Helen Levitt est une photographe née en 1913 à New York où elle vit encore actuellement.
Depuis les années 40, Helen Levitt photographie les rues de Spanish Harlem, Brooklyn, East Village, Lower East Side et "Gardment District" de Manhattan. Pour ses premiers clichés noir et blanc elle utilise un appareil photographique 35 mm en mains libres, enregistrant des scènes de rue, des dessins griffonnés à la craie sur les murs et des d'enfants jouant dans les rues. Bien que privilégiant une approche documentaire, dans le sillage de Walker Evans et Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt, par la fluidité de son style, laisse transparaître dans ses oeuvres la fraîcheur et la spontanéité de la vie quotidienne.
En 1960 le Guggenheim lui permet de produire ses premiers travaux couleur. Reprenant ses thèmes de toujours, Helen Levitt investit alors ses clichés de teintes pâles et saturées. Ici elle ne s'intéresse pas à la couleur pour elle-même pas plus qu'à son pouvoir de séduction mais à l'idée que celle-ci pourrait soutenir cette impression de vie qui caractérise son travail. Il y a chez elle comme des accents argotiques qui valorisent par inadvertance la justesse de son regard.
Helen Levitt a réalisé deux films (In the Street en 1944 et The Silent one en 1946) et travaillé au montage de plusieurs autres.
Actualité La photographe américaine Helen Levitt est décédée La photographe américaine Helen Levitt est décédée dimanche dans son sommeil à l'âge de 95 ans. Pendant des décennies, cette artiste a su saisir la spontanéité de la vie quotidienne des habitants des quartiers modestes de New York.
Sa mort a été annoncée par son frère Bill Levitt dans l'édition de lundi du quotidien New York Times. Née le 31 août 1913, cette photographe autodidacte a d'abord immortalisé les dessins que réalisaient des enfants dans les rues. Elle a ensuit travaillé comme photographe documentaire pour la presse, oeuvrant en noir et blanc jusque dans les années 60, privilégiant la couleur par la suite. Parmi ses maîtres, Helen Levitt citait le França...Livre « Visionnaires, les plus grands photographes » aux éditions La Martinière Qu'est-ce qui définit le photographe si ce n'est son oeil ? Les 75 artistes du livre « Visionnaire : les plus grands photographes » ont en commun le fait d'avoir réussi à capter un monde en train de changer radicalement. Et si ce n'était pas un mais différents regards croisés sur leur environnement ? Regarder dans plusieurs directions à la fois. C'est ce qui fît leur talent.
« Qui est capable d'anticipation, qui a l'intuition de l'avenir » : c'est en ces termes que le dictionnaire Larousse définit le terme « visionnaire ». Effectivement, visionnaires, ces 75 photographes l'étaient tous. Il faut être extrêmement lucide, ...Vente Sale - Phillips de Pury & Company
New York - Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce the highlights of the forthcoming Photographs sale on Saturday 9 April 2011, to be held at its Park Avenue location.
“We are looking forward to bringing the Photographs preview to our flagship space at 57 Street and Park Avenue. The uptown location will be a fresh setting to showcase our exhibition, comprised of a diverse selection of classic and contemporary photographs to fulfill the needs of our international clientele.” Vanessa Kramer, Worldwide Director of Photographs.
Highlights of the New York Photographs sale include: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #278, 1993, estimated at $200,000-$300,000, exemplifying the famed photographer’s poignant critiques of the fashion industry, juxtaposed by one of the most revered images i...Vente Villa Grisebach, Berlin: Auction Modern and Contemporary Photographs
Now online:
Catalogue No. 159: Modern and Contemporary Photographs
www.villa-grisebach.de/en/catalogues/
Auction on Thursday, 27 November 2008, at 3 p.m.
Viewing from 22 to 26 November in Berlin, Fasanenstrasse 73.
Saturday - Tuesday, 10 a.m. - 6.30 p.m.
Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
...Vente Photographs auction
A mid-season Photographs sale composed of high-quality 20th and 21st Century works on January 31, 2008.
Viewing 25 - 30 January
25-26 January, 10am - 5pm
27 January, 12pm - 5pm
28-30 January, 10am - 5pm
Reception 24 January 6-8pm
Please view our Photographs catalogue online and read more about the sale on our website www.phillipsdepury.com.
...Festival CONTACT, Toronto Photography Festival 2012
CONTACT is an annual festival of photography in Toronto, during the month of May, with over 1000 local, national and international artists exhibiting at almost 200 venues. Founded as a not-for-profit organization 16 years ago, and now a charitable organization, the festival is devoted to celebrating, and fostering the art and profession of photography. It stimulates excitement and discussion among a diverse audience that has grown to over 1.8 million. CONTACT is the largest photography event in the world, and a premiere cultural event in Canada.
