New York photographer Helen Levitt died on Sunday at the age of 95. After dropping out of high school, she trained with a commercial photographer. In 1935, she met Henri Cartier-Bresson; she also became friends with Walker Evans and James Agee. Levitt worked as a film director and editor before returning to photography in the late 1950s, when she was one of the first street photographers to focus on color (she switched back to black and white three decades later). The New York Times obituary mentions that she was born with Ménière's Disease; I wonder how that affected her many, many walks in the city.
Untitled photo c. 1942; linked with permission from Encyclopedia Britannica.
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