Levitt, Helen. A way of seeing. Photographs of New York, with an essay by James Agee. New York, The Viking Press (1965). Quer-8° (19 x 23 cm.). [4] Bl., 78 S. mit 51 Duotone-Tafeln. Illustr. Orig.-Kartonumschlag.

Auer 447. Koetzle, Fotografen A-Z 234. Lederman/Yatskevich 167. Parr/Badger II, 252. Roth, The Book of 101 Books 178 f. Roth, The Open Book 214 f. – „Special Museum of Modern Art (softcover) Edition“. – „Published in 1965, Helen Levitt’s celebrated A Way ofSeeing is a record of an earlier time, capturing New York City street scenes from the late 1930s and 1940s. Originally planned for publication in 1946 by Reynolds and Hitchcock, the project was infinitely delayed after one of the firm’s partners died. It was picked up again in 1964 by The Viking Press and published a year later, though by this point James Agee, who wrote the book’s introductory essay, had died. A Way of Seeing documents minor-key human drama, children playing and the vitality of life on the streets of underserved communities before the postwar “urban renewal.” These photographs represent Levitt’s earliest decades as a photographer in the working-class neighborhoods of Spanish Harlem and the Lower East Side. The book’s design, by Marvin Hoshino, is elegant and restrained, giving each black-and-white photograph central placement on the page, allowing the subtle drama and careful composition of each frame to unfold on its own. Woven into a fluid narrative through their sequencing in the book, these pictures show children’s playfulness with revealing immediacy and capture subtleties of the adults’ interactions, as well as the tenderness of gazes and choreographies of bodies in urban spaces“ (P. V. Kupfer in Lederman/Yatskevich). – Edges slightly rubbed, a very good copy.

• Kategorie: Photographie
• Schlagwörter: New York · Street photography · USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erstausgabe
• Bestellnummer: 109146BB

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