A WAY OF SEEING (FIRST HARDCOVER EDT)

Helen Levitt
A WAY OF SEEING (FIRST HARDCOVER EDT)

Photographs: Helen Levitt

Text: James Agee

Publisher: THE VIKING PRESS

80 pages

Pictures: 51

Year: 1965

Price: 600 €

Comments: Hardcover under illustrated dust jacket, 19,5 x 23,5 cm, oblong size. Original edition, b&w photographs reproduced in gravure on Matt paper. Some moderate scratch and wears on the dust jacket and price-clipped, otherwise the book itself is in very good condition apart from a few slightly bumped page corners.

"In every other art which draws directly on the actual world, the actual is transformed by the artist's creative intelligence into a new and different kind of reality. In the kind of photography we are talking about here, the artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye see it, but to perceive the esthetic reality within the actual world, and to make an undisturbed and faithful record of the instant in which this movement of creativeness achieves its most expressive crystallization."

James Agee