The Sweet Science of Body and Soul

Jules Allen went to Gleason’s Gym to train. He stayed to make pictures of a smoke-filled world where boxing champs duked it out daily amid dreamers and hustlers, the up and coming and the down and out.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/the-sweet-science-of-body-and-soul/

Jules Allen — no stranger to the latter two traits — had gone there to train. He stayed to make pictures. Now, more than 30 years later, he has published those images in “Double Up,” a book that details the bruised beauty he encountered at Gleason’s