New York

Photography and Media

c. 1940

Helen Levitt
American, 1913–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Helen Levitt
Title: New York
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1935–1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed and signed verso, on mount, across center, in graphite: "L [in rectangle] / N. Y. © [?] 1942 / 15 [?/encircled] / Helen Levitt / [star]"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "26" [in a triangle]
Dimensions: Image/paper: 19.3 × 12.9 cm (7 5/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Mount: 20.3 × 13.9 cm (8 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 1989.589

Levitt, Helen. 1981. “A Way of Seeing.” Essay by James Agee. Horizon Press. pl. 14.
Levitt, Helen. 2002. “Helen Levitt.” textos, Claire Jacquet, James Agee. Consorcio Salamanca. Exh. cat. Centre national de la photographie, Paris. p. 18.

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, “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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