Leon Levinstein, by Leon Levinstein

Why?

“I've been looking at his work for a long, long time, ever since my discovery of the Photo League. What brought me to his work was the fact that he was shooting 6x6 and was a graphic designer by trade. His compositions and connections to street photography were amazing.

I had struggled early on because we all take those large format classes at ICP, right? And then you start thinking, wow, maybe I can make some interesting portraiture with the square, or we can do this or that. And also being a New York photographer, I really connected to his work.”
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- Joeseph Rodríguez, Photographer