LEVITT, Helen

About the photographer, Helen LEVITT (1913-2009) 

Helen LEVITT learned the art of film development as a teenager working for a commercial portrait photographer in the Bronx. In the mid-1930s, she began to establish her own style of street photography, taking a particular interest in children who turned city sidewalks into their own personal playgrounds and art studios. A lifelong New Yorker, Helen LEVITT continued photographing urban life for nearly 70 years, during which she garnered attention from the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim. In addition to her photography, she worked for many years with James Agee and Janice Loeb on documentary films.

Recommended photo books by and about Helen LEVITT

'A Way of Seeing' (1965/2020), 'Helen Levitt. Slide Show. The Color photographs of Helen Levitt' (2005), 'Helen Levitt: Photographien' (2008), 'Manhattan Transit. The Subway photographs of Helen Levitt' (2017), 'Helen Levitt' - Catalog Vienna (2020), 'Helen Levitt: New York' (2020)

Women Seeing Women
Women Seeing Women
This anthology contains 160 pictures by ninety female photographers to answer the question of whether there is a 'female gaze' in photography. The focus is on the four major subject areas of social reality, family, female body and virtual reality.
39,80 € * Weight 1.4 kg
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New York in Photobooks
New York in Photobooks
von Horacio Fernández, ed. With titles by ABBOTT, ARAKI, BEATON, BISCHOF, CARTIER-BRESSON, DAVIDSON, DEPARDON, EVANS, A.FISCHER, GILDEN, HAAS, HOFER, KERTÉSZ, KITAJIMA, W.KLEIN, LEVITT, LÖRINCZY, LYON, MORIYAMA, NAAR, PERESS, SCHLES, SISKIND, WEEGEE, a.o.
98,00 € *
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LEVITT, Helen - Helen Levitt
LEVITT, Helen - Helen Levitt
English catalog (2nd) for the Helen LEVITT retrospective exhibitions in London & in New York, containing around 130 of the most famous works, some of which are shown for the first time. She's one of the earliest representatives of 'New Color Photography'
39,90 €
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LEVITT, Helen - One, Two, Three, More
LEVITT, Helen - One, Two, Three, More
The images by Helen LEVITT in out-of-print 'One, Two, Three, More' are a unique & irreplaceable look at New York street life from mid-1930s to late 1940s: children play, lovers, husbands and wives flirt, young mothers with their babies, and lonely old men
68,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
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'Harlem. A Century of Images' by Deborah Willis (ed.)
'Harlem. A Century of Images' by Deborah Willis (ed.)
This volume illustrates one hundred years of district history in Harlem with photographic works by Eve ARNOLD, Richard AVEDON, Cornell CAPA, Roy de CARAVA, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Bruce DAVIDSON, Leonard FREED, Helen LEVITT, Aaron SISKIND and WEEGEE, a.o.
98,00 € *
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LEVITT, Helen - Helen Levitt
LEVITT, Helen - Helen Levitt
German catalog edition, published in the occasion of the Helen Levitt retrospective in Vienna.
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LEVITT, Helen - Manhattan Transit. The Subway Photographs
LEVITT, Helen - Manhattan Transit. The Subway Photographs
The most comprehensive publication so far of Helen LEVITT's photographs from the New York Subway contains many works that are being published here for the first time. These pictures began alongside Walker EVANS in 1938, in 1978 she to the underground.
75,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
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LEVITT, Helen - A Way of Seeing
LEVITT, Helen - A Way of Seeing
The new out-of-print edition of 'A Way of Seeing' by Helen LEVITT impresses with high-quality reproductions. Since its first publication in 1965, this volume of b/w photographs from New York in the 1940s has been revered as a classic of street photography
85,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
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LEVITT, Helen - Fotografien 1937-1991 - IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP!
LEVITT, Helen - Fotografien 1937-1991 - IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP!
The large catalog volume 'Helen Levitt. Fotografien' combines both color photographs with black and white images from 70 years of her photographic activity. The impressive selection ranges from early works from the 1930s to color photos from the 1990s.
120,00 € * Weight 2.4 kg
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LEVITT, Helen - A Way of Seeing
LEVITT, Helen - A Way of Seeing
Erstauflage des Klassikers der Straßenfotografie von Helen LEVITT. 'A Way of Seeing' zeigt Strassenszenen aus dem New York des 1940er Jahre. Eine Fotobuch-Ikone, die 2020 in einer Neuauflage mit zusätzlichen Aufnahmen in sehr guter Druckqualität erschien.
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