Helen Levitt’s photographs provide us with a glimpse into the furor and fastness of life in New York from the 30’s to the 80’s. Chronicling half a century of life on the city streets, Levitt’s lyrical eye reveals the playfulness at the heart of human interaction in the metropolis.

“An Uncommon Place” is an attempt to convey my relationship to landscape and artifact. It is a perpetual search for unfamiliar terrain and an ongoing personal project.”