Tag: Helen Levitt
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Helen Levitt’s Street Photos Blend the Poetic With the Political – The New York Times
Helen Levitt’s Street Photos Blend the Poetic With the Political Examining the overlooked work of a photographer whose images brought awareness to social issues. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/lens/helen-levitts-street-photos-blend-the-poetic-with-the-political.html New York City’s doorways, storefronts and cascading fire escapes were the grand backdrop to Helen Levitt’s photos. In the Lower East Side and Harlem, children pretended to be bride…
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Discreet Portraits of People on The New York City Subway in the 70’s – Feature Shoot
Discreet Portraits of People on The New York City Subway in the 70’s – Feature Shoot Helen Levitt was an extremely private person and preferred to let her photographs speak for her – and if you listen very carefully, you might just hear the Bensonhurst accent… via Feature Shoot: https://www.featureshoot.com/2018/01/discreet-portraits-of-people-on-the-new-york-city-subway-in-the-70s/ Helen Levitt was an extremely…
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Rediscovering the Urban Palette
Rediscovering the Urban Palette From the earliest hand-tinted postcards to kinetic, digital images, the sidewalks of New York have been muse and model to countless color photographers. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/rediscovering-the-urban-palette/ “New York in Color” is just that – a hefty tome spanning a century of Gotham in photographs, from hand-tinted postcards to tack-sharp and…
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Helen Levitt Captured Perfect Moments, Unnoticed : NPR
And she talked some about walking around the streets of New York and how she could capture those moments unnoticed. “I had attached to my camera — I had a little device that fit on the Leica camera that they called a winkelsucher, which meant that you could look one way and take the picture…
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Helen Levitt, Who Captured New York Street Life, Dies at 95 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com
Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless form of street choreography that held at its heart, as William Butler Yeats put it, “the ceremony of innocence.” A man handles garbage-can lids like an exuberant child imitating a master juggler. Even an inanimate object — a broken record — appears to skip and…
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Helen Levitt, 95, master of street photography – The Boston Globe
The critic Adam Gopnik, writing in The New Yorker in 2001, described Ms. Levitt as ”the supreme poet-photographer of the streets and people of New York.” Check it out here.