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Helen Levitt : New York
- Title
- Helen Levitt : New York / Shamoon Zamir.
- Author
- Zamir, Shamoon
- Publication
- New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Levitt, Helen
- Description
- 47 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Helen Levitt's (1913-2009) photographs from the 1930s and 1940s of the communities of New York City's Harlem are startling achievements of street photography. They catch the evanescent configurations of gesture, movement, pose and expression that make visible the street as surreal theater, and everyday life as art and mystery. The unguarded life of children at play became, understandably, Levitt's particular preoccupation. Levitt resisted political readings of her work, and distanced herself from the progressive impulses of social documentary photography. But class, race and gender are everywhere at work in Levitt's images. The diffidence and deceptive artlessness of the images also hide her devotion to both popular and avant-garde cinema, attention to the work of other photographers and frequenting of New York's museums and galleries. Here, Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi, examines the different registers and contexts of Levitt's work through a reading of New York, one of Levitt's iconic images.--Brookline Booksmith website (viewed on February 17, 2021).
- Series Statement
- MoMA One on One series
- Uniform Title
- 1 on one.
- Subject
- Levitt, Helen > Criticism and interpretation
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) > Photograph collections
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Street photography > New York (State) > New York
- Photography of children
- Photography, Artistic
- Portrait photography
- Photograph collections > New York (State) > New York
- New York (N.Y.) > In art
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 45).
- Call Number
- JQE 21-469
- ISBN
- 9781633451209
- 1633451208
- OCLC
- 1159857927
- Author
- Zamir, Shamoon, author.
- Title
- Helen Levitt : New York / Shamoon Zamir.
- Publisher
- New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- MoMA One on One series1 on one.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 45).
- Local Note
- B&W AND COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS.
- Added Author
- Levitt, Helen, photographer, artist.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 21-469