Main entry:

Levitt, Helen, photographer.

Title & Author:

Helen Levitt : Mexico City / with an essay by James Oles.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Center for Documentary Studies ; New York, New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [1997]
Verona, Italy : Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
©1997

Description:

141 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm

Notes:
"A DoubleTake book."
"This book complements the traveling exhibition Mexico City 1941: Photographs by Helen Levitt, which premiered at the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, from November 1997 to January 1998, and then was exhibited at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University from March to May 1998." --Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139).
Helen Levitt's other city -- The photographs -- La otra ciudad de Helen Levitt.
Text in English and Spanish.

Summary:

"In 1941, the American photographer Helen Levitt spent several months in Mexico, photographing the capital city and its inhabitants. With neither sentimentalism nor romanticism and working almost exclusively in urban and semiurban areas of the city, she confronted the conflicts and juxtapositions that announced Mexico's arrival into the modern world, and she did so with compelling force and dry wit. Her images show scenes in Chapultepec Park, the streets around the colonial center of the city, and the pulquerias and working-class districts on the periphery. Today, more than half a century later, Helen Levitt is recognized as one of America's preeminent photographers. For this book, she has reexamined old negatives and vintage prints and chosen sixty-seven pictures, most of which have never been exhibited or published before. They present a prophetic vision of a changing city, a vision that helps us decipher the Mexico City of today."-- Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0393045498
9780393045499

Subject:

Pobres México Ciudad de México Trabajos pictóricos.
Travel
Alltag
Bildband
Mexico City (Mexico) Pictorial works.
Mexico City (Mexico) Description and travel.
Ciudad de México (México) Descripción Trabajos pictóricos.
Mexico Mexico City
Mexiko

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Oles, James, writer of added commentary.
Hoshino, Marvin, book designer.
Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies, publisher, host institution.
University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography, host institution.
W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.
Arnoldo Mondadori editore, book producer.

Title of exhibition: Mexico City 1941 : photographs by Helen Levitt

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193374
Call No.: TR140.L666 (ID:97-B4428)
Status: Available