Helen Levitt [English]

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<abstract displayLabel="Summary">Helen Levitt (1913-2009) began photographing street scenes in her native city of New York in the late 1930s. Her photographs capture the life of the urban setting and especially of the children playing in the streets. In the mid 1930s, Levitt met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans and she helped Evans make prints for his famous show American Photographs in 1938. She showed him her early black and white photographs of children with their improvised games and chalk drawings and he described the lyrical style of her work as anti-journalistic. Helen Levitt took her camera to the city's poorer neighborhoods, like Spanish Harlem and the Lower East Side, where people treated their streets as their living rooms and where she showed an unerring sense and empathy for the mystery and wry humor of everyday life</abstract>
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Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, from February 14 to May 17, 2026
Kunsthal Rotterdam, from May 23 to October 4, 2026
Fotomuseum Wintethur, from October 2026 to February 2027
C/O Berlin, from February to June 2027</note>
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