Helen levitt

Helen Levitt was an extremely private person and preferred to let her photographs speak for her – and if you listen very carefully, you might just hear the Bensonhurst accent…

Helen Levitt. New York. 1980. Chromogenic print, printed c. 2005. 18 × 11 15/16" (45.7 × 30.3 cm). Gift of Marvin Hoshino. 1257.2009.x1-x2. © 2024 Film Documents LLC. Photography

Over at MoMA, there are two big survey shows that focus on a single theme throughout the history of photography from the heyday of the daguerreotype through to the present. The first, Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, is an “installation that comprises more than 200 works by approximately 120 artists.” The second is an examination of photography’s relationship to sculpture titled The Original Copy: The Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, that “brings together over 300…

Two exhibitions that explore urban life in New York City during the first half of the 20th century have opened this month at the Cleveland Museum of Art. ...

Helen Levitt, New York, 1938

By Mike Johnston [Originally published in the American Camera & Darkroom magazine, in 1992.] Recently I’ve been fielding objections from Camera & Darkroom subscribers who feel that the whole enterprise of criticism is despicable and disreputable and—what’s worse, in my...

Helen Levitt was one of this century’s great photographers. Were I to say this about her great friend Walker Evans, it would seem like a tautology, rather like saying that Shakespeare was an important writer. Readers can judge for themselves why this should be the case, why one should need to say this about Helen.

Examining the overlooked work of a photographer whose images brought awareness to social issues.

The intersections of culture, art, science, and history.

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