Helen Levitt
Born: August 31, 1913
Lived in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Dropped out of High School her senior year and started working for J. Florian Mitchell, a portrait photographer in the Bronx.
Her first camera was a Voigtlander and she would shoot photos of her mother's friends.
In 1935 she met Cartier Bresson and accompanied him on a photo-shoot along the
Brooklyn waterfront.
Brooklyn waterfront.
She began training herself as a photographer at museums and galleries.
Fortune Magazine was the first to publish one of Levitt's photographs in 1939.
The next year one of her pictures was included in an exhibit at the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art.
1943 she had her first solo showing of her photographs at the same museum.
She lived a long live and recently passed away at the age of 95.
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