The kids are deep into Fortnite ... This instinctive inventiveness is on show in the wonderful photographs of Helen Levitt, who took pictures of children at play on the streets of New York ...

By Rena Silverman New York City’s doorways, storefronts and cascading fire escapes were the grand backdrop to Helen Levitt’s photos. In the Lower East Side and Harlem, children pretended to be ...

Helen Levitt, who is 89 years old and is publishing her fifth book of photographs this spring, says that out of the thousands of pictures she ... Then again, kids still poke their heads out ...

Helen Levitt found ... and that's where Levitt spent her time — especially in Spanish Harlem. "It was a very good neighborhood for taking pictures in those days, because that was before ...

In pairing displays of work by photographers Helen Levitt ... has helped give Levitt's work a prop-heavy installation that works only to the extent that it makes the pictures' grouping by themes ...

Helen Levitt was one of the ... a special attachment which allowed her to take pictures sideways and therefore go relatively unnoticed on the streets. Levitt's work was first published in Fortune ...

Photographer; Born August 31, 1913; Died March 29, 2009 Helen Levitt ... a vanished era. Levitt was best known for street scenes of children in the 1930s and 1940s. In one photo, three children ...