The MOCA Makeover Nov 20, 2009
In one area, black and white photographs taken by Helen Levitt in New York City in 1942 capture scenes such as children in Halloween masks. They hang near a hulking sculpture of black painted wood that resembles a piece of factory equipment fused with cabinetry. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Susan Hiller: 'The J. Street Project' Aug 9, 2009
It includes several portraits by Richard Avedon, whose work is also on view in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's concurrent retrospective, and several little-known images by Helen Levitt and Diane Arbus. But the real diversion here lies as much in discerning the undeclared logic of Fraenkel's arrangement of the pictures as in individual pieces. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Amazing Photographs of 1970s Harlem Jun 16, 2009
Since I liked the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, and Aaron Siskind, I was delighted to see in the streets of Harlem many scenes evocative of the ones these masters had captured: children jumping on discarded mattresses and opening fire hydrants to spray friends and passers-by alike. Sometimes I photographed weddings as they spilled out onto the streets. (Slate)
New York's own photographer Apr 11, 2009
Helen Levitt, photographer of New York, died on March 29th, aged 95. Estate of Helen Levitt ... OVER the course of her long life, many people wanted to ask Helen Levitt about her photographs. (The Economist)
Photographer Helen Levitt dead at 95 Apr 1, 2009
NEW YORK - Helen Levitt, a giant of 20th century photography whose scenes of New York City street life provide a window into a vanished era, has died. She was 95. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Helen Levitt, 95; captured images of NYC street life Apr 1, 2009
Helen Levitt was once described as "the supreme poet-photographer of the streets and people of New York." Her images were taken primarily in Spanish Harlem, Yorkville, and the Lower East Side ... Estate of Helen Levitt) By Globe Staff / March 31, 2009 ... Helen Levitt, a master of street photography whose images of children playing in New York during the late 1930s and early '40s are classics of 20th-century photography, died Sunday at her home in Manhattan. (Boston Globe)
