Barcelona is hosting a retrospective dedicated to the American artist, who was a pioneer of street photography and color. She transformed the humblest settings into compositions that are full of meani ...

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 ...

I’m in Paris now, but for a week I was among the few Americans in London. That said, totems of America were plentiful. I saw two very good exhibitions on American artists. I wrote about the Helen ...

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 ...

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