Photographer Helen Levitt Dies at 95

Photographer Helen Levitt, best known for her lyrical depictions of New York City street life, died yesterday in her sleep at the age of 95. Brooklyn-born Levitt dropped out of high school and in 1931 took a job working for a commercial photographer in the Bronx. “And I decided I should take pictures of working class people and contribute to the movements,” she said in a 2002 interview with NPR. “Whatever movements there were—Socialism, Communism, whatever was happening.