 Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
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New Color Photography |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 107 |
| Germany | 20 |
| France | 10 |
| Spain | 9 |
| Canada | 6 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
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Laurence Miller Gallery, USA |
19 |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
9 |
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ICP - International Center of Photography, USA |
5 |
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts, USA |
3 |
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MOCA Grand Avenue, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
31.8.1913 Born in New York City, NY (US)
Awards 2008 »Spectrum« Award 2008
29.3.2009 Died in New York City, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 175
until 20.10.
until 9.6.
Solo shows 42
2012
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| Just Kids - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Helen Levitt Photographs - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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| In a New York Minute: Photographs by Helen Levitt - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| Helen Levitt - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
2010
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| Un Lyrisme Urbain - Le Point du Jour - Centre d'art Éditeur, Cherbourg-Octeville |
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| Helen Levitt. Lírica Urbana. Fotografías 1936-1993. PHotoEspaña 2010 - Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid |
2009
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| The Knight Purchase Award: Helen Levitt - Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH |
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| Helen Levitt: A Photographer’s Legacy - Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA |
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| Helen Levitt - A Memorial Tribute - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Helen Levitt - New York Photographs - Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam |
2008
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| Helen Levitt - In the Street - Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Helen Levitt - "Spectrum" - Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover |
2007
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| Helen Levitt - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris |
2006
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| Helen Levitt - Galerie F5,6 für Fotografie, Munich |
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| Helen Levitt - Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA |
2005
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| Helen Levitt - Slide Show - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Helen Levitt - Vintage Graffiti - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Helen Levitt - Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
2002
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| Helen Levitt - Graffiti - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Helen Levitt - Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA |
2001
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| Helen Levitt - Crosstown - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Helen Levitt - Recent prints, Chalk Drawing Murals - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Mexico City 1941: Photographs by Helen Levitt - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
1998
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| Helen Levitt - Museum Villa Stuck, Munich |
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| Ciudad de México, 1941 - Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City |
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| Helen Levitt - Museum der Moderne - MdM Rupertinum, Salzburg |
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| Helen Levitt - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Mexico City 1941 - Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC |
1997
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| Helen Levitt: Crosstown - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Helen Levitt - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON |
1993
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| Helen Levitt: Photographs - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
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| Helen Levitt - Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, BC |
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| Helen Levitt: Photography - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1992
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| Helen Levitt Photographs - Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Helen Levitt - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
1987
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| Helen Levitt: Children's Street Drawings, New York, 1938–1948 - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Helen Levitt. Fotografier - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
1981
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| Helen Levitt / MATRIX 47 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Helen Levitt / Matrix 66 - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
1980
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| Helen Levitt: Photography - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1974
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| Projects: Helen Levitt in Color - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1943
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| Helen Levitt: Photographs of Children - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 131
2013
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| Light Sensitive - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
2012
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| The Dwelling Life of Man - Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort |
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| Howard Greenberg, Collection - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| City Scenes: Highlights of New York Street Photography - Museum of the City of New York, New York City, NY |
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| Road Atlas. Straßenfotografie aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung - Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Cottbus |
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| Fundación Foto Colectania - Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona |
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| American Photography - Flo Peters Gallery , Hamburg |
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| La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| New Vision - ARGENTIC, Paris |
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| Aipad Photography Show 2012 - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Picturing New York - Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA |
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| 100 Years of Photography - University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA |
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| Looking Forward - Looking Back - G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2011
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| Childish Things - Tabla Rasa Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Road Atlas - Straßenfotografie aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung - Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim |
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| Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Framed: Street Photography from the Collection - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2010
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| Ojos Privados: Selections from the Collection of Laurence Miller - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| México : esperado/inesperado - B.P.S.22 - Espace de Création Contemporaine, Charleroi |
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| Mexico Beyond Its Revolution - Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA |
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| Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
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| Past, Present, Future II - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Furthermore: 30th Anniversary Exhibition - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970 – 1980 - Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Body Language - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Mexico: Expected/Unexpected. Collection Isabel and Agustín Coppel - Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam |
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| 38 AT 38 - Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA |
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| Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| Group Show - Only-photography, Berlin |
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| Assembly - Monte Clark Gallery - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
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| Mexico: Expected / Unexpected - TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| Immaginare New York. Fotografie dalla collezione del MoMA - MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto |
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| Modern Moments: Recent Gifts in American Photography - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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| Reality Revisted - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Photography on the Street - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| 25th Anniversary Celebration - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Collection Agustín et Isabel Coppel, Mexico: Expected/Unexpected - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Street & Studio. Eine urbane Geschichte der Fotografie - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
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| Ojos privados Colección Laurence Miller - Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona |
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| I AM I A KILLER - Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| When color was new vintage photographs from around the 1970s - Julie Saul Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Images Du Corps, Vertiges Et Vestiges - Musée Régional D'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan |
