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Artist: David Levinthal
Untitled from Barbie (Ballgowns, BAR 38)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
DAVID LEVTINTHAL was born in San Francisco and received his MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Whit...
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1990s David Levinthal Art
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Polaroid
Untitled from Barbie (Blue Ladies, BAR 62)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
DAVID LEVTINTHAL was born in San Francisco and received his MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Whit...
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1990s David Levinthal Art
Materials
Polaroid
Untitled from American Beauties (Red Swimsuit, AB 26)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
DAVID LEVTINTHAL was born in San Francisco and received his MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Whit...
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1980s David Levinthal Art
Materials
Polaroid
Untitled from Wild West (89-PC-C-8)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
DAVID LEVTINTHAL was born in San Francisco and received his MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Whit...
Category
1980s David Levinthal Art
Materials
Polaroid
Untitled from Wild West (94-PC-C-17)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
DAVID LEVTINTHAL was born in San Francisco and received his MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Whit...
Category
1980s David Levinthal Art
Materials
Polaroid
Untitled from America Beauties (Sun Bather, AB 16)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
DAVID LEVTINTHAL was born in San Francisco and received his MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Whit...
Category
1990s David Levinthal Art
Materials
Polaroid
Untitled from America Beauties (Hula Girl, AB 12)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
DAVID LEVTINTHAL was born in San Francisco and received his MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Whit...
Category
1980s David Levinthal Art
Materials
Polaroid
Large Format Polaroid Photograph Color Photo David Levinthal Black Americana Art
By David Levinthal
Located in Surfside, FL
David Levinthal
Title: Untitled
Edition: 2/5
Hand signed, numbered and dated in ink on recto Date: 1997
Original Polaroid Large Format Print (Photo-Internal dye diffusion transfer)
Location: Cambridge Massachusetts United States
Dimensions: Image: 28 X 22 in. Framed: 36 X 30 inches
This depicts a still life of African American Blackface iron toys from his provocative, controversial photo series.
This body of work is drawn from David Levinthal’s project Blackface, dating from 1995-1998, it featured blackface Polaroids of his original memorabilia, drawn from the artist’s African American Americana personal collection, that are the Polaroid’s subject matter. Levinthal’s collection of black memorabilia evolved into Blackface, a stimulating and controversial body of work. The title, according to Levinthal, “makes reference to the many facades, poise and physicality of these figures.” The title is also taken from the name of a journal of a black film-making company and is a term referring to both blacks and whites. Traditionally associated with minstrel, these images were used to perpetuate negative stereotypes. Levinthal’s work was originally intended to be exhibited at Philadelphia’s ICA in 1997. However, the show was cancelled when it became a cause célèbre as a result of its controversial subject-matter. Subsequently, images from the series were exhibited at the International Center of Photography and at Janet Borden, Inc. in New York.
Levinthal’s initial inspiration for Blackface was D.W.Griffith’s 1915 film “Birth of a Nation,” a groundbreaking film of its time and a watershed moment in the cultural wars. It’s extreme and racist depictions of African Americans fueled a debate over the efficacy and motivation of using racially charged images that continues to reverberate in our culture today. Levinthal’s Blackface was originally intended to be a series based on “Birth of a Nation,” but the focus of the work shifted to the inscription of racially charged identities – what these collectibles convey, how they function within society, and how they continue to polarize social attitudes – within material objects produced and packaged as consumer goods.
Levinthal works using a 20 x 24 inch Polaroid Polacolor ER Land Film which results in a large format Polaroid...
Category
1990s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Color, Polaroid
Untitled, from the series Barbie (BAR-43)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since the early 1970’s, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that explore the fantasies, myths and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled from the series American Beauties (AB-16)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since the early 1970’s, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that explore the fantasies, myths and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
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Archival Pigment
Untitled, from the series Space (S-36)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since the early 1970’s, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that explore the fantasies, myths and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled from the series American Beauties (AB-12)
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since the early 1970’s, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that explore the fantasies, myths and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled (from the "Wild West" series)
By David Levinthal
Located in New York, NY
Cibachrome print (Edition of 25)
Signed and numbered, verso
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes matting and framing.
American photographer David Levinthal re-stages historical events using toy...
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1980s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Color
Untitled from the series American Beauties
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since the early 1970’s, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that explore the fantasies, myths and e...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wild West, 89-PC-C-38, #5/5
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since 1972, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that force us to question their apparent innocence....
Category
1980s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Polaroid
Baseball, 04-PC-BB-89, #1/5
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since 1972, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that force us to question their apparent innocence. The Baseball...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Polaroid
Lone Ranger
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
Archival pigment print. David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since 1972, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that force us to question ...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Westerners, High Noon
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
Archival pigment print. David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since 1972, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that force us to question their apparent innocence. The images are inspired by the romance and grandeur of 1950’s Western television and film. In composing the photographs, Levinthal arranges figurines into stereotypical poses to portray the rugged individualism of the Western hero. The blurred photographs, rich in color, use the iconic toy figurines...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wild West 89-PC-C-33, AP
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since 1972, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that force us to question their apparent innocence....
Category
1980s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Polaroid
Westerners, The Saloon
By David Levinthal
Located in Park City, UT
Archival pigment print. David Levinthal is a central figure in American postmodern photography. Since 1972, he has photographed dolls and toys in settings that force us to question their apparent innocence. The images are inspired by the romance and grandeur of 1950’s Western television and film. In composing the photographs, Levinthal arranges figurines into stereotypical poses to portray the rugged individualism of the Western hero. The blurred photographs, rich in color, use the iconic toy figurines...
Category
2010s Contemporary David Levinthal Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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