Helen Levitt: Mexico City

by Helen Levitt, James Oles

A collection of sixty-seven photographs of the urban and semiurban areas of Mexico city taken in 1941

Hardcover

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Helen Levitt was an American photographer and cinematographer. She was particularly noted for her street photography around New York City. David Levi Strauss described her as "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."
A retrospective exhibition of Levitt's work, In the Street, was shown at The Photographers' Gallery in London from October 2021 to February 2022.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am reading through books by my friend Jay Oles while staying at our mutual friend Bonnie’s house. I had never heard of Helen Levitt but i decided to read the book when I saw the striking photographs of people in Mexico City. Jay’s essay discusses how the photographs show the emergence of Mexico City as an urban city vs a rural outpost. The images in the book depict Mexicans in the emerging urban landscape. A really interesting book about Mexican photography by a famous American photographer.