MANHATTAN TRANSIT

In 1938 Helen Levitt (19132009) accompanied Walker Evans on a project to photograph passengers on the New York subway. Soon she was taking her own pictures. More empathetic and informal than Evans, Levitts finest photographs are the product of her willingness t o participate as a fellow citizen, not as a photographer setting herself apart. The disarming ease of Levitts pictures quickly accr ues into an undeniably singular attitude to both the medium and the world.Around 1978?a full four decades after her first foray?Levi tt returned ...[Read more]