Modern Romance

Author: David Levinthal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
American-born photographer Levinthal has earned national recognition by creating potent, ironic, and sometimes controversial visions using miniature figures and toys as characters in staged tableaux. Since publishing his first major work in 1977 (Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43), he has worked with Barbie, blackface memorabilia, toy soldiers, and various modeling figures to explore the icons and stereotypes of popular culture. Levinthal executed his series Modern Romance in the mid-1980s. Echoing the paintings of Edward Hopper and film noir, these are scenes of urban life in dreamy neon-lit color and television blues. Levinthal shows us figures lingering on street corners, entering movie theaters, passing through alleys, conversing in diners, and interacting in confined spaces. He also depicts the impersonal landscape of the city: cop cars on the streets, doorways, and murky bedrooms. Levinthal's lovely and vaguely troubling photographs house a tension of possibilities; with details obscured, they speak of solitude, sexual isolation, and urban anxiety. An illuminating essay by Eugenia Parry opens the book, nicely placing this formative series in both a personal and an artistic context. This is serious art, dealing with fascinating ideas. Highly recommended for contemporary art collections of academic and public libraries. Deborah Miller, Minneapolis--"Library Journal"

Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty?

Author: David Levinthal
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0375841954
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

Book Description
Break-in at the Three Bears family home? It could only be one dame. Wicked witch gone missing from her candied cottage? Hansel and Gretel claim it was self-defense. Did Humpty Dumpty really just fall off that wall, or was he pushed? Here are five fairy-tale stories with a twist, all told from the point of view of a streetwise police officer called Binky, who just happens to be a toad in a suit and a fedora. When Snow White doesn't make it to the beauty pageant, Officer Binky is the first to find the apple core lying by her bed. When an awful giant mysteriously crashes to the ground, upsetting the whole town, Binky discovers exactly who is responsible. Author David Levinthal and illustrator John Nickle retell these classic stories in the style of a 1940s noir detective novel—for kids!

David Levinthal, Work from 1975-1996

Author: David Levinthal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description

I.E.D.

Author: David Levinthal
Publisher: powerHouse Books
ISBN: 9781576874882
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Dealing with war in any context is a difficult and problematic venture. Acclaimed photographer Levinthal uses toy soldiers and plastic Humvees to explore and understand the ongoing conflict in Iraq. Although this may seem too light and playful, this is not just a recreation of the Iraq War, but a societal commentary about the imaging and imagining of war through the use of direct signifiers. Never before has there been such a massive production of toys directly related to a current and unresolved conflict.

Mein Kampf

Author: David Levinthal
Publisher: Twin Palms Pub
ISBN: 9780944092408
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 87

Book Description
A collection of soft-focus color photographs of toys staged to re-enact the Holocaust.

History

Author: Dave Hickey
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
ISBN: 9783868285574
Category : Miniature objects
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
David Levinthal's latest series, History, is a culmination of his work over the last three-and-a-half decades. Like his previous series, it speaks to the way in which imagery derived from the mass media infiltrates memory, imagination, and identity. With vintage toy figurines and play sets he finds through his now long-established network of toy sellers and collectors, he creates elaborate scenes based on well known scenes from European history.

The Polaroid Years

Author: Mary-Kay Lombino
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
ISBN: 9783791352640
Category : Instant photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From its inception in 1947, the Polaroid system inspired artists to experiment - to dazzling effect - with the cameras' unique technologies. Edwin Land, the inventor of the first Polaroid instant camera, remarked on his discovery, "Photography will never be the same." And he was right. This fascinating journey through the Polaroid era documents the evolution of instant photography. Hundreds of color images celebrate the myriad ways Polaroid photographs were used and ingeniously manipulated by Chuck Close, Walker Evans, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lucas Samaras, William Wegman, and others. In addition, the book features essays addressing the unique technology of instant photography and the marketing genius of the Polaroid Corporation. Interviews with artists reveal how Polaroids affected and, in many instances, forever changed the way artists captured the world around them. AUTHOR: Mary-Kay Lombino is the Emily Hargroves Fisher '57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She has curated several exhibitions including Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists' Books and Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography. ILLUSTRATIONS: 230 photos

Bad Barbie

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982074770
Category : Barbie (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description

WILD WEST PB

Author:
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Levinthal reaches back to his childhood to recall the theatricality and setting of such John Ford films as Red River and the staged movie lots of TV westerns such as Wagon Train and Gunsmoke. Parts of the Photographers at Work Series. 30 color illustrations.

War Games

Author: Terry Deary
Publisher: 9 to 12
ISBN: 9781781122051
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
What do football, cricket and the Second World War have in common? Cricket fanatic George is evacuated to the country. Can he prove himself in the school cricket team? Meanwhile, life for a Jew in wartime Germany isn't easy - will Esther's passion for football survive?