David Levinthal
David Levinthal (born March 8, 1949 in San Francisco ) is an American photo artist.
Life
David Levinthal received a Bachelor of Studio Art from Stanford University in 1970 and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Photography from Yale University in 1973 . He then studied management at the MIT Sloan School of Management , graduating in 1981 with a Scientiæ Magister . Since then he has been working as a freelance photographer. Levinthal received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1990 and was a Guggenheim grantee in 1995 .
Levinthal began in Yale in 1972 to arrange toy dolls, including the Barbie doll , in photographic scenarios. His photographic concepts focus on the imitation of reality, not reality itself. Together with Garry Trudeau he caused a sensation with the project "Hitler Moves East" (1975-77) - a series of imagined scenes from the Second World War on the German-Russian front. Levinthal creates an ambiguity in his photos through the chosen blurring: the story of the artist is added to the story of the viewer (James E. Young). In “Wild West” (1987-89) the Wild West and the Indian Wars were arranged in scenarios of the Hollywood Western and in advertising images of the twentieth century. In “Mein Kampf” (1993–94), Levinthal staged Hitler's theatrics on the one hand and scenes from the Holocaust on the other. He breaks the current media language about military actions in the Iraq war and in Afghanistan in “IED” (2008).
The photographers Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince are influenced by Levinthal .
Works / exhibitions (selection)
- David Hickey; Lisa Hostetler (Ed., Texts): History: photographs by David Levinthal . Design George Corsillo. International Museum of Photography and Film. Heidelberg; Berlin: Kehrer, 2015
- Paul Roth, Kaitlin Booher, Dave Hickey (Eds., Texts): War games: David Levinthal . Corcoran Gallery of Art. Heidelberg; Berlin: Kehrer, 2013
- with John Nickle: Who pushed Humpty Dumpty? : and other notorious nursery tale mysteries . New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2012
- Barbie Millicent Roberts: an original . New York: Pantheon Books, 1998
- David Levinthal, work from 1975-1996 . Essays and interview by Charles Stainback and Richard B. Woodward. New York: The International Center of Photography, 1997
- The Wild West . Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993
- Hitler moves East: a graphic chronicle, 1941-43 . New York: Laurence Miller Gallery; Albuquerque, 1989
literature
- James E. Young : After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture . Translation of Ekkehard Knörer . Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2002 ISBN 3-930908-70-0 , pp. 54–75
- Ralf Christofori: Image - Model - Reality: Representative models in contemporary photography; Oliver Boberg, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, David Levinthal, Lois Renner, Laurie Simmons, Edwin Zwakman . Heidelberg: Wunderhorn, 2005
- Frances Stracey: Myth and the ready-made in David Levinthal's toy stories . in: Philosophy of Photography, Volume 2, Number 2, July 2012, pp. 367–378
Web links
- Literature by and about David Levinthal in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about David Levinthal in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- David Levinthal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- David Levinthal , website
Individual evidence
- ↑ James E. Young: Nach-Bilder , 2002, p. 65
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levinthal, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |