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Purchased with funds provided by Lucia Woods Lindley and Daniel A. Lindley, Jr.
Reference Number
1987.382
Extended information about this artwork
Levitt, Helen. 1981. “A Way of Seeing.” Essay by James Agee. Horizon Press. pl. 7.
Levitt, Helen. 2002. “Helen Levitt.” textos, Claire Jacquet, James Agee. Consorcio Salamanca. Exh. cat. Centre national de la photographie, Paris. p. 17.
NY, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars,” September 22-December 31, 1989; traveled to San Franciso Museum of Modern Art, February 28-April 22, 1990; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 10-July 15, 1990; Art Institute of Chicago, September 15- December 1, 1990; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 5-April 28, 1991; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 8-August 4, 1991.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Bystander: A History of Street Photography,” December 10, 1994-April 16, 1995; traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art, January 16-April 4, 1999 (Chicago only). (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “After the Crash: Picturing the United States 1930-1943,” October 21, 2000–January 28, 2001. (Mark Pascal and Kristin Nagel Merrill)(Gallery 1)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs by the Score: Personal visions twenty-some years apart,” October 7, 2006-January 14, 2007 (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Film and Photo in New York,” July 21–November 25, 2012. (Katherine A. Bussard)
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