A Way of Seeing

by Helen Levitt (Photographer), James Agee (Essay)

Book by James Agee

Genres: Photography, Art, Nonfiction

101 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 1965

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

[e]

beautiful
dirt
plain
perfect

[Kristin Fouquet]

Along with Helen Levitt's stunning photographs is the best essay I have ever read about photography written by James Agee. This is truly a beautiful book.

[Leonard]

Collection of black and white photos by Levitt, most taken on the streets of New York. Interesting and historically significant.

[Bree]

5⭐️ Helen Levitt photos. Brilliant
2⭐️ essay written in 1946 showed its age

[A]

You might be familiar with these images if you know Helen Levitt's work. They are gritty urban streets from the 1940s. It reminds me of my childhood in the 1950s when we were always playing outside in neighborhood groups. There was something that connected all of us, and Levitt's photos have even more of this humanity than our motley group of children who played together every day.

[Gijs Limonard]

Thoroughly enjoyed this one; be sure to check out many of the photography classics on the internet archive (https://archive.org); freely available for all, just subscribe with your email and digitally 'borrow' any go the innumerable works available.