About The Book
The book accompanying the retrospective of the Albertina Museum features around 130 of Levitt’s iconic works. These range from her early, surrealism-influenced photographs of chalk drawings to her 1941 photos from Mexico and the clandestinely shot portraits of New York subway passengers that Walker Evans encouraged her to do in 1938.
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About The Artist
Helen Levitt (1913–2009) numbers among the foremost exponents of street photography. As a passionate observer and chronicler of everyday street life in New York, she spent decades documenting residents of the city’s poorer neighbourhoods such as Lower East Side and Harlem. Levitt’s oeuvre stands out for her sense of dynamics and surrealistic sense of humour, and her employment of color photography was revolutionary.
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A Look Inside
From Walter Moser (Editor): Helen Levitt © Helen Levitt / Kehrer 2018. 
From Walter Moser (Editor): Helen Levitt © Helen Levitt / Kehrer 2018. 
From Walter Moser (Editor): Helen Levitt © Helen Levitt / Kehrer 2018. 
From Walter Moser (Editor): Helen Levitt © Helen Levitt / Kehrer 2018. 
From Walter Moser (Editor): Helen Levitt © Helen Levitt / Kehrer 2018.
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Specifics
Walter Moser (Editor): Helen Levitt (Kehrer, 2018) // Texts by Duncan Forbes, Astrid Mahler, Walter Moser, Christina Natlacen, Bert Rebhandl // Designed by Manuel Radde // Hardcover // 22 x 27 cm // 232 pages // 203 b/w and 34 color ills. Link.
