from the NYTimes, Helen Levitt, Who Froze New York Street Life on Film, Is Dead at 95
"Helen Levitt, a major photographer of the 20th century who caught fleeting moments of surpassing lyricism, mystery and quiet drama on the streets of her native New York, died in her sleep at her home in Manhattan on Sunday. She was 95. ...
Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless form of street choreography that held at its heart, as W.B. Yeats put it, “the ceremony of innocence.” A man handles garbage-can lids like an exuberant child imitating a master juggler. ...
As marvelous as these images are, the masterpieces in Ms. Levitt’s oeuvre are her photographs of children living their zesty, improvised lives. A white girl and a black boy twirl in a dance of their own imagining.[ see second above ] "
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