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Helen Levitt Biography
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1913 |
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Born August 31 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY.
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1931 |
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Began working for J. Florian Mitchell, a commercial portrait photographer in the Bronx.
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1935 |
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Met Henri Cartier-Bresson when he spent a year in New York.
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1936 |
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Bought a secondhand Leica, the camera Cartier-Bresson favored.
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1939 |
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Had her first work published in Fortune Magazine's issue on New York City.
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1940 |
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Her her Halloween picture was included in the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art’s photography department.
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1943 |
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Has her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
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1959 |
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.
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1960 |
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.
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2009 |
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Died in her home in Manhattan on March 29, at age 95.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1997
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International Center of Photography, NY
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1997
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Center for Creative Photography, Arizona
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1996
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Highlights of the Permanent Collection, International Center of Photography, NY
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1996
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Recent Acquisitions, Metropolitain Museum of Art, NY
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1995
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American Photography 1890-1965, Museum of Modern Art NY(traveled)
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1992
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SF Museum of Modern Art & other locations in San Francisco, NY, Washington DC, Michigan, Chicago, & Seattle
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1992
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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1991
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Mean Streets, Museum of Modern Art, NY
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1989
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On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art & Art Institute of Chicago Washington, DC & Chicago
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1988
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Convulsive Beauty, Whitney Museum of Art, Downtown NY
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1988
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Photographers Gallery, London
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1986
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Photography: A Facet of Modernism, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalog) San Francisco
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1984
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Photographs from the Collection of the Nat'l Endowment for the Arts, National Museum of American Art Washington, DC
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1983
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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1980
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Corcoran Gallery of Art (catalog), Washington, DC
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1974
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Museum of Modern Art, NY
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1943
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Museum of Modern Art, NY
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