Description
The signed limited edition of A Way Of Seeing by Helen Levitt, enlarged with 24 additional photographs.
Quarto, xv, 68pp. Blue paper board over white vellum spine, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Trace of wear to front cover. In the publisher’s matching blue cloth slipcase, light sunning along the top edge, solid binding.
From a limited edition of 250 copies, signed by the author, Helen Levitt, this one numbered 106.
This expanded work includes 68 black and white photogravures from Helen Levitt, taken during the 1940s in Spanish Harlem. Originally published in 1965, with an essay by James Agree, it is widely considered one of the most important illustrated works of the 20th Century. (Parr & Badger, Photobook, p. 252) (Roth, p. 178-179)
