HELEN LEVITT

Helen Levitt (1913 2009) numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography. As a passionate observer and chronicler of ev eryday street life in New York, she spent decades documenting residents of the citys poorer neighbourhoods such as Lower East Side and Harlem. Levitts oeuvre stands out for her sense of dynamics and surrealistic sense of humour, and her employment of color photo graphy was revolutionary: Levitt numbers among those photographers who pioneered and established color as a means of artistic expres sion. The bo...[Read more]