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Helen Levitt

American photographer and filmmaker
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Helen Levitt (born August 31, 1913, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died March 29, 2009, New York) was an American street photographer and filmmaker whose work captures the bustle, squalor, and beauty of everyday life in New York City. Levitt began her career in photography at age 18 working in a portrait studio in the Bronx. After seeing the works of French photographer Henri-Cartier Bresson, she was inspired to purchase a 35-mm Leica camera and began to...

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