Helen Levitt adopted children's play as her leitmotif, the imaginative play of children taking over city spaces.

N.Y.C. Masked Children
1942
Gelatin silver print
6 1/2 × 8 7/8"
Holden Luntz Gallery

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Jeff Wall, Insomnia, 1994, transparency in lightbox, 172.2 x 213.5 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, © Jeff Wall. Source

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Anna Atkins, Alaria esculenta (1849) and Ulva latissima (1853), from Photographs of British Algae, 1843–53. Cyanotypes.
Spencer Collection, New York Public Library.

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Helen Levitt
American, 1913–2009
Woman and dog in window, 1972
Manhattan, New York

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Wawiriya Burton, Ngayuku ngura - My Country, 2012
Indigenous Australian, Pitjantjatjara (1928-2021)
Acrylic on linen
1525 x 1980mm

Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Valley Curtain, Rifle, Colorado, 1970-72.
Photo Wolfgang Volz.

Georgia O'Keeffe
Wave, Night, 1928