Photographer Helen Levitt chronicled the NYC in the 1970s through her candid subway photography. The black and white photos are a discreet look at the everyday folks who rode the subway, from canoodling couples to those lost in thought. What's clear from these images is that the subway is a stage.
Helen Levitt - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Depuis soixante ans, Helen Levitt captait la poésie des rues new-yorkaises en se glissant subrepticement dans l’univers des enfants. Comme une petite souris. Elle s’est éteinte à l’âge de 95 ans… entourée de ses chats. Six images d’elle. Pour le plaisir.
Photographer Helen Levitt chronicled the NYC in the 1970s through her candid subway photography. The black and white photos are a discreet look at the everyday folks who rode the subway, from canoodling couples to those lost in thought. What's clear from these images is that the subway is a stage.
Boy Meets Girl. A Transatlantic Project.
Though the photographs in Helen Levitt’s book A Way of Seeing (now in its third printing by Duke University Press) have long been regarded as classics of 20th century photography, a significant aspect of Levitt’s work from this period is relatively little known. It is also not commonly known that Levitt has continued to produce […]
Photographer Helen Levitt chronicled the NYC in the 1970s through her candid subway photography. The black and white photos are a discreet look at the everyday folks who rode the subway, from canoodling couples to those lost in thought. What's clear from these images is that the subway is a stage.
Helen Levitt fue considerada una de las mejores fotógrafas del Siglo XX. Nacida en Nueva York en 1913, dedicó toda su vida a documentar la vida de los
Photographer Helen Levitt chronicled the NYC in the 1970s through her candid subway photography. The black and white photos are a discreet look at the everyday folks who rode the subway, from canoodling couples to those lost in thought. What's clear from these images is that the subway is a stage.
Laurence Miller Gallery présente Helen Levitt: Five Decades, mettant en vedette des tirages vintages remis par Levitt à James Agee et à sa famille entre
Photographer Helen Levitt chronicled the NYC in the 1970s through her candid subway photography. The black and white photos are a discreet look at the everyday folks who rode the subway, from canoodling couples to those lost in thought. What's clear from these images is that the subway is a stage.
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.
A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked in the most crowded and poorest neighborhoods of New York searching for the theater of everyday life.
