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ICO Collections Museum Opens First Helen Levitt Anthological Exhibition in Spain

MADRID.- First anthological exhibition in Spain of this photographer, who marked street photography aesthetics with her ability to halt time and movement. A full review of her work since her death last year, through 120 images and the documentary film In the Street Helen Levitt is one of the great North American photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Her work is notable for her unique outlook and her documentary style, focusing on urban life, mainly in the street of New York. Her images capture tiny moments of daily life, apparently banal instants yet which have great metaphoric meaning for the social conditions of our time. This exhibition, produced by the ICO Foundation, is the first anthology organised since her death in 2009 aged 96. It presents close to 120 images taken between 1936 and the 1990s, and the documentary In the Street, a precursor to independent American