GITA LENZ

摘要

The life of Gita Lenz is a tes-tament to the tenacious-and precarious-pursuit of making art. The self-taught, self-described "Sunday photogra-pher" spent the better part of the late 1940s-1950s creating a large and unique body of work, inclusive of then current trends in photography as well as more ambiguous directions. She was included in two exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, includ-ing the seminal The Family of Man, and a three-person show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Her photographs also appeared in such prestige publications as Photo Arts, American Photography and U.S. Camera. But talent alone doesn't always ensure last-ing recognition, and Lenz' visual legacy came perilously close to slipping through the cracks of time. Happily, thanks to the com-bined efforts of a few good Samaritans, Lenz' elegant and enigmatic images are receiving lonq-overdue attention.