Stimulated by the renewed global interest in street photography, this year’s festival explores the theme “Public” in a series of exhibitions, site-specific installations, and events across the city. Drawing attention to social and political issues tha...Exposition The exhibition PORTRAITS Press release
Portraits. The Fundación MAPFRE Photography Collection can be seen at Fundación MAPFRE’s Sala Recoletos exhibition space in Madrid between 22 June and 3 September 2017. Based on works from the Fundación’s holdings of photography, this exhibition presents a survey of the history of photography with the guiding theme of the portrait, one of the most dynamic genres in the visual arts and a key practice within photography from the origins of the medium.
THE COLLECTION
Nine years ago Fundación MAPFRE launched its collection of photography, an initiative that now coexists with its already well-established drawings collection. The result has been to complement our exhibition programme and contribute to institutional collecting in a way that we considered both necess...Exposition «Pairs and Apples» by Helen Levitt Press Release -
Laurence Miller Gallery presents HELEN LEVITT: PAIRS AND APPLES from June 14 – July 21. The show highlights Levitt’s unique gift for capturing the way people communicate through body language, with special emphasis on one of her perennial interests: pairs of people sharing a moment in the streets and on the stoops of her native New York City. Helen had a singularly lyrical eye and, whether it’s two children dancing in the street or two nuns perched at the bank of the East River, her work never fails to show the playfulness that is at the heart of human interaction. Not surprisingly, Helen reveals this in animals as well, joyfully sharing two New Hampshire pigs in a barnyard kiss, from 1986.
This 30 print show surveys these themes across her six decade career, featuring both her cla...Exposition Exhibition : « There was a whole collection made » in Chicago Smart Museum's press release
An extraordinary collection of 830 photographic works spanning from 1844 to 2012, bequested to the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, forms the basis of an expansive new exhibition, There was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman, September 22–December 30, 2016. The exhibition of more than 300 works is curated by Laura Letinsky, Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and the College at the University of Chicago, and herself an acclaimed photographer, and Jessica Moss, Smart Museum Curator of Contemporary Art. There was a whole collection made officially opens with a free public reception at the Smart Museum, 5550 S.
There was a whole collection made mines the Estate of Lester and Betty Guttman’s 2014 gift of over eight hund...Exposition Exposition : « In the Street » d'Helen Levitt En contrepoint aux expositions du festival Rose Béto sur l’avènement des graffeurs new-yorkais photographié par Martha Cooper et Henry Chalfant, le Château d’Eau présente 2 juin au 18 septembre une sélection de l’œuvre d’Helen Levitt, photographe américaine de l’après-guerre qui sans jamais avoir recherché la célébrité est reconnue aujourd’hui comme maître de la « street photography ». Ses photos de rues réalisées dans les quartiers pauvres de New York, sa ville natale ont inspiré et marqué de nombreux photographes, de conservateurs de musées et de collectionneurs.
Helen Levitt abandonne tôt ses études et, dès 1931, elle ap...Exposition Exhibition : « Past + Present » at Kahmann Gallery In Past + Present, Kahmann Gallery combines vintage and contemporary work in a unique way, where the works interact with and enhance each other, to give a complete story of photography and to show the extraordinary nature of the work of our artists.
Kahmann Gallery zal vintage en hedendaagse fotografie in de tentoonstelling Past + Present op unieke wijze bijeenbrengen, waarbij de verschillende werken een bijzondere wisselwerking creëren en elkaar versterken. Past and Present verbeeldt een volledig verhaal van fotografie en toont de unieke aard van het werk van onze fotografen.
© Maura Sullivan, Noah, 2007
To add to this major moment, Kahmann Gallery has collaborated with a number of our artists. They have produced a special edition of one of their works in celebration of the ten-year anniversary....Exposition Exhibition : « Past & Present - 10 Year Anniversary » of the Kahmann Gallery Save the date: on Saturday July 4th Kahmann Gallery will celebrate its 10 year anniversary with the opening of a special exhibition featuring all photographers of the gallery. Vintage and contemporary photography will come together in this unique exposition.
Kahmann Gallery, started in 2005, will celebrate its 10 year anniversary with a special something from a superb range of its photographers.
© Jeroen Toirkens
Kahmann Gallery will offer its customers a series of photos in edition 25 (of each photographer we represent one image) for a fixed amount of only €450,- per photo (print only incl. BTW/VAT and excl. framing). The works are signed, numbered and labeled as 'Special Edition 10 Years Kahmann Gallery’.
