Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Leon Levinstein

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Leon Levinstein

Leon Levinstein (1910–1988) was an American street photographer best known for his work documenting everyday street life in New York City from the 1950s through the 1980s. In 1975 Levinstein was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Born: September 20, 1910
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see-where a photographer, if he’s good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesn’t expect to see.
I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph. — © Leon Levinstein
I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see
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