The Underrated Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt is a street photographer who consistently showed the reality of life on the streets of New York for over 60 years. Throughout her career, her photographs consistently portrayed the subjects in their honest and true form unlike the media at the time. Her subjects consisted of "men, women, and children acting out a daily drama on the sidewalks and stoops of New York City's tenements" (laurencemillergallery.com).  Levitts' first huge exhibition was in 1943 at the Museum of Modern Art, and a second show of color only was held there at 1974. In the late 2000s she received awards for her work and her amazing ability to show her subjects in a pure form.