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Helen Levitt

Title
Helen Levitt / introduction by Jean-François Chevrier.
Author
Levitt, Helen
Publication
  • London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
Chevrier, Jean-François
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color); 19 cm.
Summary
Brooklyn-born photographer Helen Levitt (1913-2009) was an assistant to Walker Evans and a friend of Henri Cartier-Bresson, but forged her own path with fierce independence and endless curiosity about the world around her. She is best known for her street photography, capturing children at play on the streets of Depression-era New York and chalk drawings on walls, but she also cast her eye upon the adult world, seeking out moments of movement, transience and theatricality. 0Following her first solo exhibition at MoMA in 1943, she devoted more than a decade to filmmaking, but returned to photography in the late 1950s and began to work in colour as well as black and white. Lyrical and witty, her images reveal the streets of New York as flowing with life and unexpected poetry.00Translated from French. Original edition ISBN 9782330150082 (Paris: Centre National de La Photographie, 2021).
Series Statement
Photofile
Uniform Title
  • Photographs. Selections. 2018. English
  • Photofile.
Alternative Title
Photographs. 2018.
Subject
  • Levitt, Helen
  • 1900-1999
  • Street photography > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Social conditions
  • Street photography
  • New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century > Pictorial works
  • New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the French.
Call Number
JQC 21-99
ISBN
  • 0500411190
  • 9780500411193
OCLC
1240415125
Author
Levitt, Helen, photographer.
Title
Helen Levitt / introduction by Jean-François Chevrier.
Publisher
London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Photofile
Photofile.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Translated from the French.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Chevrier, Jean-François, writer of introduction.
Levitt, Helen. Photographs. Selections.
Research Call Number
JQC 21-99
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