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David Levinthal: miniature photographer
« on: January 21, 2021, 11:13:32 PM »
The other day I was watching a short documentary about photographer David Levinthal.
He photographs miniature figurines using various cameras. He uses mainly a Rollei SL66 and the massive Polaroid 20x24!
He lights the figurines using small mirrors and uses out of focus areas to add interest to the images. Quite interesting.

He has a nice portfolio on his website.
http://davidlevinthal.com/

BTW, a few galleries are not exactly safe for work.
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Re: David Levinthal: miniature photographer
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2021, 05:23:49 PM »
BTW, a few galleries are not exactly safe for work.

BTW, some of the images are from some sick minded person.
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Re: David Levinthal: miniature photographer
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2021, 08:25:27 PM »
Looks like someone being deliberately provocative and then excusing it as art.
Doesn't really do it for me... I find Andrew Sanderson's still lifes and close-ups far more appealing.
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Re: David Levinthal: miniature photographer
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2021, 09:09:34 PM »
I know it takes all kinds.
While some of his pictures are definitely not to everyone's taste, in the documentary I saw he came-out as a genuinely nice person.
He was working on his baseball series when the cameras were at his studio shooting pictures of Jackie Robinson and obsessing about where to put the focus point.

This is a case of love the artist hate the work.
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Re: David Levinthal: miniature photographer
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2021, 05:02:12 PM »
Wow, he is a master in finding the figurines (XXX) and how to light them (Space 2007).

When did Polaroid stop production?  I see he still using it as late as 2007.
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Re: David Levinthal: miniature photographer
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2021, 09:27:41 PM »
I think the doc I saw was done in 2018 or 2019.
From time to time you hear that somebody has found either film or pods for those cameras but those days are quickly coming to an end.

Since he was shooting both the tests and the final edition of about 10 pictures on the film, I calculated that he probably burns through 5000$ a day just in film!
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