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Images as History Seminar Series: Form as Authority in the Photobooks of Helen Levitt
19 November 2024, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Dr Kimberly Schreiber, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, hosts the first in a series of seminars on photography and history in the Americas.
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Kimberly Schreiber – UCL Institute of the Americas
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103Institute of the Americas51 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PNUnited Kingdom
This talk will survey the work of American photographer Helen Levitt, who is best known for her depictions of working-class children on the streets of New York City c.1940.
Rather than consider her work within polarised social attitudes towards children as either innocent or primal, this talk argues that Levitt’s representation of the relationship between childhood and the street must be understood through her concerns with editing, movement, and public life.
Understanding Levitt’s work in relation to aggregation and sequence, rather than through the dominant lens of primitivism, romanticism and the private subject allows for a historic reappraisal of an American modernism that has largely fallen out of sight.
Hosted by Kimberly Schreiber
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