Great Black and White Photographers Part 2

Helen Levitt

• born August 31,1913 in Brooklyn New York
• first published in fortune magazine in july 1939
• first solo exhibit in 1943
• died March 29, 2009 in Manhattan 
• books: A Way of Seeing and In the Street: Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York City, 1938-1948
• dropped out of high school, never went to collage
• was a photographer and a film maker 
• 1936 she got a used leica camera and equipped it with a winkelsucher 
• in 1959 and 1960 she experimented with color photography
• wanted to document the world of the unprivileged on the lower east side of Manhattan, Yorkville, and Harlem   

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/L/levitt/levitt_resources.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/helen-levitt-photographer-renowned-for-her-portraits-of-street-life-in-new-york-1670451.html

http://www.biography.com/people/helen-levitt-9380782

http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Helen-Levitt.html