Helen Levitt's earliest pictures are a unique and irreplaceable look at street life in New York from the mid-1930s to the end of the 1940s. There are children at play, lovers flirting, husbands and wives, young mothers with their babies, women gossiping, and lonely, old men. A majority of these photographs have never been published. Other pictures included in this book are now world-famous, part of the canon and visual language of photography. Combined they provide a record of New York City not seen since Levitt's pioneering solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943.
