Helen Levitt

Helen was a New York contemporary photographer who was known throughout her long career has inspired and amazed generations of photographer, students, curators by her quiet, poetic images made on the streets of the city. Throughout her photographer career she has reflected her photographs in a poetic vision, humor to portray her subjects on men, women and children living it out on the streets and among the public housing of New York.

Helen realised  from conversations with Henri Cartier Bresson that photography could be an art form in itself and did not always have to be about social justice.

In 1936 she had found an medium for her unconscious obsession by shooting images on children playing in the streets of New York to bring out the children's performative games and the untutored artistry of their drawings found on stoops and sidewalks.

Some of her photographs I find depressing especially the one where there are young people and a mother in house looking through or out of window seeing as if they are imprisoned and jealous on how other young people are out on streets free to live their life which makes the younglings in window eager to get out of household.