Monday, September 16, 2013

Great black and white photographers, Part 2

                                                              HELEN LEVITT


-Helen Levitt, was born on August 31, 1913, in Brooklyn, New York.

-Levitt died on March 29, 2009 in New York, New York.

-She pursued the career of photography and she was know for her captures of children and urban street life. 

- She wanted to be an artist but had no talent, and didn't even know how to draw so she left high school, and just out of high school Levitt got a job in a photography studio 

-She had her first major exhibition that took place in 1943 at the Museum of Modern Art (New York)

-In 1965 she published her first major collection, A Way of Seeing.




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