Helen Levitt's (1913-2009) photographs from the 1930s and 1940s of the communities of New York City's Harlem are startling achievements of street photography. They catch the evanescent configurations of gesture, movement, pose and expression that make visible the street as surreal theater,...

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1. Verfasser:	Zamir, Shamoon (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Levitt, Helen 1913-2009 (FotografIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Museum of Modern Art [2021]
Schriftenreihe:	MoMA One on One Series
Schlagworte:	Levitt, Helen > 1913-2009 Fotografie New York, NY Levitt, Helen / New York, 1939 New York (N.Y.) / In art Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Bildband
Zusammenfassung:	Helen Levitt's (1913-2009) photographs from the 1930s and 1940s of the communities of New York City's Harlem are startling achievements of street photography. They catch the evanescent configurations of gesture, movement, pose and expression that make visible the street as surreal theater, and everyday life as art and mystery. The unguarded life of children at play became, understandably, Levitt's particular preoccupation. Levitt resisted political readings of her work, and distanced herself from the progressive impulses of social documentary photography. But class, race and gender are everywhere at work in Levitt's images. The diffidence and deceptive artlessness of the images also hide her devotion to both popular and avant-garde cinema, attention to the work of other photographers and frequenting of New York's museums and galleries. Here, Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi, examines the different registers and contexts of Levitt's work through a reading of New York, one of Levitt's iconic images.--Brookline Booksmith website (viewed on February 17, 2021)
Beschreibung:	47 Seiten 36 Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781633451209