Helen Levitt Exhibition Catalogue

Helen Levitt (1913 – 2009) numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography. As a passionate observer and chronicler of everyday street life in New York, she spent decades documenting residents of the city’s poorer neighbourhoods such as Lower East Side and Harlem. Levitt’s oeuvre stands out for her sense of dynamics and surrealistic sense of humour, and her employment of color photography was revolutionary: Levitt numbers among those photographers who pioneered and established color as a means of artistic expression. The book accompanying the retrospective of the Albertina Museum features around 130 of her iconic works. Many of these photos come from Helen Levitt’s personal estate, and this exhibition represents their first-ever public showing.

 

Title: Helen Levitt
Publisher: Kehrer, 2018, 2nd edition 2021
Editor: Walter Moser, Albertina, Wien
Authors: Duncan Forbes, Astrid Mahler, Walter Moser, Christina Natlacen, Bert Rebhandl
Photographer: Helen Levitt
Graphic Design: Manuel Radde
Format: Hardcover
Size: 22 x 27 cm, 232 pages
ISBN: 9783868288971