HELEN LEVITT

Levitt is best known for her street photography, capturing children at play on the streets of Depression-era New York and chalk draw ings on walls, but she also cast her eye upon the adult world, seeking out moments of movement, transience and theatricality. Follow ing her first solo exhibition at MoMA in 1943, she devoted more than a decade to filmmaking, but returned to photography in the late 1950s and began to work in colour as well as black and white. With a foreword by Jean-François Chevrier, this new title in the accl aimed Ph...[Read more]