Unlike Robert Frank, who kept his distance when capturing his portraits of ordinary Americans, street photographer Leon Levinstein got as close as he could. He mixed with crowds, leaned over sunbathers, crept up behind the pensive. Many of the 44 pictures in this collection are like the furtive glances we make a hundred times a day but rarely remember: A bikinied woman lying on Coney Island sand, shot from above, clutches her baby's head to her ear, as if desperate to hear a breath; a young couple fondles each... More >>>