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Book Leon Levinstein

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  • Author : Bob Shamis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Leon Levinstein written by Bob Shamis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1970, Leon Levinstein's photography had been included in several important exhibitions, from Photography Then and Now at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1952 to Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1967, but widespread recognition for the artist did not follow. Now, only after his death, Levinstein's work is finally beginning to receive the attention it deserves. Leon Levinstein is the catalog for a major exhibition of his photography opening at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa on February 10, 1995 and at the Museum of Modern Art, New York on July 20, 1995. Featured in this handsome book are 66 photographs taken on the streets of New York's Lower East Side, Coney Island, Times Square, and Central Park and from Haiti, Mexico, and India. These images present in intimate detail the personal struggles and alienation of their subjects as well as Levinstein's own untempered vision of life on the street. Bob Shamis chronicles Levinstein's career as a layout artist in advertising, his aesthetic development, and his relationships with his family, fellow photographer Lisette Model, mentors Sid Grossman of the Photo League and Alexey Brodovitch of the New School for Social Research and Harper's Bazaar, and curators Edward Steichen of the Museum of Modern Art and Helen Gee of the Limelight Gallery. In a second essay, noted critic Max Kozloff discusses Levinstein's place in the milieu of New York street photography. Kozloff writes that "Levenstein's jolting approach and the raunchy world reported in these photographs . . . is very local, unmistakably New York."

Book Leon Levinstein

Download or read book Leon Levinstein written by Leon Levinstein and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leon Levinstein

Download or read book Leon Levinstein written by Leon Levinstein and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of New York at its most lived-in and lowdown, from under-appreciated street photographer Leon Levinstein American street photographer Leon Levinstein is much admired within the photographic community, but little known outside of it. Solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada in 1995 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2010 brought him to the attention of many, but his dynamic and original work is yet to achieve the recognition it deserves. Levinstein's fearless and unsentimental black-and-white images, whether shot in New York City, Coney Island, Haiti, Mexico or India, possess in Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator of Photographs Jeff Rosenheim's words, graphic virtuosity--seen in raw, expressive gestures and seemingly monumental bodies--balanced by an unusual compassion for his offbeat subjects. In 1975, at the age of 65, Levinstein received a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. His intention, in his own words, was to photograph as wide a spectrum of the American scene as my experience and vision will allow. This long-awaited book fulfils this ambitious goal.

Book Leon Levinstein

Download or read book Leon Levinstein written by Sam Stourdzé and published by Léo Scheer Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour se confronter à l'oeuvre majeure de cet artiste qui, entre 1950 et 1980, photographia sans relâche New York. Rassemble plus de 150 photographies, dont un grand nombre sont inédites à ce jour, et quelques études par des spécialistes de cette oeuvre.

Book Limelight

Download or read book Limelight written by Helen Gee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leon Levinstein

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  • Author : Leon Levinstein
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  • Release :
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  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Leon Levinstein written by Leon Levinstein and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New York School

Download or read book The New York School written by Jane Livingston and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 1992 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York School of Photography refers to a loosely defined group of photographers who lived and worked in New York City during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Through a stunning selection of 250 photographs, along with quotes from the photographers, the author shows the New York School's distinctive style. Livingston is associate director and chief curator of the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Book Leon Levinstein

Download or read book Leon Levinstein written by Leon Levinstein and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vanity

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  • Author : C.F.Douglas
  • Publisher : PublishAmerica
  • Release : 2011-06-06
  • ISBN : 1611022754
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Vanity written by C.F.Douglas and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Kinsford family, owners of Vanity Fashions Inc. are embroiled in an attempt to takeover their company and destroy their legacy and their name. Brock, the founder and CEO of Vanity is married to Janelle Kinsford, a powerful woman from the world of old money and a woman who is a force to be reckoned with. She will stop at nothing to protect not only her family and the company, but also the deeply guarded secrets she carries. The story is a rollercoaster ride of passion, secrets, desires and the battle to save not only a company but a family as well."

