1914   Born  Brooklyn, NY

Awards

1997  Master of Photography Award, International Center of Photography

      1997  Outstanding Achievement in Humanistic Photography, Photographic Administrators

     1987  Friends of Photography Peer Award for Distinguished Career in Photography

     1981  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

     1976  National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship

     1974  New York State Council on the Arts Creative Artist's Grant     

     1964  Ford Foundation Fellowship (for filmmaking) 

     1960  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

     1959  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1946  Photography Fellowship, Museum of Modern Art, New York    

     Selected Exhibitions

       2000  Laurence Miller Gallery, New York

1997  Documenta X, Kassel, Germany, 1997   

                Mexico City: Center for Creative Photography, Arizona

          Crosstown : International Center of Photography, New York

       1995  American Photography 1890-1965: Museum of Modern Art, New York

1996  Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

       1994  Helen Levitt: Fotografias: Diputacion Provincial, Granada, Spain

1993  Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

1992  Helen Levitt : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 

1989  On the Art of Fixing the Shadow: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

          Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

                 Photography Until Now: Museum of Modern Art, New York

      1988  Convulsive Beauty: Whitney Museum, New York

      1986  Portraits from the Permanent Collection : Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1985  The New York School (parts 1 and 2): Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

1982  Color as Form: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

1978  New Standpoints: Photography 1940-1955 : Museum of Modern Art, New York      

1976  One Hundred Master Photographs: Museum of Modern Art, New York

1952  Helen Levitt and Frederick Sommer: Institute of Design, Chicago, IL

1955  The Family of Man: Museum of Modern Art, New York

       1943  Photographs of Children: Museum of Modern Art, New York

Selected Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MO

International Center of Photography, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

       Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

       Museum of Modern Art, New York

       National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.

       San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

       Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York