Helen Levitt(1913-2009) was born and raised in New York City. She began to take street pictures in the mid-1930's and had a solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1943. Another MoMA presentation, in 1974, was one of the first major museum exhibitions of serious colour photography anywhere in the world. During her lifetime her pictures appeared in numerous group shows from The Family of Man to Documenta X, and she was the subject of retrospective exhibitions by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Photographer's Gallery in London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Deputación Provincial de Granada, New York's International Center of Photography, Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Sprengel Museum Hannover, and Foam Amsterdam. She published seven collections of her works: Crosstown, Helen Levitt, Here and There, In the Street, Mexico City, Slide Show, and A Way of Seeing. James Agee (1909-1955) was a staff writer for Fortune and Time, film critic
