Helen Levitt
(Brooklyn, New York, 1913 - 2009)
New York
c. 1940 (printed later)
Gelatin silver print
12 5/8 x 8 3/4 in. (32.0 x 22.4 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Knight Purchase Fund for Photographic Media
2009.20
© Film Documents LLC, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
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Urban activist and author Jane Jacobs wrote in 1962 that she perceived an order on the city streets, one “all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city, and liken it to the dance.”
Keywords
Children's playPhotography
Black and White
United States
Dance
New York