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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

    A Way of Seeing

    • Helen Levitt (1913-2009)

    Spontaneous moments of childhood play intertwined with the daily rhythms of working-class street life in 1930s and 1940s New York City.

    Image courtesy of MOCA.

    A Way of Seeing

    • Helen Levitt (1913-2009)

    Spontaneous moments of childhood play intertwined with the daily rhythms of working-class street life in 1930s and 1940s New York City.

    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.
    Image courtesy of MOCA.

    Books

    A Way of Seeing

    (Buchhandlung Walther König, 2020)

    Helen Levitt

    (Kehrer Verlag, 2018)

    Helen Levitt

    (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991)

    Helen Levitt

    (powerHouse Books, 2008)

    Helen Levitt

    (Thames & Hudson, 2021)

    Helen Levitt

    (Actes Sud, 2021)

    Helen Levitt: In the Street

    (Duke University Press, 1987)

    Helen Levitt: New York

    (MOMA, 2021)

    One, Two, Three, More

    (powerHouse Books, 2017)

    Related Projects

    Behind the Saint-Lazare station, Paris, 1932. Image courtesy of Magnum Photos.
    The Decisive Moment
    • Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

    Ephemeral human moments portrayed through a fusion of spontaneity and precise composition.

    The Melted Car, 1944.
    The Suburbs of Paris
    • Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)

    Parisian suburbs during the transformative post-war period, capturing the interplay of evolving urban landscapes and the lives of working-class communities.

    Trastevere, Rome, 1959. Image courtesy of Magnum Photos.
    The Europeans
    • Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

    European identity captured through black-and-white photographs spanning five decades, emphasizing shared humanity and cultural diversity.

    Newtown, Conn., Oct. 17, 1959
    On Reading
    • André Kertész (1894-1985)

    A photographic meditation on the power of reading to connect individuals with words and with each other, inviting contemplation on a universal human activity.

    Sunday morning is the only time these cuties get a chance to get cleaned up... Image courtesy of ICP.
    Naked City
    • Weegee (1899-1968)

    Nighttime scenes of 1930s-1940s New York, portraying urban extremes of crime and social life through high-contrast flash photography and candid depictions of human emotion.

    Mortal Paris
    • Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001)

    Working-class life and urban alienation in 1950s Paris during post-war recovery and Algerian War, bridging the humanist documentary tradition with more experimental and subjective approaches.