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Helen Levitt
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Additional Helen Levitt Information
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"If ever anyone was born to be a photographer, Helen Levitt was. Looking at these pictures triggers that tingling feeling you get from photographs by artists like Lartigue, Kertész, and Cartier-Bresson: a feeling that the camera is less an expertly operated tool than the seamless extension of a mind and body that are preternaturally alert to the world." (The New York Times)
"Levitt’s photographs, like her city, though occasionally they rise to beauty, are mostly too quick for it. Instead, they have the quality of frozen street-corner conversation: she went out, saw something wonderful, came home to tell you all about it, and then, frustrated, said, ‘You had to be there,’ and you realize, looking at the picture, that you were." (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker)
Helen Levitt, the visual poet laureate of New York City, published her magnum opus Crosstown in 2001 to great acclaim. The book immediately sold out, never to be reprinted, making it a classic volume of street photography for the cognoscenti. Since then, Levitt has authored two smaller volumes, Here and There and Slide Show, her first monograph exclusively featuring her little-known color work, which have garnered her accolades from around the globe. Most recently, she was named the 2008 recipient of the SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, an honor previously bestowed on such luminaries as Robert Adams and Sophie Calle. In Helen Levitt, released in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition at Germany’s Sprengel Museum Hannover, the esteemed photographer presents her most iconic works, intermixed with never-before-seen color work. Combining seven decades of New York City street life with her seminal work in Mexico City, Helen Levitt features the master works of an incomparable career.
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What Customers Say About Helen Levitt:
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Book Arrived in time in excellent condition. The mention of Walker Evans name in conjuction with the book is a little decieving. There is only a short quote from him. I do like the simplicity of the book, no verbose self-important essays and keeping the photographs chronological history to a minumum.
. of HL's street photography (mainly). Well produced. The Walker Evans contribution is about one paragraph.
I purchased 7 of these books. I found this book nearly as good as Crossroads, which is now going for $200+. One of them was defective, and this sometimes happens, but Amazon is very amenable to returns and I'm going to send it back for a replacement. The binding and reproduction quality is excellent. The only difference with this is a lack of a tipped in image on the front. Amazon pays the return shipment. I own over 6000 photography books and this is well-worth the investment.
I ordered 5 copies of this book. It was such a pleasure to see all the new images that have never been published. I love Evans forward (brief but articulate), and to see the genius of Levitt through the years makes this my favorite book to date in 2008. I couldn't recommend it more.
Always thought Helen Levitt's photography was excellent, so I ordered this book. Both had still been in the shrinkwrap, so it was something that apparently had happened during the production process of the book itself.After the second copy was also damaged, I just asked Amazon to credit me back a refund. Upon receiving it I found two pages to be bent back at the corners, badly crimped. So, I returned it asking that a second copy be sent along with the reason I was returning it.When the second copy arrived, it also had pages damaged & bent. It's a hassle packing the book up twice, printing out return labels on the computer twice, taking it down to the post office twice (gas is $3.18 a gallon). One might think if Amazon really cared about customer service they would have taken a look at the second copy before shipping it to me, knowing the first copy was damaged.I'll pick one up at a bookstore.Ron Evans / Charlottesville, Virginia
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