#helen levitt
New York City 1942
Photo:Helen Levitt
Greeting at the Window (Circa 1940)
Photo:Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt, New York City, 1971 - 1981
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From Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” -
“A pair of wings, a different respiratory system, which enabled us to travel through space, would in no way help us, for if we visited Mars or Venus, keeping the same senses, they would clothe everything we could see with the same aspect as the things of the Earth. The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess new eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do, with great artists; with artists like these we do really fly from star to star.”
[From the Deep Massage Society]
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Greeting at the Window, 1940
Once called “the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time,” Helen Levitt gained wide renown in her prime for her street photography in New York City. Though best known for her black-and-white images, Levitt received two Guggenheim Fellowships to document New York with color photographs. She was also an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker.
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