title: Vignettes: Chapters From a Life
author: Vivian Cherry
description: As a young woman, Cherry danced with the Helen Tamiris Dance Company and in concert, and nightclubs including the La Conga and Le Bal Taberin. She was a soloist at the Roxy Theater, and danced on Broadway in Sadie Thompson and in the 1945 a revival of Showboat. After a knee injury she took a job as a darkroom technician for Underwood and Underwood where she developed printing skills. In 1946 she joined the Photo League and studied with Sid Grossman, and soon began selling her photographic essays to magazines such as Life, Look, Popular Photography, Pageant, Jubilee, Coronet, This Week, Salon Photography, Amerika, Redbook, Scope, Parade, Ebony, Sports Illustrated and Colliers. She worked with Arnold Eagle on a documentary film about the Actors Studio and its director, Lee Strasberg. She also produced and photographed a childrens film, Hello Halloween. In 2000, the Brooklyn Museum mounted a major retrospective of her work. In addition she has exhibited and is the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, International Center For Photography NYC, National Portrait Gallery-Smithsonian, Washington, DC, The Jewish Museum, NYC, The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH, Microsoft, Seattle, WA, Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe. NM, Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA, Higher Pictures, NYC, Marquette University, WI, Soho Photo, NYC, Central Fine Arts, NYC, New York Public Library, NYC, The Gallery at St Marys College, St Marys City, MD, Soho Triad, NYC, SK Josephson Gallery, Portland, OR and many others. Vivian Cherry has her photographs appearing in many books including - Picturing NY-Museum of Modern Art, The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day-Harper One, Only Skin Deep-Abrams, Revolution Of the Heart-Temple University Press, Remembering the Lower East Side-Indiana University Press, Loaves and Fishes- Harper &amp; Row, Cityscapes-Columbia University Press, The Radical Camera- Yale University Press etc. Cherry has two books of her photographs published by powerHouse. They are They are Helluva Town: New York in the 1940s and 50s (2007) and Vivian Cherrys New York (2010).
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  > CONTENTS
  
  > [A Thank You Gift](index_split_003.html#filepos7498)
  
  > [Chapter 1](index_split_005.html#filepos10327)
  
  > [Chapter 2](index_split_006.html#filepos28725)
  
  > [Chapter 3](index_split_007.html#filepos47409)
  
  > [Chapter 4](index_split_008.html#filepos67427)
  
  > [Chapter 5](index_split_009.html#filepos86287)
  
  > [Chapter 6](index_split_010.html#filepos106340)
  
  > [Chapter 7](index_split_011.html#filepos127223)
  
  > [Chapter 8](index_split_012.html#filepos145681)
  
  > [Chapter 9](index_split_013.html#filepos166674)
  
  > [Chapter 10](index_split_014.html#filepos185634)
  
  > [Chapter 11](index_split_015.html#filepos204594)
  
  > [Chapter 12](index_split_016.html#filepos225017)
  
  > [Chapter 13](index_split_017.html#filepos243841)
  
  > [Chapter 14](index_split_018.html#filepos261873)
  
  > [Chapter 15](index_split_019.html#filepos273657)
  
  > [Chapter 16](in