Photography
Helen Levitt, "Mexico City," 1941, printed later
- Item Number
- 52
- Estimated Value
- 600 USD
- Leading Bid
- 300 USD
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Helen Levitt (American, 1913-2009)
Mexico City, 1941, printed 1981
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on recto
Influenced by her contemporaries who had photographed Mexico City before her (Tina Modotti, Anton Bruehl, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Edward Weston), Helen Levitt spent several months there documenting the the city's rapid urbanization and traditional ways of life, then struggling to coexist.
Over half a century later, the photographs were published in the book Helen Levitt: Mexico City (1997) and this image served as the cover image.
About The Artist
Helen Levitt is one of the most important figures in contemporary photography. . For over 60 years, her quiet, poetic photographs made on the streets of the city she inhabited for most of her life inspired generations of photographers, students, collectors, curators, and lovers of art in general.
Levitt’s first major museum exhibition was at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943, and a second solo show, of color work only, was held there in 1974. Major retrospectives of her work have been held at several museums: first in 1991, jointly at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; in 1997 at the International Center for Photography in New York; and in 2001 at the Centre National la Photographie in Paris.
More recently, Helen Levitt was featured in three international shows: in 2007, Helen Levitt: Un Art de l'accident poetique at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris; in 2008, at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; and FOAM Museum Amsterdam.
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Please note: This print has a horizontal crease, approximately 1/2 inch in width, across the center of the image. There is cracking to the emulsion in the far right center, and far left center, approxiately 1/2 inch long in both locations.
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