A Way of Seeing was Helen Levitt’s first published collection of photographs and features 50 incredible gravure plates of her pictures taken on the streets of Harlem and the Lower East Side. Levitt’s photographs are beautiful underrated works. Her pictures have sentiment without being sentimental, always maintaining an objective distance. The New York Times stated, “Helen Levitt was the first American photographer to fully comprehend the essence of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photographic message and put it into practice.”

Description: Hardbound in dust jacket. First Edition. Photographs by Helen Levitt, with an essay by James Agee. Dust Jacket and book show light wear and some minor age toning, but otherwise in good condition. A bookplate is affixed to the front pastedown. Interior pages are otherwise clean with no writing, signs of ownership, or similar marks. Binding sound. One of the Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. Rare and sought after!

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A Way Of Seeing
Levitt, Helen; Agee, James

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