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By Helen Gee

Within the overdue Fifties, Limelight used to be the busiest coffeehouse in big apple and the one images gallery within the state. this can be the tale of Helen Gee's efforts to open Limelight and her struggle to maintain it afloat for seven years. the main figures in images seem during this story--Edward Steichen, Robert Frank, W. Eugene Smith, Berenice Abbott, and others--and so do the large photographic occasions of the interval: the outlet of The family members of guy, the e-book of The americans. Gee has her personal own tales in addition: elevating her Asian American daughter by myself, facing a landlord with underworld ties and bookies who did company within the corridor of her condominium apartment, and dealing with unwelcome advances, quixotic staff, and suicidal photographers. this is often additionally a portrait of a time while Greenwich Village used to be a middle of inventive task, while actors, writers, painters, and photographers have been a part of a burgeoning coffeehouse scene. images as an artwork shape was once entering its personal, and Limelight Gallery made background with a few seventy indicates. the tale of its seven years is a laugh and heart-breaking, fascinating and unusually filled with event.

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We declined politely and backed out of the room, leaving Schlumbohm with yet another cone-shaped object in his hand. A month went by and the renovation was in full swing when we were suddenly besieged by inspectorshealth inspectors, building inspectors, fire inspectors, inspectors from city agencies that I didn't realize existed. I was Page 36 unprepared, not yet having learned how to grease palms (or "shoot silver bullets," as the Chinese say). It was as if every city agency was focused on 91 Seventh Avenue South, determined that it should not open.

Soon we were deep in conversation. He had a curious accentit sounded Russian with a tinge of French and other than the fact that he was indeed a painter, I learned little else. He preferred to talk about me. When did I first become interested in Page 18 art? I told him I'd been interested as far back as I could remember and that I'd once even thought of becoming a painter myself. " he said. " "I can't," I said. "I work for a living, and I'm raising a child. " "Making art is no luxury. " He went on and on, trying to convince me to "make art" on the side, when we were interrupted by a client, the account executive of Van Camp's Beans.

Page 22 Giving up on the vendors, I concentrated on shoppers, and for the rest of the afternoon went charging around, bursting with newfound confidence. My only frustration was having to duck into doorways and reload the camera every twelve shots, and after shooting eight rolls in less than two hours, I decided I was too prolific a photographer to stay with a camera as cumbersome as the Rolleiflex, and thought of buying a Leica. But when I picked up my contact sheets at the developer's that week, I found that I'd produced mostly blurs.

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