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Levi, Vicki Gold was born on September 16, 1941 in Atlantic City. Daughter of Albert and Beverly Valentine Gold.
(Before there was Vegas, and long before there was "realit...)
Before there was Vegas, and long before there was "reality television," there was Times Square. For a century, it has stood as the blazing Crossroads of the World; the sometimes magical, sometimes tawdry, but always spectacular epicenter of American commercial culture. Times Square Style is a visual compendium of the energy and dazzle and glamour that made the Great White Way the most famous -- and notorious -- place in America's most famous -- and notorious -- city. From Ziegfeld's Follies and George White's Scandals to titanic signs with screaming type -- Drink Pepsi! Smoke Camels! Good to the Last Drop! -- to burlesques with dancing girls in short, short skirts, this book brings to colorful life a trove of arcane, lost, and otherwise forgotten promotions, signs, flyers, programs, posters, records, napkins, advertisements, billboards, and other works of ephemera large and small. Times Square Style is published on the centennial anniversary of this defining American place, with more than 200 color images and 25 vintage black-and-white prints.
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the national republic of Cuba. To usher in the centenary, Steven Heller and Vicki Gold Levi have collected hundreds of vintage graphics of Cuba from the 1920s to the 1959 revolution. Cuba Style recalls the days of glory when the island was a veritable resort colony for Americans and Europeans who came in search of Latino music and dancing, gambling, tropical romance, and the best beaches in the Americas. To advertise these attractions, Cubano graphistos combined elements of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Bauhaus modernism, and Vegas-style kitsch in a distinctly Cuban sensibility. Cuba Style, the first book of its kind, reproduces a treasure trove of graphics from popular magazines, packaging, posters, and indigenous products such as liquor and cigars. It is a visual history of Cuba in its golden age as well as a wellspring of capitalist extravagance, seen here through the rare graphics of its extraordinary and now lost popular culture.
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Levi, Vicki Gold was born on September 16, 1941 in Atlantic City. Daughter of Albert and Beverly Valentine Gold.
Student, Montclair State College, 1959-1960; student, New School Social Research, New York City, 1970-1973; student, School Visual Arts, New York City, 1972; student, Lee Strass Berg School Acting, New York City, 1961.
Actress, Atlantic City, New York City and Los Angeles, since 1945. Assistant to president Family Fare, Incorporated, New York York City, 1966. Advertising representative Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1967.
Publicity director Misty Harbor, Ltd., 1968. Freelance picture researcher, since 1972. Contributing picture editor Esquire Magazine, New York City, since 1980, Mirabella Magazine, New York City, 1991-1993, Atlantic City Magazine, 1988-2000, New Woman Magazine, since 1995, Family Circuit, since 2000.
Story consultant Alvin Cooperman Productions, New York City, since 1985. History consultant various Atlantic City, New York City, since 1994. Lecturer on Atlantic City, since 1979.
Guest exhibitor International Center Photography, New York City, 1979. Guest exhibitor and lecturer Cooper Hewitt, New York City, 1980. Guest curator Songwriters Hall of Fame, New York City, 1979.
Guest lecturer Municipal Art Society, New York City, 1979. Co-founder Atlantic City History Museum, since 1985, board directors, exhibit director, since 1995. History consultant Toast to Times Square Committee, New York City, since 1988.
Curator Atlantic City Playground of the Nation, Atlantic City History Museum, 1994. Co-curator Charles K. Doble's Atlantic City, 1994, Images of African Americans in Atlantic City, 1995, Severty-Five Years of Miss America in Pictures, 1995, The Al Gold Years, 1996, Bettmann on the Boardwalk, 1997, 360 Degrees of Atlantic City, 1998, Stompin' at the Shore, 1999, Star Shine, 2001, Atlantic City History Museum, 1996, Noyes Museum Through the Lens, 1998, Up From the Boardwalk, Down by the Sea, 1998, The Illustrated World of Atlantic City, Atlantic City Art Center, 1999. Board directors Hecht-Levi Foundation.
Preliminary judge Miss America, 1997.
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(Before there was Vegas, and long before there was "realit...)
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Reviewer of grants, National Endowment for Humanities, Washington. Preliminary judge Miss American, 1997. Member NATAS (Emmy judge since 1987, special events committee 1989-1990), SAG, American Federation television and Radio Artists, American Society Picture Professionals (board directors 1984), Ziegfeld Club.
Married Alexander Hecht Levi, May 31, 1970. 1 child, Adam Hecht Levi.