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* 1973 Bergen Community Museum, Paramus, NJ.
* 1973 Bergen Community Museum, Paramus, NJ.
* 1976 Nikon House Gallery, NYC - Chase Manhattan Photography
* 1976 Nikon House Gallery, NYC - Chase Manhattan Photography
* 1976 ''Images of Industry,'' Kodak Gallery, NYC and [[George Eastman Museum|Eastman House]], Rochester, New York<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Y-MCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=1976+%22Images+of+Industry%22+Kodak+Gallery,&source=bl&ots=ifBA5fegBi&sig=ACfU3U2D8AsAfJ4AOlMSEFbcK1bUPtBYRw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMpfnItLTjAhUQfX0KHYjfBjsQ6AEwCnoECA8QAQ#v=onepage&q=1976%20%22Images%20of%20Industry%22%20Kodak%20Gallery,&f=false|title=New York Magazine Art listings: Photography, Mar 29, 1976, Page 26, Vol. 9, No. 13.|last=|first=|date=1976-03-29|publisher=New York Media, LLC|year=1976|isbn=|location=|pages=|language=en}}</ref>
* 1976 ''Images of Industry,'' Kodak Gallery, NYC and [[George Eastman Museum|Eastman House]], Rochester, New York
*1977 ''Helen Gee and the Limelight: A Pioneering Photography Gallery of the Fifties'', Carlton Gallery, February 12-March 8,
*1977 ''Helen Gee and the Limelight: A Pioneering Photography Gallery of the Fifties'', Carlton Gallery, February 12-March 8,
* 1981 ''Portrait of a Building,'' Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
* 1981 ''Portrait of a Building,'' Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
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*2010: ''Point of View,'' group exhibition with Janine Free, Dana Levine, Lev Tsimring, John Valois, and Phyllis Weiss, Gallery 21, [[Spanish Village Art Center]], San Diego, July 7–July 19<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2010/07/08/36116.html|title=Arthur Lavine, Renowned Photographer, to Exhibit in Balboa Park - Gallery 21, Spanish Village - absolutearts.com|website=www.absolutearts.com|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>
*2010: ''Point of View,'' group exhibition with Janine Free, Dana Levine, Lev Tsimring, John Valois, and Phyllis Weiss, Gallery 21, [[Spanish Village Art Center]], San Diego, July 7–July 19<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2010/07/08/36116.html|title=Arthur Lavine, Renowned Photographer, to Exhibit in Balboa Park - Gallery 21, Spanish Village - absolutearts.com|website=www.absolutearts.com|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>
* 2013 ''Lavine/Levine: Relative Viewpoints'', Gotthelf Art Gallery, September 11 - November 27<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sdcjc.org/gag/season_1314.aspx|title=Season 2013-2014|website=www.sdcjc.org|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref>
* 2013 ''Lavine/Levine: Relative Viewpoints'', Gotthelf Art Gallery, September 11 - November 27<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sdcjc.org/gag/season_1314.aspx|title=Season 2013-2014|website=www.sdcjc.org|access-date=2019-06-26}}</ref>
*2014 ''Experiments in Abstraction'', Keith de Lellis Gallery, 17 Sep – 31 Oct<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.keithdelellisgallery.com/Exhibitions/Experiments_In_Abstraction/02.htm|title=Keith de Lellis Gallery|website=www.keithdelellisgallery.com|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref><ref>William Meyers review of 'Experiments in Abstraction', ''Wall Street Journal'', October 17th 2014</ref>
* 2015 ''Architectural Abstractions: Vintage Photographs of New York'', Keith de Lellis Gallery, 17 Sep – 31 Oct
* 2015 ''Architectural Abstractions: Vintage Photographs of New York'', Keith de Lellis Gallery, 17 Sep – 31 Oct<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.keithdelellisgallery.com/Exhibitions/Abstract%20Vision/45.htm|title=Keith de Lellis Gallery|website=www.keithdelellisgallery.com|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>
* 2017 ''Street Photography around the World'', Gallery 21, Spanish Village Art Center, San Diego, March 22–April 3<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sdjewishjournal.com/sdjj/sdjj/event/exhibition-at-spanish-village-pays-tribute-to-photographer-arthur-lavine/|title=Exhibition at Spanish Village Pays Tribute to Photographer Arthur Lavine (2017-03-26)|website=sdjewishjournal.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-25}}</ref>
* 2017 ''Street Photography around the World'', Gallery 21, Spanish Village Art Center, San Diego, March 22–April 3<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sdjewishjournal.com/sdjj/sdjj/event/exhibition-at-spanish-village-pays-tribute-to-photographer-arthur-lavine/|title=Exhibition at Spanish Village Pays Tribute to Photographer Arthur Lavine (2017-03-26)|website=sdjewishjournal.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-25}}</ref>
* 2017 ''The Photograph as Witness: The American Cultural Landscape'', Museum Photographic Arts, 1 Sep – 31 Oct
* 2017 ''The Photograph as Witness: The American Cultural Landscape'', Museum Photographic Arts, 1 Sep – 31 Oct<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mopa.org/exhibitions/photograph-witness-american-cultural-landscape-2/|title=The Photograph as Witness: The American Cultural Landscape|website=Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA)|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-14}}</ref>


