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Helen Levitt framed the people in her photographs with evident fascantion. Her pictures demonstrate a particular interest in the way people carry themselves when they come together, converse, and interact. A recurrent motif in Helen’s photographs is an outreached arm. She seems drawn to people's efforts to connect, and the expressive range of simple gestures.

The children in her photographs play games that border on the inscrutable. Her early photographs were made at the height of Surrealism’s influence and they seem to suggest that all one has to do to glimpse the world of dreams and the …