Leon Levinstein was born in 1910 in Buckhannon, West
Virginia. He attended high school at Baltimore City College (1923-1927), and
college at Maryland Institute of Arts, Baltimore (1927-1928). Levinstein
remained in Baltimore until he enlisted in the army (1942), serving mostly in
Panama, as a mechanic. Shortly after his discharge from the army (October 1945)
he moved to New York City. There he studied with Stuart Davis and Alexey
Brodovitch at the New School for Social Research (1948-1951), and with John
Ebstel and sid Grossman at the Photo League (1947-1948). Leon continued to
study with Grossman at Sid's apartment for the next three years.
Levinstein had a solo exhibition at Helen Gee's Limelight Gallery in 1956. In
the 1950s, he was extensively published in major magazines such as Popular
Photography and the U.S. Camera Annual, and won Popular Photography's
International Photography Contest (1952). Levinstein was included in nine
Museum of Modern Art group shows and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in
1975. Publications of Levinstein's works include The Moment of Exposure :
Leon Levinstein (National Gallery of Canada, 1995), and Leon
Levinstein : Obsession (Editions Leo Scheer, 2000). Leon Levinstein died
in 1998 in New York City.
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