This revelatory book brings together more than 100 of Helen Levitt’s color photographs, combining iconic images with previously unpublished work in a large format that rivals the scale of her original prints. While Levitt is widely celebrated for her pioneering street work in black and white, this book deepens our understanding of her chromatic legacy. She began making street photographs in the 1930s and ’40s, shifting experimentally to color in 1959—immersing herself in the luminous spectrum that Kodachrome made possible. She photographed not glamour but the locals of Spanish Harlem, the Lower East Side and the Midtown red-light districts: hives of everyday activity bringing together shoppers and shopkeepers, delivery men, street vendors, mothers, fathers and children. While she exhibited her color work as early as a 1974 slideshow at the Museum of Modern Art, only in 2005 was it first published in book form.