Selected Group Exhibitions
1952 Helen Levitt and Frederick Sommer; Institute of
Design, Chicago, Ilinois
1955 The Family of Man; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1976 One Hundred Master Photographs; Museum of Mod-
ern Art, New York, New York
1978 New Standpoints: Photography 1940–1955; Museum of
Modern Art, New York, New York
1982 Color as Form; George Eastman House, Interna-
tional Museum of Photography, Rochester, New
York
1985 The New York School: Photography 1935–1963, Parts I
and II; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1986 Photographs from the Permanent Collection; Metropo-
litan Museum of Art, New York, New York
1988 Convulsive Beauty; Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, New York
1989 On the Art of Fixing a Shadow; National Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C.
Photography Until Now; Museum of Modern Art,
New York, New York
1995 American Photography, 1890–1965; Museum of Mod-
ern Art, New York, New York
2000 Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the Inter-
national Center of Photography Collection; Inter-
national Center of Photography, New York, New
YorkSelected Works
The Quiet One(film), 1949
In The Street(film), 1952
A Way of Seeing, 1965
Photographers on Photographers, 1966
In the Street: Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York
City, 1938–1948, 1987
Helen Levitt: Mexico City, 1997
Crosstown, 2001Further Reading
Mossin, Andrew. ‘‘Agee and the Photographer’s Art.’’
Apertureno. 100 (Fall 1985) : 73–75.
Phillips, Sandra S.Helen Levitt. San Francisco, CA: San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991.
———. ‘‘Helen Levitt’s Cropping.’’History of Photogra-
phyv. 17 (Spring 1993): 121–125.
Squiers, Carol. ‘‘The Unseen Helen Levitt: A Few Words in
Private.’’American Photovol. 3 (May/June 1992): 14.
Strauss, David Levi. ‘‘Helen Levitt.’’Artforum International
vol. 36 (Oct. 1997): 97.Helen Levitt, Three Kids in Masks on Stoop, NYC, 1940, Gelatin Silver Print.
[Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco]
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