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Helen Levitt

Author : Shamoon Zamir
Publisher : Moma/Sharjah Art Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781633451209
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Helen Levitt written by Shamoon Zamir and published by Moma/Sharjah Art Foundation. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close reading of Helen Levitt's famous photograph of three children at play on a New York stoop Helen Levitt's (1913-2009) photographs from the 1930s and 1940s of the communities of New York City's Harlem are startling achievements of street photography. They catch the evanescent configurations of gesture, movement, pose and expression that make visible the street as surreal theater, and everyday life as art and mystery. The unguarded life of children at play became, understandably, Levitt's particular preoccupation. Levitt resisted political readings of her work, and distanced herself from the progressive impulses of social documentary photography. But class, race and gender are everywhere at work in Levitt's images. The diffidence and deceptive artlessness of the images also hide her devotion to both popular and avant-garde cinema, attention to the work of other photographers and frequenting of New York's museums and galleries. Here, Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi, examines the different registers and contexts of Levitt's work through a reading of New York, one of Levitt's iconic images.

Helen Levitt

Author : Helen Levitt
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393045499
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Helen Levitt written by Helen Levitt and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sixty-seven photographs of the urban and semiurban areas of Mexico city taken in 1941

Crosstown

Author : Helen Levitt
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crosstown written by Helen Levitt and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the diverse culture and street life of New York with pioneeringhotographs, from 1930s Harlem to black-and-white images from the 1980s and990s, a stunning collection pays homage to this acclaimed photographer.

Here and There

Author : Helen Levitt
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Here and There written by Helen Levitt and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 90 never-before-published photographs, this collection, as with 'Crosstown' before it, is an intimate record of streetlife in New York.

One, Two, Three, More

Author : Helen Levitt
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576878521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book One, Two, Three, More written by Helen Levitt and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Levitt's earliest pictures are a unique and irreplaceable look at street life in New York City from the mid-1930s to the end of the 1940s. There are children at play, lovers flirting, husbands and wives, young mothers with their babies, women gossiping, and lonely old men. A majority of these photographs have never been published. Other pictures included in this book are now world-famous, now part of the standard history of photography. Together they provide a record of New York not seen since Levitt's pioneering solo show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1943. Levitt's photographs are in some of the best photography collections in America, including: The Met, MoMA, The Smithsonian, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

In the Street

Author : Helen Levitt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822307716
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book In the Street written by Helen Levitt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photobook chiefly containing over 100 photos of children's street drawings and messages, taken between 1938 and 1948. Each photograph was selected and arranged by the photographer.

Helen Levitt

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783868288766
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Helen Levitt written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slide Show

Author : Helen Levitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Slide Show written by Helen Levitt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned for her iconic black and white street photographs, New York City's visual poet laureate Helen Levitt also possesses a little-known archive of colour work, which has been collected for the first time sin Slide Show. This book presents more than a hundred images, more than half of which have never been published or exhibited before. This impressive monograph is a worthy successor to her magnum opus, Crosstown, which included the largest collection of images to date. A truly definitive and marvellous collection of images from this master of the lens.

Dark Toys

Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300225741
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Dark Toys written by David Hopkins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood We all have memories of the object-world of childhood. For many of us, playthings and images from those days continue to resonate. Rereading a swathe of modern and contemporary artistic production through the lens of its engagement with childhood, this book blends in-depth art historical analysis with sustained theoretical exploration of topics such as surrealist temporality, toys, play, nostalgia, memory, and 20th-century constructions of the child. The result is an entirely new approach to the surrealist tradition via its engagement with "childish things." Providing what the author describes as a "long history of surrealism," this book plots a trajectory from surrealism itself to the art of the 1980s and 1990s, through to the present day. It addresses a range of figures from Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, Joseph Cornell, and Helen Levitt, at one end of the spectrum, to Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Paolozzi, Claes Oldenburg, Susan Hiller, Martin Sharp, Helen Chadwick, Mike Kelley, and Jeff Koons, at the other.

Mean Streets

Author : Edward Grazda
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576878439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book Mean Streets written by Edward Grazda and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The black and white photos in Mean Streets, collected here in print for the first time, offer a look at the infamously hardscrabble NYC in the 70s and 80s captured with the deliberate and elegant eye that propelled Grazda to further success. In the late 1970s and early 80s, the institutions of power in New York had failed. A bankrupt city government had sold its power over to the banks, and the financiers' severe austerity programs gutted the city's support systems. Most of the city's traditional industries had already left, and those power brokers in charge of the new system retreated to their high rises and left the streets to the hustlers, preachers, and bums; the workers struggling to get by; and a new generation of artists who were squatting in the empty industrial buildings downtown and bearing witness to the urban decay and institutional abandonment all around them. For the tough and determined, the quick and the gifted, the prescient and the prolific, a cheap living could be scratched out in the mean streets. Renowned photographer Edward Grazda began his career in that version of NYC. The black and white photos in Mean Streets, collected here in print for the first time, offer a look at that desolate era captured with the deliberate and elegant eye that propelled Grazda to further success. It's a version of New York that has been all but scrubbed clean in the financially solvent years that have followed, but the character of the city has been indelibly marked by the scars of those years.

