Jessica Helfand

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Page One: Great Expectations

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Five

In 1920, Warren Harding was elected President on a “Return to Normalcy” platform. But for Ezra Winter, nothing was normal.

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Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Four

Ten months before the 1929 stock market crash, Edna Murphey was one of America’s foremost experts in health and beauty: she was also extremely wealthy. Three years later she became Mrs. Ezra Winter.

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Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Three

In his first post-Academy professional pursuit, Ezra Winter is hired to design camouflage for the United States Shipping Board, using a reductive visual vocabulary of bold stripes and patches of solid color that is far closer to the …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Yoshiko Sato 1960-2012

Jessica Helfand's personal remembrance of the Japanese architect and designer Yoshiko Sato, who lost her battle with cancer earlier this month.

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Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Two

Chapter Two, Pilgrim : In 1911, Ezra Winter marries, wins the Rome Prize, and heads to Europe for three years of study and travel.

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Ezra Winter Project: Chapter One

Jessica Helfand, who teaches the seminar "Studies in Visual Biography" at Yale, shares her year-long exploration of the American muralist Ezra Winter: this is part one.

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Journals

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Late Summer Reading

In the late summer, we share a reading list first published in Frieze magazine, April 2011.

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Remembering Sylvia Harris

Sylvia Harris passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 24th, 2011: she was 57. Jessica Helfand remembers her friend.

Jessica Helfand|Dialogues

On the Shoulders of Midgets: A Conversation About Reality TV

A conversation about reality TV with Marvin Heiferman and Jessica Helfand.

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For Sale: The Earliest Modern Studio in America

In 1931, a young American artist designed a modern studio on a mountaintop in the Berkshires in Connecticut: it would be one of the first modern houses in America, pre-dating Frank Lloyd’s Fallingwater by five years. It …