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Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt (Signed First Edition)
by LEVITT, Helen
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- Signed
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1576872521
- ISBN 13
- 9781576872529
- Seller
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Wadsworth, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Powerhouse Books, 2005. First edition and first printing. Small oblong hardcover. 120 pages. The first real extended look at Levitt's work in color photography. Includes 109 four-color images with an afterword by John Szarkowski. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Levitt on the title page. While Levitt is clearly known for her black and white photography as realized in her seminal book "A Way of Seeing" this book clearly shows she was equally comfortable shooting color photographs.
Synopsis
Helen Levitt (1913-2009) had her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1943. Levitt’s photographs appeared in Edward Steichen’s landmark 1955 show The Family of Man and in more recent exhibitions of great importance, including MoMA’s Photography Until Now and the National Gallery of Art’s On the Art of Fixing a Shadow in Washington, D.C., both celebrating the invention of photography. She has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Levitt’s reputation as New York City’s master street photographer was further cemented in 2001 when her photographs were featured in the opening sequence of Ken Burns’ acclaimed PBS documentary series, New York . The author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling monographs Crosstown, Here and There , and Slide Show (powerHouse Books, 2001, 2004, and 2005), Levitt lived and worked in New York City, naturally. John Szarkowski is director emeritus of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and was the director of the department from 1962 to 1991, in which time he oversaw more than one hundred exhibitions and the inauguration of MoMA’s photography collection galleries, and edited and contributed writing to various publications. His exhibitions include New Documents, Mirrors and Windows, Photography until Now, and retrospectives of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, and Eugène Atget . Szarkowski is the recipient of the International Center of Photography Infinity Awards for Writing and for Lifetime Achievement, the Royal Photographic Society Progress Medal, and the National Arts Club Gold Medal for Photography, to name a few. He has taught at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale. Szarkowski returned to picture making in 1991, and has exhibited his work at Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and the Cleveland Museum of Art. He lives in New York.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 197800
- Title
- Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- LEVITT, Helen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1576872521
- ISBN 13
- 9781576872529
- Publisher
- Powerhouse Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Photography
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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About Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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