Manhattan Transit: The Subway Photographs of Helen Levitt

by Helen Levitt

Humanist snapshots of New York City subway passengers, from famed street photographer Helen Levitt

In 1938 Helen Levitt (1913-2009) accompanied Walker Evans on a project to photograph passengers on the New York subway. Soon she was taking her own pictures. More empathetic and informal than Evans', Levitt's finest photographs are the product of her willingness to participate as a fellow citizen, not as a photographer setting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3960981228
• ISBN13: 9783960981220
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.6" x 8.4"