Helen Levitt / edited by Walter Moser ; editing, Astrid Mahler, Walter Moser ; translations from German, Caroline Schmidt.
Helen Levitt (1913-2009) 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...
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Language: | English |
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German |
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Heidelberg ; Berlin :
Kehrer,
[2018]
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Physical Description: | 231 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm |
Format: | Book |
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Helen Levitt (1913-2009) 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. Exhibition: Albertina, Vienna, Austria (11.10.2018-27.01.2019). |
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Note: | Catalog of an exhibition held at Albertina Museum, Vienna, October 12, 2018-January 27, 2019. |
Call Number: | TR659.8 .L485 2018 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 386828897X 9783868288971 |