Press Release - David Levinthal: From the Valley of the Dolls 1985-2001

The Daniel Azoulay Gallery is pleased to bring From the Valley of the Dolls, 1985 -2001, photographs by David Levinthal to Miami. We are proud to be the first in South Florida to put together a major retrospective of David Levinthal's body of work. The exhibition spans the past 15 years of his career and includes images from several of his critically acclaimed series including: Barbie, a documentary on the American toy icon, Barbie, Wild West, Modern Romance, and the provocative XXX

Since working towards his MFS at Yale in the early 70's, David Levinthal has created lifelike scenarios using toys as his subjects capturing them with a 20 x 24 inch Polaroid camera. His first book, Hitler Moves East (1977), published in collaboration with writer Garry Trudeau, depicts the German invasion of the Soviet Union using toy soldiers. This seminal body of work influenced many artists in the 1980's who began to explore artifice and reality in contemporary photography.

As one of the most important artists of his generation, David Levinthal's exhibition From the Valley of the Dolls, opens on November 30th, 2002 continues through February 8, 2003 at the Daniel Azoulay Gallery. An abbreviated list of museums in which David Levinthal's work is included in the permanent collections are The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The High Museum of Art.

David Levinthal