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Hardcover binding with light grey linen with tip-on image 144 tri-toned b&w photographic plates.Crosstown is the most comprehensive and best printed monograph devoted to this master photographer. In pioneering pictures of 1930s and 1940s Harlem an innovative color series completed in 1960 and black-and-white images from the 1980s and 1990s
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Capturing the diverse culture and street life of New York with pioneering photographs, from 1930s Harlem to black-and-white images from the 1980s and 1990s, a stunning collection pays homage to this acclaimed photographer.
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Seven Decades of New York Captured in Candid but Thoughtful Photographs; The only complete retrospective of this icon of American photography, selected by the artist herself and featuring many never-before-reproduced photographs! Confirming her importance as one of the 20th century's greatest photographers, this collection of images, the most extensive of her career, spans more than sixty years of urban living in New York. From her iconic shots in Harlem in the '30s and '40, to her stunning colour series from 1959-1960 and her surprisingly contemporary work from the '80s, Crosstown showcases most of Levitt's classic images, as well as several little-known works that will surprise and delight even the most devout Levitt fans. Revealing both her development as an artist and the evolution of New York, this long-awaited collection is a theatrical vision of a world that is always changing.
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- PublisherpowerHouse Books,U.S.
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1576871037
- ISBN 13 9781576871034
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW condition, published by powerHouse Books in 2001, hardcover, 192 pages, 48 four-color and 144 tritone illustrations, no dust jacket as issued. Publisher: Out of print.Since the mid-1930s, Helen Levitt has photographed life on the streets of New York, capturing the pulse of the city at moments when sidewalk life becomes an urban portrait. Crosstown is the most comprehensive monograph devoted to this master photographer. In pioneering pictures of 1930s and 1940s Harlem, an innovative color series completed in 1960, and black-and-white images from the 1980s and 1990s, the book reveals the changes in New York street culture as well as the evolution of Levitt s photographic eye. Encountering Levitt s pictures, taken mostly between 1936 and the present, mostly around Manhattan, is like taking off your sunglasses, or cleaning your spectacles, or just blinking, which is only appropriate, since so many of them seem to have been taken in a blink, and to picture something that will be gone, that was gone, a blink after it was taken. These photographs radically readjust our visual fine-tuning to remind us of how rapidly everything changes, of how large a fraction of what we see won t exist in its present form only a heartbeat from now. It s impossible not to notice that the beautiful gypsy kid, caught in mid-motion in the doorway of his apartment, was disappearing even as his portrait was being taken . The photographs in Crosstown make the difficult look easy. They seem so effortlessly right that it s only when you think for two seconds, or recall all the bad documentary photography that you ve seen, or pause to marvel at the high wire act they re performing even as they focus steadfastly on the ground, that you realize how frighteningly simple it would be to get all of this terribly wrong, to make the children cute and the old ladies darling. Helen Levitt s work is never sentimental, it never estheticizes or objectifies, never turns its subjects into art objects, never distorts them into noble heroes of poverty and desolation; it is never falsely, preemptively elegiac or nostalgic. You never feel the artist calling attention to herself or to the breadth and compassion of her vision. Everything is happening too quickly and too interestingly for anything remotely resembling self-conscious artiness, or narcissism. Seller Inventory # 223
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