Jessica Helfand

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.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

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.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

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.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

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.

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Journals

William Drenttel|Books

Late Summer Reading

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

Jessica Helfand|Essays

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 …

Jessica Helfand|Essays

The Public Face of Disgrace

The funny thing about lying is that it's about as far as you can go from the expectation of trustworthiness with which we characterize public leadership.