, in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having committed all her own funds to the gallery and still in debt,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_4-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gee sold and closed Limelight on January 31, 1961, after a show of the work of <a href="/wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron" title="Julia Margaret Cameron">Julia Margaret Cameron</a>. The new owners continued showing photographs for a short period and, failing to attract reviews, soon discontinued them and in turn sold up in less than a year. </p><p>Her marriage to Sullivan ended in divorce around this time,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Shunga" title="Shunga">Shunga</a> prints.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>  </p><p>From May 3–31, 1969 she made a trip to <a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a>, Japan. In 1969 she sponsored a Vietnamese foster child, Nguyen Thi My Le through the <a href="/wiki/Plan_International" title="Plan International">Foster Parents Plan Inc.</a>, with whom she corresponded until 1972, the letters being translated by the organisation.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She again visited Japan in 1975 as a guest of <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Shimbun" title="Tokyo Shimbun">Tokyo Shimbun</a>, a newspaper that sponsored the <a href="/wiki/Yasuo_Kuniyoshi" title="Yasuo Kuniyoshi">Yasuo Kuniyoshi</a> exhibit, and she returned in 1986. She also visited China during April 5–26, 1976 touring with the <a href="/wiki/US%E2%80%93China_Peoples_Friendship_Association" title="US–China Peoples Friendship Association">US-China People's Friendship Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1970s, Gee worked as a photography teacher and lecturer at <a href="/wiki/Parsons_School_of_Design" title="Parsons School of Design">Parsons School of Design</a>, and as a <a href="/wiki/Curator" title="Curator">curator</a> and writer.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1979 she curated <i>Steiglitz and the Photo Secession,</i><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a reconstruction of the <a href="/wiki/Photo-Secession" title="Photo-Secession">Photo-Secession</a> exhibition held March 5–22, 1902 at the <a href="/wiki/National_Arts_Club" title="National Arts Club">National Arts Club</a>, New York, for the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_State_Museum" title="New Jersey State Museum">New Jersey State Museum</a> and the touring <i>Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective,</i><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for which she wrote the catalogue essay,<sup id="cite_ref-:3_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the <a href="/wiki/Center_for_Creative_Photography" title="Center for Creative Photography">Center for Creative Photography</a>. </p><p>In 1983, Gee was invited by Michael Spano, director of the <a href="/wiki/Midtown_Y_Photography_Gallery" title="Midtown Y Photography Gallery">Midtown Y Photography Gallery</a>, onto its newly formed board of advisors made up of significant members of the photographic community, including <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Siskind" title="Aaron Siskind">Aaron Siskind</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Leipzig" title="Arthur Leipzig">Arthur Leipzig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Fink_(photographer)" title="Larry Fink (photographer)">Larry Fink</a>, and Jeffrey Hoone.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Helen Gee died of pneumonia on October 10, 2004, in Manhattan, New York, N.Y.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gee's archive of her work and records pertaining to the Limelight Gallery are located at the <a href="/wiki/Center_for_Creative_Photography" title="Center for Creative Photography">Center for Creative Photography</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Arizona" title="University of Arizona">University of Arizona</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tucson,_Arizona" title="Tucson, Arizona">Tucson, Arizona</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Limelight: a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties: A Memoir.</i> Albuquerque: <a href="/wiki/University_of_New_Mexico_Press" title="University of New Mexico Press">University of New Mexico</a>, 1997. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0826318176" title="Special:BookSources/978-0826318176">978-0826318176</a>. <ul><li><i>Limelight: a Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the 1950s.</i> New York: <a href="/wiki/Aperture_Foundation" title="Aperture Foundation">Aperture</a>, 2016. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781597113687" title="Special:BookSources/9781597113687">9781597113687</a>. With an introduction by Denise Bethel.</li></ul></li> <li>Gee, H. (1991). 'Limelight: Remembering Gene Smith'. In <i>American Art</i>, 5(4), 10–19.</li> <li>Stourdzé, S., Gee, H., Coleman, A. D., & Levinstein, L. (2000). <i>Leon Levinstein</i>. Paris: Scheer.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Gee_(curator)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-NYT-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Loke, Margaret, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/13/arts/design/13gee.html?_r=0">"Helen Gee, Pioneer in Sales of Photos as Art, Dies at 85"</a>, <i>The New York Times</i>, 13 October 2004, accessed on 21 November 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-VV-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-VV_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VV_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VV_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VV_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-VV_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Aletti, Vince, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20131013202414/http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-10-12/art/helen-gee-1919-2004/full/">"Helen Gee 1919–2004"</a>, <i>Village Voice</i> (New York City), 12 October 2004, accessed on 21 November 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:2-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:2_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/n82035495">"Library of Congress LCCN Permalink n82035495"</a>. <i>lccn.loc.gov</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Her Gallery Pioneered Sales of Photographs as Art"</a>, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, 14 October 2004, accessed on 21 November 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Peter Frank: <i>Li-lan: The Game of Seeing Life</i> DoubleVision Gallery, Los Angeles, Nabi Press Publications, New York, NY, November 2003</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:4-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:4_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:4_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:4_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:4_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:4_8-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Warren, B., & Gee, H. (1997). Helen Gee's Limelight: An Interview. In <i>On Paper</i>, 2(1), 22-27.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRosenblum,_Naomi2000" class="citation cs2">Rosenblum, Naomi (2000), <i>A history of women photographers</i> (Second ed.), Abbeville Press, p. 268, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7892-0658-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7892-0658-9"><bdi>978-0-7892-0658-9</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+history+of+women+photographers&rft.pages=268&rft.edition=Second&rft.pub=Abbeville+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-7892-0658-9&rft.au=Rosenblum%2C+Naomi&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelen+Gee+%28curator%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Helen Gee / Limelight Gallery archive, 1919-2004. AG 74. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://ccp.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/finding-aid-pdfs/ag74_gee_limelight_0.pdf">https://ccp.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/finding-aid-pdfs/ag74_gee_limelight_0.pdf</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190322215542/https://ccp.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/finding-aid-pdfs/ag74_gee_limelight_0.pdf">Archived</a> 2019-03-22 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:3-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:3_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:3_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWarren,_Lynne2006" class="citation cs2">Warren, Lynne (2006), <i>Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography</i>, Routledge, p. 589, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-57958-393-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-57958-393-4"><bdi>978-1-57958-393-4</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+twentieth-century+photography&rft.pages=589&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-1-57958-393-4&rft.au=Warren%2C+Lynne&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelen+Gee+%28curator%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPeres,_Michael_R2013" class="citation cs2">Peres, Michael R (2013), <i>Focal encyclopedia of photography : digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science</i> (4th. / Michael R. 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