Book Leon Levinstein

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  • Author : Leon Levinstein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Leon Levinstein written by Leon Levinstein and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vivian Maier

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  • Author : John Maloof
  • Publisher : powerHouse Books
  • Release : 2012-10-30
  • ISBN : 1576876330
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Vivian Maier written by John Maloof and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that all blank pages in the book were chosen as part of the design by the publisher. A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. It is hard enough to find these qualities in trained photographers with the benefit of schooling and mentors and a community of fellow artists and aficionados supporting and rewarding their efforts. It is incredibly rare to find it in someone with no formal training and no network of peers. Yet Vivian Maier is all of these things, a professional nanny, who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide—from France to New York City to Chicago and dozens of other countries—and yet showed the results to no one. The photos are amazing both for the breadth of the work and for the high quality of the humorous, moving, beautiful, and raw images of all facets of city life in America’s post-war golden age. It wasn’t until local historian John Maloof purchased a box of Maier’s negatives from a Chicago auction house and began collecting and championing her marvelous work just a few years ago that any of it saw the light of day. Presented here for the first time in print, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer collects the best of her incredible, unseen body of work.

Book Leon Levinstein

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  • Author : Leon Levinstein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 22 pages

Download or read book Leon Levinstein written by Leon Levinstein and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Gedney

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  • Author : Gilles Mora
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2017-09-05
  • ISBN : 9781477314838
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book William Gedney written by Gilles Mora and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious, introspective, fiercely private, and self-taught, street photographer William Gedney (1932–1989) produced impressive series of images focused on people whose lives were overlooked, hidden, or reduced to stereotypes. He was convinced that photography was a means of expression as efficient as literature, and his images were accompanied by writings, essays, excerpts from books, and aphorisms. Gedney avoided self-promotion, and his underrepresented work was largely unknown during his short lifetime. He died at the age of fifty-six from AIDS. William Gedney: Only the Lonely, 1955–1984 is the first comprehensive retrospective of his photography. It presents images from all of his major series, including eastern Kentucky, where Gedney lived with and photographed the family of laid-off coal miner Willie Cornett; San Francisco and Haight-Ashbury, where he attached himself to a group of disaffected youth, photographing them as they drifted from one vacant apartment to the next during the “Summer of Love”; early photo-reportage of gay pride parades in the eighties; Benares, India, Gedney’s first trip abroad, during which he obsessively chronicled the concurrent difficulty and beauty of daily life; and night scenes that, in the absence of people and movement, evoke a profound universal loneliness. The most complete overview of Gedney’s work to date, this volume reveals the undeniable beauty of a major American photographer.

Book Leon Levinstein  May 31 June 29  1990

Download or read book Leon Levinstein May 31 June 29 1990 written by Leon Levinstein and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book East Harlem

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  • Author : Leo Goldstein
  • Publisher : powerHouse Books
  • Release : 2019-10-15
  • ISBN : 9781576879306
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book East Harlem written by Leo Goldstein and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some 70 years, Leo Goldstein's East Harlembodyof work remained mostly untouched and unseen.The silver gelatin prints were catalogued in 2016,and a selection is gathered here for the first time.The photographs were taken over a number of years,beginning in 1949 when Goldstein was a memberof the Photo League.The East Harlem corpus, edited by Regina Monfort,represents an important and unique addition to thephotographic history of New York City. Because thereare no negatives in existence, it was of particularimportance to preserve the images in book form andmake them available to the public.The selected images reflect the postwar years in theEast Harlem community, which would grow intoa center of Puerto Rican culture and life in the U.S.From the families portrayed gathering on stoops, tothe kids at their shoeshine stations, to youths playingball in the streets, to posters on neighborhood walls,Goldstein's images of East Harlem provide a windowinto the socio-economic, cultural, and politicallandscape of the time.

Book Leon Levinstein   the Moment of Exposure

Download or read book Leon Levinstein the Moment of Exposure written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Harlem

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  • Author : Joseph Rodriguez
  • Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Spanish Harlem written by Joseph Rodriguez and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 1994 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, former residents of Spanish Harlem return for "Old Timer's Day," a celebration of the flamboyance and the gritty self-reliance of the neighborhood.".