Helen Levitt - Mexico Citywith an introduction by James Oles Helen Levitt - winner of the 1997 International Center of Photography's Lifetime Achievement Award - visited Mexico City in 1941. Here is a collection of 80 images from that visit (most never before published or exhibited) portraying a city on the cusp of modernity, captured by Levitt with compelling force and dry wit. Over half a century later, Levitt's photographs unlock the past, helping to decipher the sprawling city of today. With text throughout in English and Spanish, the book includes an introduction by James Oles, curator of the traveling exhibition of this work. "Every one of these pictures is a piece of spontaneous theater."-The New York Times
"These images remind us of what we love about cities: the promise that something intriguing, tragic, or hilarious-something endlessly mysterious and indefinably human-waits, perhaps just around the next corner."-Elle |