Levinthal David Roger Rosenblatt James (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies (this being #76/100), signed by Levinthal, in a clamshell box, with an original silver dye bleach print (dye destruction print, Cibachrome) by the artist (paper size 10 x 8 inches; image size 9-7/8 x 7-7/8 inches), also numbered and signed by Levinthal. Hardcover.Texts by cartoonist Garry Trudeau, essayist Roger Rosenblatt, and Holocaust historian James Young. From the publisher: "Since his first publication in 1977, Hitler Moves East, photographer David Levinthal has explored a panoply of compelling issues in representation. Using toy soldiers, dolls, and other figurines, Levinthal, in Mein Kampf has created dramatic tableaux which engage the narrative of Hitler's rise to power and the Nazi campaign to wipe out the Jews and other marginal groups of people. Although miniature in scale, Levinthal's Storm Troopers, concentration camps guards and Hitler's complicit phalanx assume monumental proportions photographed with the Polaroid 20 x 24" studio camera. Shot against flaming red skies, and cold, steel-blue interiors, the spectacle of military pageantry and the senseless slaughter of men, women, and children converge in a disturbing critique of collective memory." Book and Print condition: New. Clamshell box condition: Fine ++. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies (this being #44/100), signed by Levinthal, in a clamshell box, with an original silver dye bleach print (dye destruction print, Cibachrome) by the artist (paper size 10 x 8 inches; image size 9-7/8 x 7-7/8 inches), also numbered and signed by Levinthal. Hardcover. Cloth, with tipped-in plate and debossed title on spine, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by David Levinthal. Texts by cartoonist Garry Trudeau, essayist Roger Rosenblatt, and Holocaust historian James Young. 88 pp. with 59 four-color plates. 13-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches. New in publisher's original packaging (book, print and clamshell box all in flawless, pristine condition). From the publisher: "Since his first publication in 1977, Hitler Moves East, photographer David Levinthal has explored a panoply of compelling issues in representation. Using toy soldiers, dolls, and other figurines, Levinthal, in Mein Kampf has created dramatic tableaux which engage the narrative of Hitler's rise to power and the Nazi campaign to wipe out the Jews and other marginal groups of people. Although miniature in scale, Levinthal's Storm Troopers, concentration camps guards and Hitler's complicit phalanx assume monumental proportions photographed with the Polaroid 20 x 24" studio camera. Shot against flaming red skies, and cold, steel-blue interiors, the spectacle of military pageantry and the senseless slaughter of men, women, and children converge in a disturbing critique of collective memory." Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Limited edition. 10/100. Signed by author on title and limitation page. Folio. 87 (1)pp. Original black cloth with original color photograph laid to cover, red lettering on spine, housed in original black cloth clamshell box with red lettering on spine and original cibachrome print in matted stiff black paper portfolio laid in. Red endpapers. "Beautiful Hitler. Let that phrase repeat itself in the mind for a while, and you begin to understand how dangerous and upsetting it can be - and how risky an undertaking is David Levinthal's Mein Kampf. On a surface level there is no contest between the "beauties" in this series. The Jewish victims are stripped, shot, piled, hauled into pits like meat. The figures are a mass, softened and desintegrated in the showers and the crematorium. Where they have visual clarity, it is cheaply erotic, a peep show of mass murder." (Rosenblatt). Fine in publisher's shrink wrap.