Born in the Bronx, Lawrence Schwartzwald worked for twenty years as a photojournalist for The New York Post. The Art of Reading is a collection of candid and compelling photographs of ordinary folks in the act of reading books and other printed matter, which started in 2001, inspired in part by Andre Kertesz's ON READING, published in 1972. Mr. Schwartzwald's photos have appeared in Paris Match, the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times and elsewhere.