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.
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