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| Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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| A Mind at Play - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson & Helen Levitt - Side by Side - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| Street & Studio: an urban history of photography - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The implications of image) - MUCA Roma - Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City |
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| Selections One - Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO |
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| Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| City Portraits - - Deborah Bell/Photographs, New York City, NY (closed, 2011) |
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| POST-WAR PERSPECTIVES 1945 -1960 - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2007
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| The New York Scholl 1936-63 - Galerie Stephen Hoffman, Munich |
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| Empty Nest: The Changing Face of Childhood in Art, 1880 to the Present - Nathan A. Bernstein Co. Ltd., New York City, NY |
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| MACBA im Frankfurter Kunstverein - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Photographic Formalities: From Ansel Adams to Weegee - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Past (Present) Future - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Icons of American Photography - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| VIP - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| On the Street - The New York School of Photographers - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| Review - 4 Jahre Galerie f5,6 - Galerie F5,6 für Fotografie, Munich |
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| Diane Arbus – Helen Levitt: A Conversation - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Porträt der Straße - Fotografien aus drei Jahrhunderten - Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren |
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| Americans - Masterpieces of American Photography from 1940 until now - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Photography Collection - Galeria Ramis Barquet - 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Moderna Museet c/o Dunkers Kulturhus - EyeWitness - Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg |
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| The Streets of New York: American Photographs from the Collection, 1938–1958 - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Several Exceptionally Good Recently Aquired Pictures XVIII - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Tiefenschärfe - Bilder vom Menschen - Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden |
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| Metro Pictures, part two - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Portraits of Artists - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Rostros y Máscaras - Fotografías de la Colección Ordóñez-Falcón - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
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| Rostros y Máscaras - Museu d´Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca |
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| De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman - Galerie de France, Paris |
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| Looking at America - - Galerie Hohenlohe, Vienna (closed, 2008) |
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| La Colección MACBA - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Slide Show - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Surface - Group Show - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Faces in the Crowd - Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| On The Street - The New York School of Photographers - Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
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| Into The Unknown - Abstraction From The Collection - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| La Photographie á l'Épreuve - IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne |
2004
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| Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book, 1936–1966 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Illusion of innocence - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
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| Ausstellungen 1994 - 2004 - Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne |
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| Arte y utopía - La acción restringida - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Yet Untitled - Die Sammlung Bernd F. Künne - Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg |
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| Defining Moments - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| Yet Untitled - Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen |
2003
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| City Streets - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Content - Rem Koolhaas und OMA-AMO - Bauten, Projekte und Konzepte seit 1996 - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| The Art of Street Photography - Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Hot Summer in the City - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Les choix dCB - Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris |
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| Contortion Distortion - Group Selection - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| A Proposal for an Exhibition - Monte Clark Gallery - Toronto, Toronto, ON |
2002
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| New York: Capital of Photography - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| A Proposal for an Exhibition - Monte Clark Gallery - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
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| New York Observed: The Mythology of the City - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Through the Looking Glass - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| A Bird Show - Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Americans - Meisterwerke der amerikanischen Photographie - MMK Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, Passau |
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| New York - Capital of Photography - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| About Away - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
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| GARY BROTMEYER - The Nap is Good / HELEN LEVITT - Graffiti - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| 10th Anniversary Exhibition - Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The Social Scene - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| A Room Of Their Own - From Rothko To Rauschenberg - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
2000
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| The Social Scene - - The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL (closed) |
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| Moodstruck - Photographs from the Permanent Collection - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
1998
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| Paved With Gold - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Helen Levitt & Roger Mayne - Vintage Street Photographs - Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1997
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| documenta X - Documenta, Kassel |
1994
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| Mexico through foreign eyes - Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan |
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| American Surrealist Photography - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Motion and Document/Sequence and Time: Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| In Transit - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1990
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| The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers And Artists Respond In The Time Of Aids - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Noted Women Photographers of the 20’s and 30’s - Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1982
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| In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948–1982 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1981
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| The New Color: A Decade of Color Photography - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1978
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| New Standpoints: 1940-1955 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1973
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| The Responsible Eye, Three Decades of the Photograph as Document / Trois décennies de photographies documentaires (1930- - Optica - centre for contemporary art, Montreal, QC |
1971
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| Photographs of Women - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1957
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| 70 Photographers Look at New York - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1949
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| Photography (6 Women Photographers) - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1943
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| Action Photography - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 8 |
Germany
| | Galerie F5,6 für Fotografie, Munich
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| | Galerie Stephen Hoffman, Munich
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South Korea
USA
| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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France
| | IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
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Spain
| | Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
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USA
| | University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
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