Blinder, Caroline. 2023. The Lyrical Gaze: On James Agee and Helen Levitt’s 1944 film In The Street. In: Michael A. Lofaro, ed. James Agee in Context: New Literary, Visual, Cultural, and Historical Essays. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, pp. 154-178. ISBN 9781621907428 [Book Section]

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The photographer and filmmaker Helen Levitt collaborated with the writer James Agee in the 1930s and 40s - most famously enlisting Agee to write the introduction to her collection of New York street photography. While Agee was more known for his collaboration with the photographer Walker Evans, this chapter argues for the cinematic rather than the static photograph as the moment when Agee's remarkable writing on the visual crystallises. In Levitt's short film the experimental and the humanist vision of both artists comes together.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Helen Levitt, James Agee, Avant Garde U.S.A. Cinema, Street photography
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Dates:	Date Event 1 September 2020 Completed 17 January 2023 Published
Item ID:	36783
Date Deposited:	14 Jun 2024 10:28
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2024 15:28
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36783

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