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Via James Johnson's (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
Also go to Helen Levitt.
Jim
Fleeting Exchanges - Helen Levitt Remembered by Jana Prikryl
In almost all of her work, she managed to fix in time unrepeatable encounters on the city's streets while outrunning the often moralizing limits of the documentary mode--a disinterested way of seeing that could lead to her classification, usually in the penultimate paragraph of chapters on street photography, as a kind of charming footnote complicating both the gravity of Walker Evans and the principled artlessness of Robert Frank and his influential disciples.
Jana Prikryl
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