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Lynn Gilbert is a documentary photographer who has used her camera for the past 50 years to bring attention to areas of society that no one has recorded before.

Gilbert honed her craft by taking pictures of preschool kids at play in New York City private schools for almost a decade. In the 1970s, she took formal portraits of New York children at home in their environments. Her series 70’s Kids NYC represents children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds from more than a hundred families.

Her next body of work was portraits of key women from the second wave of the feminist movement. Her book ‘Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped our Times’, published in 1981, contains these 47 portraits, along with each woman’s story in her Lynn Gilbert is a documentary photographer who has used her camera for the past 50 years to bring attention to areas of society that no one has recorded before.

Gilbert honed her craft by taking pictures of preschool kids at play in New York City private schools for almost a decade. In the 1970s, she took formal portraits of New York children at home in their environments. Her series 70’s Kids NYC represents children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds from more than a hundred families.

Her next body of work was portraits of key women from the second wave of the feminist movement. Her book ‘Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped our Times’, published in 1981, contains these 47 portraits, along with each woman’s story in her own words. Her book was the first to identify these pioneering women in multiple disciplines, at a time when women were not given credit for their achievements. The book is reissued digitally as Women of Wisdom, and individual chapters are available.

For almost a decade, Gilbert photographed the interiors of authentic traditional homes throughout Turkey that had never been documented before. Her intimate, unstaged “portraits” of interiors capture a culture that is rapidly disappearing. This project led to the publication of ‘The Silk Road: Then and Now’ in 2015.

Currently, she is documenting one of the great private gardens of the world located in Westchester County, NY. For the past two years, from dawn until moonrise, Gilbert captured the soul of the garden.

For decades Gilbert has had exhibitions including the National Portrait Gallery, New-York Historical Society, Pace Gallery, Roosevelt Library, State Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Turkey, Throckmorton Fine Art, and AIPAD.

Gilbert has been widely published; MOMA’s website, The Smithsonian, The British Museum Blog, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Photo District News (PDN), New York Magazine, Antiques, The Advocate, Chicago Tribune, The Eye of Photography, Museé Magazine, and numerous Turkish publications.

Gilbert’s work is included in collections at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, New-York Historical Society, and private collections.
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	Particular Passions: Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore 3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Particular Passions: Grace Murray Hopper by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women of Wisdom: Talks with Women Who Shaped Our Times by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore 4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diana Vreeland by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Particular Passions: Gloria Steinem by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Particular Passions: Julia Child by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Particular Passions: Agnes de Mille by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Particular Passions: Bella Abzug by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Particular Passions: Billie Jean King by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore 2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Particular Passions: Betty Friedan by Lynn Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Gaylen Moore 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If each person does the best with what he has, that’s winning. He’s fulfilling his own potential.”
― Billie Jean King via Lynn Gilbert, Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times

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“I want to shape the todays and tomorrows.”
― Billie Jean King via Lynn Gilbert, Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times

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“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“Mother, do you grieve?
Know that I will return to you. I will be a flutter in the leaves above where you sit, cooking ruti on the stove. I will be the stray cloud which shields you from the days of sun. I will be the thunder that wakes you before rain floods the room.
When you walk to the market, I will return to you as footprint on the soil. At night, when you close your eyes, I will appear as impress on the bed.”
― Megha Majumdar, A Burning

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