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Arthur Lavine (December 20, 1922 - June 27, 2016) was an American mid-century photojournalist and magazine photographer.

Early life

Arthur Eli ('Art') Lavine was born December 20, 1922, in Trenton, N.J., the son of Barney and Helen Lavine,[1] and brother of younger sister Audrey, an artist, who died in 1982.

Lavine’s first ambition was to become a cinematographer for which he studied drama at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.[2]

During World War II he served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the Pacific as a non-combatant photographer and was darkroom supervisor in Noumea, New Caledonia.[3] His imagery, as a record of this momentous period in the archipelago, has attracted scholarly interest.[4][5][3]

New York

On his return in 1948 Lavine moved into his first apartment at Third Avenue and 53rd Street, NYC.. Keen to get work, he advanced on his wartime training by joining the workshops and classes of Lisette Model, Alexey Brodovitch, Berenice Abbott, and Clarence H. White, Jr. His first success was a story on the Philadelphia Zoo that he sold for a Sunday feature.[6] By the 1950s he had "met many magazine editors and quickly started to get assignments,”[7] then joined the Black Star agency to free-lance[6][8] for more than thirty magazines including Collier's,[9] Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Glamour, Newsweek, Fortune, Look, Life,[10][1] and Redbook, shooting much of his work in colour.[11] In 1951 he became member and then officer of the American Society of Magazine Photographers and was a member of the ASMP San Diego Chapter.[12]

Photographs

Working in the humanist genre, Lavine had a talent for visually conveying the essentials of each story he illustrated,[6][13] sometimes to humorous, and always to sympathetic, effect.[14] In the 1940s he personally initiated stories on Trenton, Maine and subway passengers in New York. His pictures were included in three exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art including his best-known, Working Hands, Bath, Maine, 1947, of the hands and arms of two workers, sunlit and muscular, grasping the stout wooden lever of a valve on a pipeline, an image that recent commentator Marc-Emmanuel Mélon, interprets as phallic.[15] Cropped into a tight vertical, it was selected for Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man at the Museum which then toured the world and was seen by 9 million visitors.[16][17][18] His mid-50s pictures of Helen Gee's Limelight Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in Greenwich Village illustrate her autobiography[19] and provide a valuable historic record of a vital era in which photography was becoming collectible as an art form in America.[20] As well as the emerging coffee houses, in that decade he also covered the working class districts of New York, the demolition of the elevated railway, sharecroppers in Virginia for the Newport News, and farm workers in Kansas, Dakota and Nebraska. His 1960s subjects are diverse and include the anti-Vietnam marches and construction of the World Trade Center.

Corporate photography

Lavine reduced his freelancing in the late '50s to become a corporate staff photographer producing in-house publications, annual reports, press releases and displays, first for four years from 1956 at Western Electric Company, and then for 22 years at Chase Manhattan Bank,[21] where he documented the beginnings of business computing.[22] He continued with his personal photographic projects.

Later life

in 1992 Lavine settled in San Diego with his wife Rhoda and continued to produce and exhibit reportage,[13] mood pieces and abstract works. He died aged 93 on June 27, 2016 at his Rancho Bernardo home after suffering Alzheimer’s disease. He was survived by his wife, two sons and three grandchildren.[14]

An archive of his documents and imagery is held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Publications

