Haiti
From 1978 to 1982, over the course of fourteen trips, on assignment from America's, Museum, Der Stern, Time, and American and French Geo magazines, Tytell took thousands of photographs, focusing on the interplay between Haitian painters and their environment. Her work on the subject has been exhibited by the Villa de Medici in Rome, the French Institute in Athens, Greece, and the Mannheim Kunstvairen in Germany.
Selden Rodman, the Haitian art critic, noted Tytell's unique eye after an editor at Der Stern showed him a selection of Tytell's portfolio, and in a personal letter, expressed his appreciation for her work: "No one else has captured the essence of Haiti so unerringly...I'm more than ever impressed by the magical way in which you can find equivilant scenes in 'real life' to illuminate the paintings of such great artists as Rigaud Benoit, Philome Obin, Castera Bazile, Andre Pierre, St. Louis Blaise, Georges Liautaud and Jasmin Joseph. To use a word that should only be used with extreme caution, all these artists have a measure of "genius" and to catch that these artists catch intuitively with the camera's eye, takes as much genius."
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