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Helen Levitt

♀  American, 1913–2009

Helen Levitt has been in 28 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1940 and 1986.

28 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics

31 December 1940 to 12 January 1941

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Photographs at $10

3 December 1941 to 4 January 1942

Charles Sheeler, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Helen Levitt: Photographs of Children

10 March to 18 April 1943

Helen Levitt was involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Action Photography

18 August to 19 September 1943

László Moholy-Nagy, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits

4 November to 7 December 1943

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography

24 May to 17 September 1944

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Photographs

20 June 1945 to 23 June 1946

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography

6 April to 11 July 1948

Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

27 July to 26 September 1948

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen

11 October to 15 November 1949

Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt and Margaret Bourke-White, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Polio Poster Competition

31 October to 20 November 1949

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Philip Johnson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Christmas Photographs

29 November 1951 to 6 January 1952

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Then and Now

5–18 August 1952

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Family of Man

24 January to 8 May 1955

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 70 Photographers Look at New York

27 November 1957 to 15 April 1958

Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott and Helen Levitt, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs from the Museum Collection

26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

18–29 November 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

3 April to 15 May 1962

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center

Started 27 May 1964

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

Started 25 October 1967

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition

9 February to 31 March 1968

John Szarkowski, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Paul Strand, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs of Women

7 September to 30 November 1971

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.

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Projects: Helen Levitt in Color

16 September to 20 October 1974

John Szarkowski and Helen Levitt were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Standpoints: Photography, 1940–1955

6 February to 30 April 1978

Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Frank and Lisette Model, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960

26 July to 2 October 1978

Robert Rauschenberg, John Szarkowski, Andy Warhol and Sol LeWitt, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

Started 21 December 1979

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Reinstallation of the Collection

Started 23 October 1980

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Contemporary Photography Reinstallation

7 April to 18 June 1986

Sol LeWitt, Harry Callahan, Helen Levitt and Lee Friedlander, among others, were involved.