- Artist/Maker:
- Helen Levitt
- Bio:
- American, 1913-2009
- Title:
- New York
- Date:
- c. 1940
- Medium:
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions:
- 7 1/2 × 10 in. (19.1 × 25.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Lillian Gordon Bequest
- Accession Number:
- 2000-56
- Copyright:
- © Estate of Helen Levitt, Courtesy Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Not On View
Though Levitt never joined the League as an official member, she attended meetings and twice exhibited her work there in the 1940s. Photo Notes said of her images of children playing in the streets that she “detects, with radar sensitivity, the heartbeat of the child’s world.”
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.