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PublisherpowerHouse Books

ISBN-101576871657

ISBN-139781576871652

eBay Product ID (ePID)2458617

Product Key Features

Book TitleHere and there

Number of Pages120 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicIndividual Photographers / General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)

Publication Year2004

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Photography

AuthorAdam Gopnik

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight26.9 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-193057

Dewey Edition21

Photographed byLevitt, Helen

Dewey Decimal779/.99747/1

Synopsis..".Helen Levitt is one of the living treasures of New York, widely admired for her devotion to candid street photography in a style influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans... Her] vignettes of domestic, daily city life, taken on the Lower East Side and in Harlem, are a form of poetry that evokes the fortitude and forbearance of New Yorkers past and present." --Andy Grundberg, The New York Times Book Review Selected as the best photography book of 2001 by The New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice , and Photo-Eye , among others, Helen Levitt's magnum opus Crosstown (powerHouse Books 2001) all but sold out of its one and only, six-thousand-copy print run. Here and There is Levitt's new collection of personally-selected images a charming monograph featuring over ninety never-before-published photographs, including portraits of her friends James Agee and Walker Evans. The recently discovered photographs featured in Here and There represent Levitt's own favorite images selected from her immense private collection. Shot over seven decades, Here and There reveals Levitt's acute sense of how cosmetically street life has changed--and how substantially it has remained the same. The sheer determination of this inimitable photographer to walk the streets of her beloved city for this length of time and take pictures of what she saw, reaffirms her unofficial status as New York City's visual poet laureate. " Levitt's photographs] have the quality of frozen street-corner conversation: she went out, saw something wonderful, came home to tell you all about it, and then, frustrated, said, 'You had to be there, ' and you realize, looking at the picture, that you were." --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "...Helen Levitt is one of the living treasures of New York, widely admired for her devotion to candid street photography in a style influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans... Her] vignettes of domestic, daily city life, taken on the Lower East Side and in Harlem, are a form of poetry that evokes the fortitude and forbearance of New Yorkers past and present." --Andy Grundberg, The New York Times Book Review Selected as the best photography book of 2001 by The New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice , and Photo-Eye , among others, Helen Levitt's magnum opus Crosstown (powerHouse Books 2001) all but sold out of its one and only, six-thousand-copy print run. Here and There is Levitt's new collection of personally-selected images a charming monograph featuring over ninety never-before-published photographs, including portraits of her friends James Agee and Walker Evans. The recently discovered photographs featured in Here and There represent Levitt's own favorite images selected from her immense private collection. Shot over seven decades, Here and There reveals Levitt's acute sense of how cosmetically street life has changed--and how substantially it has remained the same. The sheer determination of this inimitable photographer to walk the streets of her beloved city for this length of time and take pictures of what she saw, reaffirms her unofficial status as New York City's visual poet laureate. " Levitt's photographs] have the quality of frozen street-corner conversation: she went out, saw something wonderful, came home to tell you all about it, and then, frustrated, said, 'You had to be there, ' and you realize, looking at the picture, that you were." --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, Selected as the best photography book of 2001 by The New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice and photoeye, among others, Helen Levitt's magnum opus Crosstown received impressive critical acclaim and achieved extraordinary commercial success. Continuing in this tradition, Here and There features 90 never-before-published photographs, including portraits of her friends JAmes Agee and Walker Evans. Shot over seven decades, Levitt's unofficial status as New York City's visual poet laureate has never been so visibly clear.

LC Classification NumberTR659.8.L49 2003