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Dates:  1911 (ca) - 1969
 
  
She met Helmut Gernsheim in 1938 and they worked together as a team on many of the key works of photohistory. Their collection is housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.

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This exhibition coincides with the exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas (September 7, 2010—January 2, 2011).
 
  

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Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Alison Gernsheim.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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