New York, Helen Levitt

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In making this photograph of children at play in the urban density of New York City, Levitt ignored the larger social ills of poverty, the rise of fascism, and the threat of war to depict a world that seems free of anxieties. She presents the body as a vehicle for freedom and play, as the three boys run about an empty parcel of land.
Levitt saw children’s play as physical, centered in the body itself, not in the mind or emotions, and she drew attention to its physicality, its very location in the body, by placing these boys within deep and clearly defined three-dimensional spaces that they then command with a theatrical presence.