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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Helen Levitt, who died last week, at 95, made the life of the street come alive in her photographs. Pictures of children playing, standing on stoops in Spanish Harlem, or just lost in their own worlds ...

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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 ...

Helen Levitt, Untitled (two women with dog), 1940. Gelatin silver print, 3.5 x 2.5 inches (8.9 x 6.3 cm). Signed and inscribed. Matted and in a black metal frame under glass. Helen Levitt (1913- 2009) ...

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 ...