Tag: Leon Levinstein

Streetwise New Yorkers Caught in Their Unguarded Moments Leon Levinstein’s black-and-white pictures of New York from 1950 to 1980 look at the grittier side of the city. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/arts/design/25hipsters.html?partner=rss&emc=rss There is a paradox in Levinstein’s approach that is shared by legions of greater and lesser street photographers: he was hunting for the poetry of real…