Monks begin crafting sand mandala Sep 3, 2008
Tenzin, left, Geshe Kelsang and Geshe Jampa Norbu, Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in Mundgod, India, work on a sand mandala Tuesday in the Helen Levitt Art Gallery in Morningside College's Eppley Fine Arts building ... Rick Wollman, a spokesman for the college, said in a news release that the public can watch the monks as they create the mandala from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in the Helen Levitt Art Gallery located in the Eppley Fine Arts Building on the Morningside campus. (Sioux City Journal)
Buzz Foto Debuts Celebrity Paparazzi Photo Retrospective In Los Angeles Jan 15, 2008
"Consider Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Helen Levitt; each took photos of individuals without permission and set out to sell them. Their iconic photographs imitate the paparazzi style and today hang in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Our Buzz Foto photographs have the potential to hang next to those great masters.". Henry Flores, co-owner for Buzz Foto and a former engineer, said, "We're pleased to host a first-ever gallery showing of paparazzi art. All of our photographers... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Rule Breakers Sep 8, 2007
" The show has finally made its return, this time with nearly 70 artists featured in Dangerous Women Two at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor through Oct. 6. An opening reception will be held Sept. 8 from 2 to 5 p.m. Among the more than 100 dangerous women who made Ms. Fagan's tri-state list are writer and poet Dorothy Parker, Precisionist painter Elsie Driggs, printmaker Minna Citron and sculptor Dorothea Schwartz-Greenbaum. The show is dedicated to four dangerous... (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
'Shutterbugs': Chancellor Livingston exhibits student photos Jun 1, 2007
Photos by Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, among others, were observed and analyzed by the class. Students also studied the works of Billy Collins, Langston Hughes, and other poets of distinction. (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
Celebrity Photo Agency Develops 'Paparazzi As An Art Form' May 9, 2007
Elterman compares Flores and staff to Henri Cartier Bresson, Walker Evans and Helen Levitt. "Bresson would shadow his subjects and wait for the right moment. Evans would descend the subway with a Leica under his overcoat to photograph life in a crowded subway in the greatest city in the world, New York. Evans trained Helen Levitt with his undercover craft; she then went on to produce her best work in the streets of Harlem in the mid-forties with friend and poet, James Agee.". (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Streets' focuses on photography Nov 2, 2006
Helen Levitt worked with Evans at the time, but she developed a more lyrical style, focusing on groups of children at play. There is a tenderness in her black-and-white photos, especially in one of a young girl dressed shabbily and holding a white flower. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Sandra Phillips on where to find the best modern photography Oct 2, 2006
It was very much like what Helen Levitt photographed. On her new neighborhood. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tana Hoban, 88; Author of Children's Books Used Her Photographs as Illustrations Feb 20, 2006
Her photography was included in a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1949 along with works by such noteworthy photographers as Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange and Helen Levitt. Hoban also was featured in the landmark 1955 exhibition "The Family of Man," curated by renowned photographer Edward Steichen. (LA Times, CA)
