Helen k garber biography

Helen K. Garber is an American photographer known mostly for her black-and-white urban landscapes of cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Paris, Amsterdam and Venice.
Helen K. Garber is a renowned contemporary artist known for her captivating photographic works that explore themes of nature, abstraction, and spirituality.
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Helen K. Garber

American photographer (born 1954)

Helen K. Garber (born 1954) is an American photographer known mostly for her black-and-white urban landscapes of cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Paris, Amsterdam and Venice. Her images are in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of the City of New York, Portland Art Museum, Yale University and the George Eastman House.

Biography

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she earned her bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts, Design at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She moved to California in 1978 and lives in Santa Monica, California with her husband, Dr. Stuart Garber and two Springer Spaniels. Her studio is located at Venice Beach, California.

Helen worked in many different art disciplines including theatre scene and costume design, painting, computer animation and video documentary. In 1991, she produced and directed the video documentary, Shirley Kaufer, Artist. It was edited by the award-winning filmmaker, Phil Zwickler. Shirley Kaufer was shown in Lo

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Helen K. Garber is known for her night urban landscapes taken in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Venice, Italy. Her images are exhibited internationally and are permanent collections of museums, private and corporate collections nationwide. Helen's work has been published in a number of books and she authored Venice Beach, California Carnivale in 2005. Her photo essay about life on Ocean Front Walk became the official commemorative book for the 2005 Venice Centennial. A Night View of Los Angeles was commissioned for the 2006 International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy. It is a 40-foot long, 360-degree panorama of the entire city of Los Angeles that was printed on one continuous piece of silk fabric. A second print was printed on vinyl for the front entrance of Photo LA, 2007. Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa presented Helen with a special commendation for the beautiful rendition of the city. Helen partnered with graffiti writer, Duce and invited other renowned Los Angeles graffiti artists to use that print as a surface to ceremoniously tag the entire

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Helen K. Garber
(photo by Helen K. Garber)

Helen K. Garber, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, received a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre Arts, Design at the State University at New Paltz, New York. She has lived in California since 1978. In 1991, after a career in theatre scene and costume design, painting, computer animation and video, she documented Le Cirque du Soleil in Santa Monica, Costa Mesa and New York. Since then she has concentrated on still photography. Her portraits have been reproduced in periodicals such as the New York Times, the LA Times, Playbill, Hollywood Reporter, New York Magazine and the LA Weekly. Corporate clients included Hachette Filapecci Publications, The Getty Center, CBS, Penguin, and Doubleday.
Helen switched to fine art photography in 2000, and the numerous exhibitions of her work include venues such as Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Sotheby's , Beverly Hills, CA, UBS Paine Webber Gallery, NY, The Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL, Hermes Gallery, Beverly Hills, and Kathleen Ewing Gal