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Object Details
- Date
- ca. 1942, printed later
- Artist
- Helen Levitt, born New York City 1913-died New York City 2009
- Exhibition Label
- Caught before they run off into the streets, three masked youngsters pause on their front stoop. Expressive postures and mysterious disguises give this trio a theatrical quality. Helen Levitt, who found poetry in the uninhibited gestures of children, used a right-angle viewfinder to capture boys and girls roaming freely and playing with found objects. Working in New York City during the years surrounding World War II, her photographs show the drama of life that unfolded on the sidewalks of poor and working-class neighborhoods.
- A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013
- Topic
- Cityscape\New York\New York
- Children
- Dress\costume\mask
- Recreation\dress up\children
- Architecture Exterior\detail\door
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Copyright
- © 1981, Helen Levitt
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- 1984.16.4
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 7 1/8 x 10 1/2 in. (18.1 x 26.6 cm.)
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- saam_1984.16.4