Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She dropped out of school and taught herself about photography. At that time she was working for a commercial photography company. She went on to teach small art classes to the children. The children then were photographed by Helen doing their artwork. Like drawing with chalk on the streets, or playing with friends. Her photos moved from children as the subject matter, to just about everything on the New York streets, which was a lot. 

Helen Levitt is a great photographer.  She captured the streets of New York city as they really were. Her photos are amazing in detail, especially extraordinary due to the fact of her having no formal education in photography. Helen most of the time took photos of random people on the streets. She managed to get mostly blank backgrounds, which is hard to do being on the city streets.

William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee on July 27, 1939. His father was an engineer, and failed at being a cotton farmer. His mother was the daughter of a prominent judge in the city.  Having those people for parents must have helped him in many ways. It helped him become as artistic as he is. Eggleston is a very artistic photographer. He has been given a lot of credit for taking color photography into the art world. He does his prints in a large format to make the photo more dramatic without editing it. William also doesn't pose anything in his photos, he takes them as he sees them. The photos are never staged. The ones with people in them, he takes before the people notice he's taking a photo of them. In my opinion William Eggleston is a wonderful and creative photographer.