Contemporary Photographs
Contemporary Photographs
The Ginny Williams Collection
DAVID LEVINTHAL | SELECTED IMAGES (FROM THE WILD WEST)
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October 1, 02:36 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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The Ginny Williams Collection
DAVID LEVINTHAL
B. 1949
SELECTED IMAGES (FROM THE WILD WEST)
a group of 4 Cibachrome prints comprising Hatchet, Man on Horse with Rifle, Man with Lasso, and Duel, each signed, dated, and editioned '6/10' in ink on the reverse, framed, 1988 (4)
each image: 23 by 19 in. (58.4 by 48.3 cm.)
each framed: 25¼ by 21¼ in. (64.1 by 54 cm.)
Dark Light: David Levinthal Photographs 1984-1994 (London, 1994), unpaginated
cf. David Levinthal: Work from 1975-1996 (New York: The International Center of Photography, 1997), pp. 107-27
In an interview with arts critic Richard B. Woodward, David Levinthal commented: 'I was born in 1949 and I'm part of that generation that grew up with television as more than just a novelty. It was omnipresent. . . I think my "Wild West" series reflects the pervasiveness of the Western myth during that time on television. . . It was from Saturday afternoon television. During the '50s, half of the top-rated shows were Westerns. They still had serials in those days. Or look at the toys in Sears catalogs from the '50s, with page after page of holster sets--Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, and the generic ones. The television culture was very important to me' (quoted in David Levinthal: Work from 1975-1996, p. 106).