Helen Levitt: Slide Show Exhibition - Laurence Miller Gallery

Laurence Miller Gallery Exhibition November 3 - December 23, 2005

HELEN LEVITT Slide Show: Color Photographs 1959-1984

Laurence Miller Gallery takes pleasure in presenting HELEN LEVITT: Selected Color Work 1959-1984, in honor of her new monograph from PowerHouse Books, SLIDE SHOW.

Well known for her lyrical, gentle and insightful black and white photographs, this exhibition of thirty works in color by this 90 year old master reveals Levitt’s uncanny eye for discovering subtle, often overlooked relationships between pedestrians and their surroundings, from store windows to broken down cars. Though color is never her subject, it is always an essential ingredient in this work.

Included in the exhibition will be several of her classics: New York , 1980 (Spider Girl), depicting a girl twisting her body next to a parked car; New York, 1972 (Boys with Bubbles), showing two boys fascinated with a huge bubble; and New York, 1972 (Kids with Laundry) in which six children each act out their own private dance. Many color works never before printed will be making their exhibition debut as well.

Helen Levitt began shooting in color in 1959, with the assistance of back to back Guggenheim Foundation grants. In 1974 the Museum of Modern Art presented a continuous slide projection, one of the earliest examples of a slide show presentation by a museum, and one of the first exhibitions of serious color photography anywhere in the world.

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New York, 1959 30 x 40" C-print	New York, 1971 16 x 20" dye transfer print	New York, 1972 16 x 20" dye transfer print	New York, 1972 16 x 20" dye transfer print
New York, 1971 20 x 30" C-print	New York, 1972 13 x 16 7/8" dye transfer print	New York, 1980 16 x 20" C-print	New York, 1974 16 x 20" C-print
New York, 1976 16 x 20" C-print	New York, 1981 16 x 20" C-print	New York, 1971 16 x 20" dye transfer print	New York, 1978 16 x 20" C-print
New York, 1959 11 x 14" C-print	New York, 1974 11 x 14" dye transfer print	New York, c.1980s 16 x 20" C-print	New York, 1963 30 x 40" C-print
New York, 1963 11 x 14" C-print	New York, 1979 16 x 20" dye transfer print	New York, c.1970s 20 x 16" C-print	New York, 1974 20 x 16" C-print
New York, 1971 20 x 16" C-print	New York, 1971 30 x 20" C-print	New York, 1988 17 1/4 x 15 3/4" dye transfer print

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