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In The Streets, A View of New York Through The Lens Of One Woman
Helen Levitt wrote stories through her camera lens
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Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images. — Helen Levitt
Have you seen the photographs of Helen Levitt?
Up until this week, I hadn’t.
My life is now better, richer for having seen some of her work. If you aren’t familiar with the work of Helen Levitt, you are, sadly, not alone.
“When you think about Walker Evans or Henri Cartier-Bresson, they’re all really famous and Helen Levitt is not,” Walter Moser, Chief Curator for photography in the Albertina Museum, Vienna, said. “And of course, that’s also how art history is written. Very often women…
