Jeff Rosenheim on Helen Levitt
Jeff Rosenheim, curator of photographs at The Met, gives a talk about Helen Levitt's work.
In this video, Jeff Rosenheim, curator of photographs at The Met, gives a talk about Helen Levitt's work. He also knew her personally: Rosenheim and Levitt were friends. The video is on the Telfair Museums channel and runs about 22 minutes.
Rosenheim is an expert in American photography, with an interest in nineteenth-century and contemporary art. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Bard College. He has also given lectures at Yale and Stanford. The video description also mentions his work as an exhibition curator and author.
According to that description, he organized twenty exhibitions for the Metropolitan Museum, independently or with others. He oversaw the museum's acquisition of the Walker Evans and Diane Arbus archives. He wrote eight publications on Evans and organized six exhibitions of his work. He has also published essays on other photographers, including Diane Arbus and Robert Frank.
