Helen Levitt, Who Captured New York Street Life, Dies at 95 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com

Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless form of street choreography that held at its heart, as William Butler Yeats put it, β€œthe ceremony of innocence.” A man handles garbage-can lids like an exuberant child imitating a master juggler. Even an inanimate object β€” a broken record β€” appears to skip and … Continue reading Helen Levitt, Who Captured New York Street Life, Dies at 95 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com