Helen Levitt's name became associated with photography in the 1930s. She was raised in Brooklyn, NY and loved music, dance, books, and foreign films. Though she did start high school, she left before graduating and went to work for a commercial photographer in the Bronx. She soon began to take pictures on her own.
Inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans, she worked for a government project that was trying to show and fix the social problems of America. Though many other people that where chosen for this project took a different path, she decided to show the hardships of children in the streets of New York. Most of the children were dirty and had their clothes held together with pins. Helen took a lot of pictures of children playing in the street. She really tried to capture the essence of the time. Helen would frame an entire scene, rather then just a close-up. By doing this she gives her viewers more to feel from the entirety. The Museum of Modern Art showed......
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