Laurence miller gallery helen levitt biography
Biography.!
New York City, circa "“Helen Levitt was born and educated in New York City.
August 20, 2019
Arguably best known for the black and white photographs she made of the quiet, human dramas that unfolded in the streets and on the stoops of 1930's and 40's Spanish Harlem of her native New York, especially among its many children, Levitt turned to color in the very late 1950's and early 1960's.
The photograph colloquially known as "Spider Girl," a later iteration of that color work finds Levitt still there, in the street, seeing. In her earlier work, her interest in social surrealism tethered a visual lyricism that she rooted in the individual human body.
Though I will leave that subject to the experts, it's still here in this photograph, but attenuated by time, political change, and even the street-clearing effects of air conditioning.
The photograph speaks for itself, as James Agee purported of Levitt's photographs in their book A WAY OF SEEING, more eloquently and honestly than any comment
