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Lou Bernstein (1911 - 2005)

LOU BERNSTEIN’S LIMELIGHT GALLERY

The Lou Bernstein Limelight Gallery is currently exhibiting a selection of Lou’s original vintage photographs that are available for purchase. If you are interested or need more information please contact Irwin Bernstein.

Click on a photo to see a larger image and to browse through the current display. Please take note of the historic descriptions and information associated with each photograph.

The Limelight gallery exhibition will change periodically. So visit often!

These original vintage photographs were printed and signed by Lou throughout his dedicated six and a half decade career.

More than 160 of Lou’s photographs have been and are now included in permanent collections and archives of the following museums:

The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1955, 1959.
The Museum Chateau de Clervaux, Luxembourg, 1064.
The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1970.
The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, 1978.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 1980.
The International Center of Photography, NY, 1992.
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 2003
The Jewish Museum, NY, 2008.
The Photo Gallery of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 2003

We honor and give tribute to Ms. Helen Gee, creator and proprietor, of the now legendary Limelight Coffee House & Photography Gallery, located in New York’s Greenwich Village. Ms. Gee committed to the art of photography, writing and painting. Operated this landmark institution for a little more than 7 years, from 1954 to 1961. Limelight was the birth of the photography gallery and was a center for the photographic art world, when New York was considered the capital for photography. The Limelight Coffee House & Gallery exhibited the images of many of the legends of photography recognized today.

We name this gallery in honor of Ms. Helen Gee for her wisdom and foresight.
Ms. Gee passed in 2004 and she will be missed.