Helen Levitt is best known for her
work in the 1940’s in regards to New York’s poorer neighborhoods. Amazingly,
her work captures the people who dwelled in these areas' lives as normal
individuals, despite their surroundings.
Her images are intriguing because
of how some may have viewed poorer individuals back in the 1940’s, lower and
less significant. Levitt’s work gives this class of people an opportunity to
show that they are normal human beings with families, feelings, and dreams,
just as a person would in an upper-class environment.
The first photo is interesting
because it shows the innocence of children playing outside and enjoying the
masks that they have. To me, this picture represents the simpler things that
make people happy. The second picture depicts the fascination that is
experienced when something interesting happens in our environment. The third
picture raises the question as to what is happening between the two girls. Are
they fighting? Are they playing? Why is that boy lifting up her dress? I want
my photos to show that all walks of life, whether rich or poor, mentally ill or
healthy, are people that feel and experience life events that are similar to
each other.
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