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Helen LevittNew York City (broken mirror)circa 1940
circa 1940
About the Item
14 x 10 inch gelatin silver print, initialed "H.L." on verso.
From the James Agee Family Collection.
Helen Levitt was a true master of the street, one whose poetic vision, humor, and inventiveness transformed the gritty world of New York City’s poorer neighborhoods into captivating, lyrical compositions. For over 60 years, she produced images that have inspired and amazed generations of photographers, students, collectors, curators, and lovers of art in general.
Born in Brooklyn in 1913, Levitt’s career began after the Great Depression. In 1936, she bought a 35mm Leica camera like that used by her mentor and hero, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Her early work recorded the transitory nature of life in the street by focusing on graffiti scrawled on sidewalks, girders, and walls. Later she directed her eye to the men, women and children she found on the streets and stoops of the neighborhoods she visited. With an angled viewfinder, she was able to photograph her fellow New Yorkers discreetly. In 1959 and 1960, with the support of two consecutive Guggenheim Foundation grants, she became an early pioneer in color photography, continuing her exploration of the daily drama on the streets.
The Museum of Modern Art (New York) hosted the first major museum exhibition of Levitt’s work in 1943; a second solo show of her color work followed in 1974. Major retrospectives of her work followed at many other museums: joint exhibitions in 1991 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; in 1997 at the International Center for Photography in New York; in 2001 at the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris; in 2007 at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris; in 2008 at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, where she was awarded the Spectrum International Photography Prize; and a major retrospective at the FOAM Museum (Amsterdam) in 2008. Most recently, Levitt’s work has been on exhibit at the Telfair Museum in Savannah (2014) and at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (2015).
- Creator:Helen Levitt (1913-2009, American)
- Creation Year:circa 1940
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU30229893622
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