"Helen Levitt didn't photograph the famous thoroughfares of New York--no 5th Avenue, Wall Street, Broadway or times Square. She wasn't interested in the grandeur of the metroppolis," notes scholar Elizabeth Gand in the forthcoming book "Helen Levitt" (Thames & Hudson). Rather, writes Gand, for almost her entire six-decade career as a street photographer, Levitt focused her attention and her camera on "plain people living in unremarkable working-class neighborhoods." The new book, the most comprehensive survey to date of Levitt's work, accompanies a major international exhibition of the same name touring through June 2027.

  Preview: Wednesday-Sunday, April 22-26: AIPAD The Photography Show at the Armory AIPAD: The Photography Show, presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers each spring at the Park Avenue Armory, celebrates the medium’s irresistible alchemy, from its 19th-century origins to its practice by artists around the globe today. One of the featured artists is Lynne Saville [above], whose work is presented by Yancey Richardson Gallery. Saville sp...