"A great chronicler of New York's children and street life, and a great New Yorker." - Martin Schneider
"At least a dozen of Helen Levitt’s photographs seem to me as beautiful, perceptive, satisfying, and enduring as any lyrical work that I know. In their general quality and coherence, moreover, the photographs as a whole body, as a book, seem to me to combine into a unified view of the world, an uninsistent but irrefutable manifesto of a way of seeing, and in a gently and wholly unpretentious way, a major poetic work." -James Agee
"Helen Levitt is considered 'a photographer's photographer'—little known by the public, but revered by fellow photographers. She has never sought fame, and she's intensely private.... Helen Levitt has led a remarkable life. Levitt created some of the most indelible photographs of New York City street scenes in the 1930s and 40s.... Levitt's photographs are tender, and witty, and intimate." —"All Things Considered," NPR
New York Times
Lens Culture - Levitt slideshow of 24 images
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