What may seem to be the worst of times may in fact be the best. Helen Levitt always has had a unique way of depicting the world and its remarkable events in her time period. Levitt has enchanted her viewers with her striking photography and straightforward style of everyday life to which one can easily relate. Poet Wallace Stevens comments on her work, "Helen Levitt's extraordinary gift is to perceive in transient split second, and in the most ordinary of places-the common city street-the richly imaginative, various and tragically tender moments of ordinary human existence"("The Works of Helen Levitt-Photographer." www.academic.algonquincollege.com. (3-29-04). Levitt's sense of imagination, splendor, and grace is displayed in her photograph New York which was shot in 1940 during the Great Depression era. This photograph, New York, allows viewers to step inside a world of devastation in American history and find a...