  • Cohn, D. L., Scroggs, R., & Lavine, A. (1941). Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina.
  • Steichen, Edward; Sandburg, Carl; Norman, Dorothy; Lionni, Leo; Mason, Jerry; Stoller, Ezra; Museum of Modern Art (New York) (1955). The family of man: The photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation.
  • Rothstein, Arthur (1956), Photojournalism : pictures for magazines and newspaper[s] (1st ed.), American Photographic Book Publishing
  • National Committee for Children and Youth; Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973; White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1960 (1964), The joy of children : based on the photographic exhibit prepared for the 1960 White House conference on children and youth, Day{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Gee, H. (1991). 'Limelight: Remembering Gene Smith'. American Art, 5(4), 10-19.
  • Photographs in Gee, Helen (1997), Limelight : a Greenwich Village photography gallery and coffeehouse in the fifties : a memoir (1st ed.), University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-1817-6
  • Lavine, Arthur; Neaoutine, Marie-Solange, (director of publication.); Cayrol-Baudrillart, Françoise; Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie (issuing body.) (2008), Arthur Lavine photographe, Nouvelle-Calédonie, première source d'Inspiration = Arthur Lavine's pacific inspiration early photographs in New Caledonia, Nouméa Musée de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, ISBN 978-2-918071-00-6{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[4]
  • Ahrens, Prue; Creely, Kathryn (2008-01-01), Arthur Lavine and American modernism in the Pacific, Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie
  • Bera, S., Lavine, A., Indie Photobook Library/Larissa Leclair Collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library), & Blurb (Firm),. (2011). California cell.

Collections

  • The International Center of Photography, New York City[23]
  • Art Institute of Chicago[24]
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston[25]
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France[26]

Exhibitions

Solo

  • 1970: Image Photographic Laboratory Gallery, NYC
  • 1997: Photo Factory Gallery, San Diego, CA
  • 1998: Continuing Education Center at Rancho Bernardo, San Diego
  • 1999: Images of Israel and New York ('99) Photo Factory Gallery, San Diego, CA
  • 2001: Photo Factory Gallery, San Diego
  • 2003: Arthur Lavine fotografien: 1940 - 1970, Photogalerie 94, Switzerland, May 31– Jun 29
  • 2003: The Inclusive Eye, Boehm Gallery, San Marcos, July 18 –Aug. 29[27]
  • 2007: Arthur Lavine: peripatetic wanderings and meditations, Museum of Photographic Arts, 12 May – 2 Sep[28][29][30]
  • 2007: Arthur Lavine: nimble witness, 4 Walls Gallery, San Diego, CA, May 12–Sep 2.[29][31]
  • 2008: Arthur Lavine photographe, Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, Mar 4–June 12[32][33]
  • 2009: Eye on Wall Street, Seaport District Cultural Association, October 1 – October 30[34]

Group

  • 1951 Abstraction in Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, May 1–July 4[35]
  • 1951/2 Christmas Photographs, November 29, 1951 – January 6, 1952, The Museum of Modern Art
  • 1954 Village Camera Club, New York - group show with Arthur Leipzig, Sol Libsohn and David Linton[36]
  • 1955 The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, 24 Jan – 8 May and touring worldwide.[16][17][18]
  • 1955 Limelight, Greenwich Village, NYC
  • 1950s American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) exhibits, including one at the New York Coliseum
  • 1960 These Are Our Children, White House Conference on Children and Youth, Washington, D.C.
  • 1960s (7 exhibitions held throughout) Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC.
  • 1969 The World of Color, Union Carbide, NYC.
  • 1973 Bergen Community Museum, Paramus, NJ.
  • 1976 Nikon House Gallery, NYC - Chase Manhattan Photography
  • 1976 Images of Industry, Kodak Gallery, NYC and Eastman House, Rochester, New York[37]
  • 1977 Helen Gee and the Limelight: A Pioneering Photography Gallery of the Fifties, Carlton Gallery, February 12-March 8,
  • 1981 Portrait of a Building, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
  • 1991 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa - Limelight photo in traveling Lisette Model retrospective, international tour Feb 18, 1991–Apr. 20, 1992, Canada tour; Aug 10, 1991–Oct 14, 1992.[38]
  • 1997-98 Mercy Hospital, San Diego, CA - three group shows, two shows curated by Lavine
  • 1998 Take the A Train, Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC.
  • 1998 ASMP Showcase '98, Framemaker Gallery, San Diego, CA (group show dedicated to Lavine)
  • 1999-2001 Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego - five different exhibits from the museum's 2001 permanent collection
  • 2001 Helen Gee and the Limelight: The Birth of the Photography Gallery, 1954-1961 Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago.
  • 2006 New York City - 2 Photographers, 5 Decades: Jill Freedman, Arthur Lavine, with photographs from the 1940’s and 50’s by Arthur Lavine, and the 1960’s to 1980’s by Jill Freedman, Photographic Gallery, Jun 10–Aug 27[39]
  • 2008 The Art of Photography Show 2008, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California.[40]
  • 2009 The Art of Photography Show 2009, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California.[41]
  • 2010: Point of View, group exhibition with Janine Free, Dana Levine, Lev Tsimring, John Valois, and Phyllis Weiss, Gallery 21, Spanish Village Art Center, San Diego, July 7–July 19[42]
  • 2013 Lavine/Levine: Relative Viewpoints, Gotthelf Art Gallery, September 11 - November 27[43]
  • 2014 Experiments in Abstraction, Keith de Lellis Gallery, 17 Sep – 31 Oct[44][45]
  • 2015 Architectural Abstractions: Vintage Photographs of New York, Keith de Lellis Gallery, 17 Sep – 31 Oct[46]
  • 2017 Street Photography around the World, Gallery 21, Spanish Village Art Center, San Diego, March 22–April 3[47]
  • 2017 The Photograph as Witness: The American Cultural Landscape, Museum Photographic Arts, 1 Sep – 31 Oct[48]

