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April 1, 2008
Katherine Ware and Peter Barberie Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julian Levy Gallery Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2005. 336 pp.; 284 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300116438)

Exhibition schedule: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, June 17–September 17, 2006

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.30

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In early 1927, Julien Levy informed his father that instead of finishing his last semester at Harvard University, he was sailing to Europe with the French Dadaist Marcel Duchamp to begin his career as an experimental filmmaker. Six months later he returned home to New York with a new passion, Surrealism, and a new calling, gallery director. Levy has long been considered one of the foremost champions in New York of Surrealism in the 1930s...