Center for Children's Literature and Culture

Curator of Photography Carol McCusker will discuss the work and film on view in the Helen Levitt exhibition, “Private Dramas, Public Dreams: The Street Photographs of Helen Levitt & Friends.”  The exhibit features more than forty vintage photographs by the acclaimed street photographer and filmmaker Helen Levitt.  Playing in the gallery is her rarely seen documentary, In the Street, a celebrated film that is essentially her photographs ‘come to life.’  The exhibition also includes WPA graphic prints from the Harn Collection, alongside photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Walter Rosenblum.