Helen Levitt: Mexico City - Hardcover
A collection of sixty-seven photographs of the urban and semiurban areas of Mexico city taken in 1941
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American photographer Helen Levitt--renowned for her honest, compelling shots of early industrial New York City--spent a good part of 1941 photographing Mexico City. The slices of life depicted in this collection of her work present a vision of a city becoming. Levitt focuses her acutely urban sensibilities on a city whose increased industrialization after World War Two brought tremendous social and economic change. Factories in central urban areas required people to leave rural homes for regular work and promises of "progress." Levitt's photographs frankly depict the juxtaposed traditions of rural life and industry for this new working class: women in homespun garments board trains, poor children dry machine-made clothes on cacti, and shawl-wrapped peasants carry daily newspapers. These beautifully printed images shed visionary light on modern Mexico City.
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Helen Levitt lives and photographs in New York City. She received the International Center of Photography's Life Achievement Award in May 1997. James Oles is curator of the traveling exhibition of this work and is assistant professor of art history at Wellesley College. He has lived in Mexico City since 1991.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0393045498
- ISBN 13 9780393045499
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages141
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