Helen Levitt

Born on august 31st 1913

She was an American photographer

She was most known for street photography

Who was she?

-Helen dropped out of high school and found a job with a commercial photographer

-She taught herself photography

Her camera

-Helen purchased a leicacamera

-She begun photographing the work along with the children who’d created it.

Pictures in NYC

Graffiti pictures

Coloured photographs

The photographs

These collection of photographs were published in 1987 as ‘In the street: chalk drawings and messages

Her next major shows were in the 1960s