Influences, in the press…
In the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/thecity/27jill.html?ref=nyregion&pagewanted=print
April 27, 2008
Through Weegee’s Lens
By NIKO KOPPEL
“BACK in the 1970s, a gutsy blond named Jill Freedman armed with a battered Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city.
Influenced by the Modernist documentarian André Kertész, with references to the hard-edged, black-and-white works of Weegee and Diane Arbus, this self-taught photographer captured raw and intimate images, and transformed urban scenes into theatrical dramas…”
Although the title is amusing, wee think “Through Jill’s Lens” or even “Through Helen’s Lens” would be more appropriate…
