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Limited edition signed by Helen Levitt

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Heading: Author: Levitt, Helen Title: Mexico City Place Published: New York and London Publisher:The Center for Documentary Studies; Doubletake; W.W. Norton & Company Date Published: [1997] Description: 141, [2] pp. Text in English and Spanish. With an Essay by James Oles. Illustrated throughout from b&w photographs. 26.6x21.5 cm (10½x8½”), gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket; housed in publisher‘s gilt-lettered cloth slipcase. No. 57 of 200 copies. First Edition. Signed by Helen Levitt at limitation. ”In 1941, the American photographer Helen Levitt spent several months in Mexico, photographing the capital city and its inhabitants. With neither sentimentalism nor romanticism and working almost exclusively in urban and semiurban areas of the city, she confronted the conflicts and juxtapositions that announced Mexico‘s arrival into the modern world, and she did so with compelling force and dry wit.” - publisher.

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