- Term
David Levinthal
- Alternate Term
Levinthal, David
- Occupation/Role
photographer
- Nationality/Ethnicity
American
- Remarks
David Levinthal was born in 1949 in San Francisco, California. He received a Scientiæ Magister in Management Science from the MIT Sloan School of Management (1981), an MFA in Photography from Yale University (1973), and a BA in Studio Art from Stanford University (1970). He was also the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1990-199. Levinthal lives and works in New York. As a boy, David Levinthal was fascinated by Western films and the movie cowboys that raced across the screen: I grew up in the 1950s. I loved cowboys as a young child ... The first really successful piece was the cowboy with a lasso on a white horse. I shot it and I thought: This is exactly what I want to do. It captures my feelings about it. Using plastic toys to evoke his childhood experience of the West and the fantasy of films, Levinthal's images blur the distinction between reality and fiction.