Helen Levitt, New York, c. 1940, Gelatin Silver Print © Helen Levitt © Film Documents LLC, courtesy Zander Galerie, Cologne

Fotomuseum Winterthur is presenting a comprehensive retrospective of photographer Helen Levitt, bringing together her extensive body of work with works from her archive, which has only recently become accessible to the public.

More than 200 photographs spanning half a century, the documentary short film In the Street (1948), a projection of colour slides, and around 115 items of ephemera and archival material offer an insight into the breadth of her photographic work.

One of the defining voices of American photography in the 20th century, Helen Levitt (1913–2009) was born in Brooklyn and found her main motif in the streets of New York. In the 1930s she began observing urban life in Harlem and on the Lower East Side, witnessing all its spontaneity, poetry and inconsistencies.

A member of the Photo League, Levitt worked with Walker Evans and was influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson. She is regarded as one of the early pioneers of colour photography.

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