Post-War East Harlem Photographed By Leo Goldstein • Discoverology

Post-War East Harlem Photographed By Leo Goldstein

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Leo Goldstein began capturing East Harlem in 1949 after he’d joined the New York Photo League, a photo club that originated around the beginning of the Great Depression. Having remained largely unseen for the last 70 years, his photographs are now the focus of a new book, East Harlem: The Postwar Years.

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