had this to say about Helen Levitt's work.“At least a dozen of Helen Levitt’s photographs seem to me as beautiful, perceptive, satisfying, and enduring as any lyrical work that I know. In their general quality and coherence, moreover, the photographs as a whole body, as a book, seem to me to combine into a unified view of the world, an uninsistent but irrefutable manifesto of a way of seeing, and in a gently and wholly unpretentious way, a major poetic work.”
NYT article from March 30, 2009, Art and Design.
NPR's All Things Considered story from 2002.
James Agee's forward to A Way of Seeing
from Masters of Photography (Thanks Paul S.)
Helen Levitt - New York, 1974 from the book,
Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt - NYC, 1940
More Helen Levitt Books
from Masters of Photography (Thanks Paul S.)
Helen Levitt - New York, 1974 from the book,
Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt - NYC, 1940
More Helen Levitt Books
Those are amazing shots!
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to the Agee introduction to her first book:
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Thanks, Paul. I updated the post.
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