New York

Helen Levitt

c. 1945

Gelatin silver print

Minneapolis Institute of Art

…I decided I should take pictures of working class people and contribute to the movements [of the 1930s]. Whatever movements there were -- Socialism, Communism, whatever was happening. And then I saw pictures of [Henri] Cartier-Bresson, and realized that photography could be an art -- and that made me ambitious. Helen Levitt, the great American photographer of urban life and the poetry of children at play, died on March 29th at the age of 95. Gallery Not on View The William Hood Dunwoody Fund