| Abstract: | Abstract Helen Levitt was born in 1913. After her initial success in 1943 with a one-person exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (and the articles that came out on that occasion) she was held in high esteem, and continued to be exhibited at the Modern but was not known nationally except to a community mainly of photographers and friends. The publication of A Way of Seeing in 1965 was followed by a second edition in 1981 and a third edition in 1989,1 in the course of which her work was gradually to become better known through the general growth of photographic interest, and through her consequent inclusion in gallery exhibitions and publications.2 |
