Helen Levitt, a giant of 20th century photography whose scenes of New York City street life provide a window into a vanished era, has died. She was 95. Levitt died Sunday in her sleep in her Manhattan ...

While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we are spotlighting each day an inspiring exhibition that was previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to give you a ...

I’m in Paris now, but for a week I was among the few Americans in London. That said, totems of America were plentiful. I saw two very good exhibitions on American artists. I wrote about the Helen ...

LONDON — You must look and look, and look again. Helen Levitt’s artwork seems to spring up from such an imperative. A pioneer of street photography, Levitt worked her entire life in the same few ...

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Helen Levitt (1913–2009) numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography. It was in the 1930s that this passionate observer and chronicler of New York street life first began taking ...

Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center is making the most of the 1,000-plus photographs donated last year by the Capital Group Foundation. A second exhibit has opened in what is scheduled as a ...

During the three long days of the transit strike, it may have seemed like all New York was in the streets. But Helen Levitt wasn’t tempted to join them. For the retired 92-year-old photographer, it’s ...

Reviewed Works: Gertrude Käsebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs Barbara L. MichaelsHelen Levitt by Sandra S. Phillips, Maria Morris Hambourg The mission of Art Journal, founded in 1941, is to ...

Helen Levitt, Untitled (man with glasses and hat sitting in chair), 1940. Gelatin silver print, 2.5 x 3.5 inches (6.3 x 8.9 cm). Signed and inscribed. Matted and in a black metal frame under glass.

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