01/28 – 5 p.m. Visit-workshop to the exhibition of Helen Levitt FUNDACIÓ KBr

The visit-workshop is designed so that visitors can get to know the artist’s work in a practical and interactive way. This visit-workshop consists of two hours. The first is a guided tour of the exhibition and the second is the photographic workshop emphasizing the artist’s gaze.

Helen Levitt (1913-2009) began photographing street scenes in her hometown of New York in the late 1930s. Her photographs capture the life of the urban environment, and especially children playing in the streets. In the mid-1930s, Levitt met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans, and helped Evans make prints for his famous exhibition American Photographs in 1938. She showed him her first black-and-white photographs of children with their improvised games and chalk drawings, and he drew with chalk. Helen Levitt took her camera to the city’s poorest neighborhoods, such as Hispanic Harlem and the Lower East Side, where people treated the streets like living rooms, and where she showed an unerring sense and empathy for the mystery and wry humor of everyday life.

Wednesday, January 28, 2026, from 5 to 7 p.m

Free activity – Limited places

Prior registration required by clicking here

KBr Fundació MAPFRE, Avinguda Litoral 30, Barcelona

Meeting at 16.45 at the door of the foundation. We ask you to be punctual.