David Levinthal: Modern Romance
by: Parry, Eugenia

Hardcover. Los Angeles, St. Ann's Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 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. He 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.