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Art: Photography
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
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Handball Players
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June 8, 2010 – Oct 17, 2010
Daily
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island. The exhibition Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein’s New York Photographs, 1950-1980, on view through October 17, drawn exclusively from the Met’s collection, features some 45 photographs that reflect Levinstein’s fearless approach to the medium. Levinstein’s graphic creativity—seen in raw, expressive gestures and seemingly monumental bodies—is balanced by an unusual compassion for his off-beat subjects from the demimonde.
Image: Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988). Handball Players, Lower East Side, 1950s–60s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1987 © Howard Greenberg Gallery
