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Lynn Gilbert (born January 7, 1938) is a photographer and author best known for her portraits of illustrious women from the 1920s to the 1980s and her documentation of Turkish homes and interiors.
Gilbert grew up in iNew York and attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, Bachelor of Arts (Art History) 1959 and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, New York, Bachelor of Science (Fashion Design) 1962.
Gilbert began her career as a photographer documenting the lives of her children in the 1960s, and used the camera to comment on socio-economic diversity with the photographic portraits of others’ children. In 1976 the Pace Gallery commissioned Gilbert to photograph the legendary sculptor Louise Nevelson who becane the inspiration for her photographic series "Illustrious Women". [1] Photographing these women, Gilbert documented the stories they shared during the photo sessions to become her first book “Illustrious Women” [2] Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Shaped Our Times (ISBN-13: 978-0517545942), [3] published in 1981. The book recounts the rich oral histories of forty-six pioneering women of the twentieth century from the arts and sciences, athletics and law, mathematics, and politics, and includes the portraits and oral biographies of such notable women as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Julia Child, Billie Jean King, Grace Murray Hopper, Joan Ganz Cooney, and Diana Vreeland. Karly Domb Sedof writing on the book and its attendant portraits in the Washington Post relates [that] "When “Particular Passions” was published in 1981, it was revolutionary" and then as Gilbert herself states to Sedof '"In the late 70s, the Internet did not exist. Information on groups of women was nonexistent. Ladies’ Home Journal/ published the first comprehensive list of 75 distinguished women in 1972, which included women like [President Richard] Nixon’s secretary, Rosemary Woods, and Rose Kennedy, whose positions were predicated on their relationship with men.”. [1]
Extensive travel to Turkey and Uzbekistan produced a photographic record of the historic home of the area, exhibited widely in Turkey, and recorded in the book, The Silk Road: Then and Now (2) published 2015. [4] The book records traditional homes of Turkey located along the ancient Silk Road, homes both humble and affluent, with a mix of furniture, art, linens, household serving items and vibrantly colored, centuries-old handwoven rugs. Her images are governed by design, color, balance and light. Then as Jack Morgan wrote for Texas Public Radio when the photographs were displayed in the Lone Star State ... "The pictures displayed at the Roosevelt Library almost look like paintings. Light, fabric, furniture—a very different kind of beauty. And something’s missing: no electric devices". [5]
In 2018 her work was the subject of a special exhibition "Women: A Time Capsule of the American Feminist Movement” at Thockmorton Fine Art at "The Photography Show" in New York City. [6] In February of 2024 Gilbert's photographs were the subject of a solo exhibition titled Time Capsule at the Ilon Art Gallery in Harlem. [7] [8]
Gilbert's work is held in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery a constituent institution of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC , the New York Historical Society in New York City, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, and the Richard and Ellen Sandor family collection, among numerous other institutions and private collections. [9] [10] [11] [12]
In 2022 Gilbert's portrait of Louise Nevelson received prominence anew when it appeared on posters all around the city of Venice during the Venice Biennale and as Sarah Douglas wrote in ARTnews ..."Gilbert’s image of Nevelson has become something of a symbol for this year’s Biennale". [13]
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