Helen Levitt / introduction by Jean-François Chevrier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levitt, Helen, photographer.

Contributor:

Chevrier, Jean-François, writer of introduction.

Series:

Photofile

Standardized Title:

Helen Levitt. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Levitt, Helen.

National Book Committee.

Street photography--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Street photography.

Photography, Artistic.

Social conditions.

History.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century--Pictorial works.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

History.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

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).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Levitt, Helen. Photographs. Selections

ISBN:

0500411190

9780500411193

OCLC:

1240415125