Helen Levitt
(Brooklyn, New York, 1913 - 2009)
New York
c. 1940s
Gelatin silver print
7 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (18.8 x 25.7 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of Philip Perkis
2003.50
© Film Documents LLC, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
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Levitt lived in Yorkville, on New York’s Upper East Side, until the 1960s. She photographed almost exclusively in urban, poor neighborhoods. Her haunts included uptown German, Hungarian and Italian immigrant communities as well as Harlem, the center of black life. She also went to Spanish Harlem regularly and sometimes to the Lower East Side, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
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Gelatin Silver
Children's play
United States