Helen Levitt

Background

Helen was born in New York City, New York, United States.

Education

From 1938 to 1939 Levitt studied with Walker Evans. In 1956 she studied at the Art Students League in New York City, New York, the United States. She graduated from it in 1957.

Career

Helen is a freelance, her work has appeared in Time, New York Post, Fortune, and Harper's Bazaar, among other periodicals.

Levitt made two films, The Quiet One (1949), with James Agee, and In the Street (1952), with Agee and Janice Loeb.

Achievements

• Publications Monograph: A Way of Seeing,1965 Anthologies: The Photograph Collector's Guide, Lee D. Witkin & Barbara London, 1979; Mirrors and Windows, John Szarkowski, 1978; Faces: A Narrative History of the Portrait in Photography, Ben Maddow, 1977; The Magic Image, Cecil Beaton & Gail Buckland, 1975; Looking at Photographs, John Szarkowski, 1973; The Family of Man, Edward Steichen, ed., 1955; The History of Photography, Beaumont Newhall, 1949 Catalogs: Helen Levitt, 1980 (Sidney Jams Gall.: NYC); Curators
  
  Choice: Contemporary American Photography, 1979 (Venezia La Fotografia: Venice, Italy); The Target Collection of American Photography, 1977 (Mus. of Fine Arts: Houston, Tex.); Harlem on My Mind, 1968 (Metro. Mus. of Art: NYC); Photography in the 20th Century, 1967 (Natl. Gall, of Canada: Ottawa, Ontario ); Guggenheim Fellows in Photography, 1966 (Philadelphia Coll. of Arts: Pa.); "A Way of Seeing," Photography in America, 1850-1965, 1965 (Yale Univ. Art Gall.: New Haven, Conn.); Contemporary American Photography,
  
  1953 (Natl. Mus. of Mod. Art: Tokyo); Photography Mid-Century, 1950 (Los Angeles County Mus.). Periodicals: "The City's Lively Beat," Lloyd Fonvielle, no. 81, 1978, "New York City," Ben Maddow, 19:4, 1975, Aperture; "Women," Anne Tucker, Feb 1972, "A Portfolio of Photographs by the John Simon Guggenheim Fellows," Allan Porter, ed., Apr 1966, Camera; U.S. Camera Annual, 1971; Modern Photography, Mar 1967; "Helen Levitt's Photographs: Children of New York and Mexico," Edna Bennett, U.S. Camera, 6:4, May 1943.

Views

Helen's small-camera street photography was influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson.