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A Brief Chat with Helen Levitt and a Few Other Things

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by Sybil Miller, published on September 17th, 2008

New York-based photographer Helen Levitt reached her 95th birthday this past August and to help celebrate we are honored to publish writer/photographer Sybil Miller's personal reflections on Levitt’s life work, followed by a rare interview. In part two, Miller provides her insight and analysis of the various editions of Levitt's landmark book A Way of Seeing and her beautiful new monograph published by powerHouse Books.

Read Part One: A Brief Chat — which includes an introduction and the recent interview.

Read Part Two: A Way of Seeing x 3 — a comparative study of some of Levitt's most well known publications, particularly the various editions of her seminal monograph A Way of Seeing.

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An amazing article and interview. Congratulations!

Posted By Lou Brusatti | September 24, 2008 at 12:48 PM

I found this fascinating. A philistine (at least in the world of photography), I was not familiar with so much as Ms. Levitt's name when I happened across this.

I feel now as if I have met her; I want to see more of her work as soon as the book stores open tomorrow.

Thank you.

Posted By Nancy Crocker | September 24, 2008 at 8:35 PM

This was a lovely article written with obvious affection. Ms. Miller did a good job of personalizing and creating an intimate peek into Ms Levitts psyche. I enjoyed it very much.

Posted By heidi | October 18, 2008 at 4:29 PM

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This was a lovely article written with obvious affection. Ms. Miller did a good job of personalizing and creating an intimate peek into Ms Levitts psyche. I enjoyed it very much.

Posted By heidi | October 18, 2008 at 4:29 PM

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