Helen Levitt's photographs bring to life the streets of New York City by documenting the local communities in an honest and playful way. Her award-winning work spans 60 years, capturing children's chalk drawings of the 1930s sidewalks to everyday life in the 1990s. Although her early work was black and white, Helen Levitt paved the way for serious color photography. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in 1959 and 1960 to pursue her color work. It's those later color photographs that were part of her second solo exhibition at MoMA in 1974. This exhibit was one of the first to show this kind of work in full color, anywhere in the world.