Helen Levitt - Helen Levitt - 2020

WONDERFUL CATALOGUE BOOK by Helen Levitt (1913-2009) -
showing all her famous photos from the streets in New York.

Helen Levitt numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography. As a passionate observer and chronicler of everyday street life in New York, she spent decades documenting residents of the city’s poorer neighbourhoods such as Lower East Side and Harlem. Levitt’s oeuvre stands out for her sense of dynamics and surrealistic sense of humour, and her employment of color photography was revolutionary: Levitt numbers among those photographers who pioneered and established color as a means of artistic expression. The book accompanying the retrospective of the Albertina Museum features around 130 of her iconic works. Many of these photos come from Helen Levitt’s personal estate, and this exhibition represents their first-ever public showing.

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Helen Levitt is famous for many beautiful photobooks like 'The Way of seeing' (Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 1, page 252 and 253).

Published on the occasion of the exhibitions in New York, Vienna, London, Brussels:

One, Two, Three, More
Foundation A. Stichting, Brussels
22.01. – 10.04.2022

In the Street
The Photographers´ Gallery, London
15.10.2021 – 13.02.2022

Albertina, Vienna
11.10.2018 – 27.01.2019

Helen Levitt: Five Decades
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City
08.11. – 22.12.2018

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Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg. 2020. Second Edition.

Hardcover (as issued). 220 x 270 mm. 232 pages. 203 black and white and 34 color photos. Photos: Helen Levitt. Edited by Walter Moser, Albertina, Vienna. Concept: Walter Moser. Editing: Astrid Mahler, Walter Moser. Design: Manuel Radde, Vienna. Texts: Duncan Forbes, Astrid Mahler, Walter Moser, Christina Natlacen, Bert Rebhandl. Text in English.

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Inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Slightest trace of use, no remarkable flaws or defects. Lacks the bellyband. Overall near mint, near perfect condition.

Great photobook by Helen Levitt - in wonderful fresh and flawless condition.

Helen Levitt is one of the most prominent female photographers in America, is one of the pioneers of street photography. Animated by Walker Evans and influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson and his philosophy of the Decisive Moment she started in the 1930s to develop a distinctive style, coined by Evans as “anti-journalism“. The streets of the poorer New York districts were transformed to stages of everyday life by the lens of Levitt's camera. The photographer herself presents her most iconic works in this volume, supplemented by formerly unpublished colour photographs. More than 100 of her legendary works shot in New York are united with pictures taken in Mexico and a dedication by Walker Evans to pay hommage to the american artist and her career that spans over more than seventy years.