If you're interested in buying one of these beauties, don’t hesitate...Exposition Exposition : New York à Les Douches La Galerie Nous avons le plaisir de présenter New York, une exposition collective avec des photographies de Berenice Abbott, Tom Arndt, Arlene Gottfried, Ernst Haas, Helen Levitt, Vivian Maier, Ray Metzker, Louis Stettner et Sabine Weiss. L’exposition présente des œuvres qui, par de multiples points de vue, rendent compte des spécificités de cette ville qui a toujours fasciné les photographes. Qu’ils y soient nés, s’y soient installés ou l’aient juste fréquentée régulièrement, chacun des artistes ici réunis propose un regard singulier, chaleureux, vibrant ou décalé, s’attachant à l’architecture, aux gens, à cette frénésie qui emplit cette métropole hors du com...Exposition Helen Levitt In the Streets: Photographing Urban Spaces
For more than seventy years, Helen Levitt (1913-2009) used her camera to capture fresh and unstudied views of everyday life on the streets of New York City. Roaming through the Lower East Side, Spanish Harlem and other urban neighborhoods, Levitt began her career equipped with a handheld Leica with a right-angle viewfinder that allowed her to remain unobtrusive as she documented life in the city. Only a few years after Levitt took up photography, the Museum of Modern Art selected her work for inclusion in the inaugural exhibition of the museum’s photography department in 1940. Levitt’s meteoric rise within the world of photography was affirmed when MoMA subsequently honored her with a coveted solo exhibition in 1943.
Levitt’s photographs, first in black and white and later in color, document neig...Exposition Thirty Years Thirty-One Photographers
Over these past three decades, the Laurence Miller Gallery has hosted approximately 250 exhibitions, and the list of these shows reflects the evolution of photography from the classic black-and-white medium that dominated much of the 20th Century, to today's large-format color contemporary works, as well as video. The gallery takes great pride in having given many emerging photographers their first one-person exhibitions in New York City, as well as having presented many of photography's greatest masters.
Thirty Years Thirty-One Photographers offers to both the connoisseur and the novice collector many of the most famous images shown along with rare prints from the Gallery's private collection. Here is a sampling:
Peter Bialobrzeski
Paradise Now #32, 2008
40 x 50 inch Type-C print
Editio...Exposition Private Dramas, Public Dreams: The Street Photographs of Helen Levitt & Friends
This exhibition features more than forty vintage photographs by the acclaimed street photographer and filmmaker Helen Levitt. Playing in the gallery is her rarely seen documentary, In the Street, a celebrated film that is essentially her photographs ‘come to life.’ The exhibition also includes WPA graphic prints from the Harn Collection, alongside photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Walter Rosenblum.
...Exposition Street Photography Selected Works from Six Decades
In the context of the 4th European Month of Photography Berlin, which is presented for the first time as a themed event, the Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß is pleased to announce the exhibition “Street Photography. Selected Works from Six Decades”.
The exhibition centers around vintage prints which document life on the streets through the decades. This wide overview begins in Europe in the early 1930s with selected black and white photographs from Ilse Bing, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Cartier-Bresson and others.
American Street Photography of the 1940s to the 1970s is represented by works from Harry Callahan, Louis Fauer, Andreas Feininger, Robert Frank, Leon Levinstein, Ray K. Metzker, Erika Stone and Weegee. The exhibition closes with color prints of iconic examples of Street Photography, such as ...Exposition Helen Levitt - New York Photographs Kahmann Gallery is proud and privileged to open her doors for the first time with the world famous work of New York photographer Helen Levitt.
95-years old Helen Levitt is still living in New York, where she worked as a photographer for 70 years. She started her career observing and photographing children in the poorer neighbourhoods, in search for the poetry of daily life. Levitt works like a choreographer; the streets are her theatre, the people her actors. Her photos resemble small plays in which movement, rhythm, form and colour contemplate each other. She photographs daily life in an inventive and humorous way, occasions casual for the eye in which she manages to find a rare beauty. Her sharp eye and ability to respond quickly is unique: catching the right moment is all determining. She shares this talent with fr...Exposition Helen Levitt SOHO Building 2136 1st Ave Wynwood Art District Miami Florida www.artfairsinc.com/photomiami/2006 6-10 December 2006 Gallery f5,6 presents an exhibition of colour and black and white photographs of one of the most renowned American photographers and filmmakers of the 20th century: Helen Levitt (born 1913, Brooklyn New York). In 1943 the Museum of Modern Art, New York had Levitt's first exhibition. At Dokumenta X her work was rediscovered in a contemporary context. Levitt is perhaps best known for her street photography of the 1930's and 1940's depicting the Lower East Side and Harlem. For Levitt the street acts as a stage. Her work should be seen in the context of the 1930's and it's great interest in the city as a vision for the future. This directly correlates to ideas inhabiting the surrealist thought of the time. ...Modifier l'image