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It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.

Helen Levitt

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt

Born: August 31, 1913
Died: March 29, 2009 (aged 95)
Bio: Helen Levitt was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."
Known for:
  1. Crosstown (2001)
  2. Here and there (2003)
  3. Photographers on Photographers (1998)
  4. A Way of Seeing
  5. One, Two, Three, More

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