The theatrics of the street in Helen Levitt’s photography

New York, ca. 1940. All images: Helen Levitt © Film Documents LLC, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, CologneHelen Levitt emerged as a photographer in Depression-era New York, where she lived and made the bulk of her work. She is best known for her theatrical photographs of the city, initially training her lens on Brooklyn where she was born, then neighbourhoods such...