References

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  2. ^ Cohn, D. L., Scroggs, R., & Lavine, A. (1941). Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina.
  3. ^ a b Ahrens, Prue; Creely, Kathryn (2008-01-01), Arthur Lavine and American modernism in the Pacific, Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie
  4. ^ a b Hawkes, K., & Quanchi, M. (2013). From the Archives: Photography Collections of the Archives of New Caledonia. The Journal of Pacific History, 48(4), 484-493.
  5. ^ Moore, C., & Sandgren, H. (2011). Pacific Studies at the University of Queensland 1990-2011.
  6. ^ a b c Jacobs, Lou, Jr. 'The Facts of Freelancing'. In Popular Photography, Dec 1956, pages 118-9, 160-163, Vol. 39, No. 6, Ziff-Davis Publishing
  7. ^ Post, Scott Baradell. "Arthur Lavine's First Solo Exhibit Shows Off Seven-Decade Career | Black Star Rising". Retrieved 2019-06-25. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ Jacobs, Lou (1965), Free-lance magazine photography : a guide to the working photojournalist, Chilton Books, p. 4,67, 71
  9. ^ 'Nature is full of surprises; the wonders in our museums'. Photographs by Arthur Lavine. In Collier's, Volume 135, p.62, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1955
  10. ^ LIFE, 20 Apr 1962, p.112, Vol. 52, No. 16, ISSN 0024-3019, Time Inc.
  11. ^ PSA Journal, Volume 18, page 463, 1959, Photographic Society of America
  12. ^ 'ASMP Members'. In ASMP Picture Annual 1957, page 192, American Society of Magazine Photographers, Simon and Schuster, 1957
  13. ^ a b De Maré, Eric Samuel (1975), Photography (6th ed.), Penguin, p. 114, ISBN 978-0-14-046031-5
  14. ^ a b "Renowned photographer captured humanity". San Diego Union-Tribune. 2016-07-16. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  15. ^ Mélon, M. E. (2004). The Patriarchal Family. Domestic Ideology in "The Family of Man". The Family of Man 1955-2001. Humanismus und Postmoderne: Eine Revision von Edward Steichens Fotoausstellung, 56-79.
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  17. ^ a b Hurm, Gerd, 1958-, (editor.); Reitz, Anke, (editor.); Zamir, Shamoon, (editor.) (2018), The family of man revisited : photography in a global age, London I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-1-78672-297-3 {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  19. ^ Gee, Helen (1997), Limelight : a Greenwich Village photography gallery and coffeehouse in the fifties : a memoir (1st ed.), University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-1817-6
  20. ^ Gee, H. (1991). 'Limelight: Remembering Gene Smith'. In American Art, 5(4), 10-19.
  21. ^ Corner, George W. (George Washington) (1965), A history of the Rockefeller Institute, 1901-1953 : origins and growth, Rockefeller Institute Press, p. 536
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  42. ^ "Arthur Lavine, Renowned Photographer, to Exhibit in Balboa Park - Gallery 21, Spanish Village - absolutearts.com". www.absolutearts.com. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
  43. ^ "Season 2013-2014". www.sdcjc.org. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
  44. ^ "Keith de Lellis Gallery". www.keithdelellisgallery.com. Retrieved 2019-07-14.
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  47. ^ "Exhibition at Spanish Village Pays Tribute to Photographer Arthur Lavine (2017-03-26)". sdjewishjournal.com. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  48. ^ "The Photograph as Witness: The American Cultural Landscape". Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA). Retrieved 2019-07-14.

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