Among Others

Author : Darby English
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633450349
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Among Others written by Darby English and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Others: Blackness at MoMA begins with an essay that provides a rigorous and in-depth analysis of MoMA's history regarding racial issues. It also calls for further developments, leaving space for other scholars to draw on particular moments of that history. It takes an integrated approach to the study of racial blackness and its representation: the book stresses inclusion and, as such, the plate section, rather than isolating black artists, features works by non-black artists dealing with race and race- related subjects. As a collection book, the volume provides scholars and curators with information about the Museum's holdings, at times disclosing works that have been little documented or exhibited. The numerous and high-quality illustrations will appeal to anyone interested in art made by black artists, or in modern art in general.

The Eye Club

Author : Jeffrey Fraenkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Eye Club written by Jeffrey Fraenkel and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eye Club," unofficially founded around 1975, was the nickname given to the loose conglomeration of individuals who found themselves among the first new collectors of photography. Operating purely on instinct and the love of seeing, these few dozen people (including Sam Wagstaff, Andre Jammes and other now-legendary collectors) shared a distaste for established pantheons and veered instead toward the lesser-known, the anonymous, the outri or any photograph emanating sparks of electricity. Photography was their perfect vehicle and they were startled to find themselves in so much unchartered territory. The nearly 100 surprising pictures in "The Eye Club" have been assembled in a similar spirit of adventure. Photography persists as an unruly medium, and this book is comprised of an unruly group of photographs, brought together in the open-eyed spirit of the Eye Club to mark the 25th anniversary of San Francisco's esteemed Fraenkel Gallery. Printed with exceptional fidelity to the original prints, this publication assembles little-known images by some of the most important artists in the history of photography, chosen with an eye toward the unexpected and including as-yet-unpublished work by Diane Arbus, Chuck Close, Constantin Brancusi, Robert Adams, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Nan Goldin, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Andy Warhol, among many others. A significant number of works by "Photographer Unknown" are included among gems by Richard Avedon, Nadar, Andreas Gursky, Lee Friedlander, Alfred Stieglitz, Adam Fuss, Helen Levitt, Paul Outerbridge and Robert Frank. The combination is fresh and surprising.

The Social Scene

Author : Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher : Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Social Scene written by Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) and published by Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. This book was released on 2000 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Photographs capture the soul of America in this catalog of an exhibition from the Ralph R. Parsons Photography Collection at MOCA, Los Angeles. Works by Brassai, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, among others, are profound documents of our nation and an era. Essays by exhibition curator Cornelia H. Butler, A.D. Coleman and others."

Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs (Signed Edition)

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Publisher : Aperture Direct
ISBN 13 : 9781683952336
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs (Signed Edition) written by and published by Aperture Direct. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last seven years, Melissa O'Shaughnessy has photographed daily on the streets of New York. As one of a growing number of women street photographers contributing to this dynamic genre, O'Shaughnessy enters the territory with clarity and a distinctly humanist eye, offering a refreshing addition to the tradition of street photography. Through her curious and quirky vision, we witness the play of human activity on the glittering sidewalks of the city. Woven into her cast of characters are the lonely, the soulful, and the proud. She has fallen for them all--perfect strangers.

Crimson Line

Author : Trent Parke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913288136
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Crimson Line written by Trent Parke and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the Australian steel city of Newcastle, one of TRENT PARKE?S only early childhood memories is accompanying his mother to pick his dad up from work, travelling through a landscape dominated by ship yards, chimneys, and the BHP steelworks. 00Throughout his career PARKE has always been interested in the transformative powers of light, but it was the ephemeral changing colours of dawn and dusk, the multitude or different reds that made him curious about the colour crimson. He discovered the colour that is used in commercial products is harvested from the crushed and boiled bodies of the female scale insect, the Cochineal. A tiny minute insect who inhabits the pads of the prickly pear cactus and who are farmed for their crimson dye. A dye now used primarily in cosmetics and food colouring. 00Scarlet, magenta, orange, and crimson, are the coloured dyes produced by the Cochineal and also seem to feature spectacularly in the colours of creation, as seen in an Eagle Nebula during the birth of a new star and recorded by the Hubble space telescope. These colours of birth and blood Parke also remembers from the bath water, the umbilical cord and placenta, at the birth of his sons.

Seeing Things

Author : Joel Meyerowitz
Publisher : Aperture Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781597113151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Things written by Joel Meyerowitz and published by Aperture Foundation. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses photographs to provide examples on how to interpret and appreciate photographs, offering advice on characteristics such as color, timing, and emotion.

Out My Window

Author : Gail Albert Halaban
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 9781576876121
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Out My Window written by Gail Albert Halaban and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window comes to mind when looking at Gail Albert Halaban's book of photographers of city dwellers peering into their neighbours' windows, Out My Window. The photographs are views across streets, alleyways and airshafts, peering through windows to reveal intimate portraits. These beautiful voyeuristic pictures capture both the intimacy and remoteness of living in proximity to so many strangers. Out My Window can be seen as an exploration of the contradictory impulses of metropolitan life: the desire to connect and the desire to be left alone.