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David Levinthal

Bonnie and Clyde

archival pigment print, 30” x 40”, edition #1/5

$ 12,900

ABOUT THE ARTIST

DAVID LEVINTHAL is a master of American modern photography. His photographs can be found in over 40 museums around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; the International Center of Photography, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Polaroid Collection, MA. His work also been exhibited in the San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain; Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany; and the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland, among others

The Wild West series, begun in 1986 is inspired by the romance and grandeur of 1950’s Western television and film; these extraordinary photographs encapsulate the American pioneer spirit of the Old West.  The Wild West Series is shot with a Polaroid 20x24 Land Camera, one of five constructed in 1977-78. In the images, 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 to create an illusion of reality and motion. The hazy illusions illustrate the blur of fact, fiction and perception surrounding the cultural myths of the American West.

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