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May 11, 2015

50 Amazing Candid Photographs That Capture New York City's Street Scenes From Between the 1950s and 1980s

Leon Levinstein (1910–1988) was an American street photographer best known for his work documenting everyday street life in New York City from the 1950s through the 1980s.

He moved to New York in 1946 and spent the next thirty-five years obsessively photographing strangers on the streets of his adopted home. With daring and dedication to his subject, Levinstein captured the denizens of New York City at extremely close range. He used his superb sense of composition to frame the faces, flesh, poses, and movements of his fellow city dwellers in their myriad guises: sunbathers, young couples, children, businessmen, beggars, prostitutes, proselytizers, society ladies, and characters of all stripes.



















































(via Shooting Film)

3 comments:

  1. ..The world went totally insane...and then we started to work again.

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  2. How to remember, how to educate, so that it never happens again.

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  3. Stunning/amazing photographs. They would not have the same effect if they were in color. I needed to return to them multiple times.

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