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Girlfriend!: The Barbie Sessions by David Levinthal
11/13/1999 - 1/16/2000
This exhibition is generously underwritten in part through the
corporate sponsorship of SunTrust and The Dr. Henry and Lois Foster
Endowment for the Exhibition of Contemporary Art.
ON THE OCCASION of her 40th birthday, the acclaimed photographer,
David Levinthal, has created a striking series of large-format,
color-saturated Polaroid photographs depicting, perhaps, the most
famous toy icon of post-war American Pop culture. Girlfriend!: The
Barbie Sessions is organized and circulated by the San Jose Museum
of Art, San Jose, California, and will be on view at the Norton
Museum of Art from November 13, 1999 to January 16, 2000.
Since 1972, David Levinthal has photographed dolls and toys in
settings that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, while
tackling such controversial subjects as the Holocaust and racism.
The work is informed by a wide variety of nostalgic imagery,
including such diverse inspirations as the campy TV shows of the
1950s and the documentary photographs of World War II found in
vintage issues of Life magazine.
Girlfriend!: The Barbie Sessions presents Levinthal's most recent
series of photographs in which he has turned his camera towards the
Barbie doll. The many faces of Barbie from 1959 through the 1970s
are presented in this visually stunning exhibition, which includes
approximately 35 - 40 20 x 24 inch Polaroid photographs, revealing
her many incarnations from the fun-loving girl on the beach to the
cool and glamorous seductress.
David Levinthal has been the recipient of fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation. He has also had one-person exhibitions at the
International Center for Photography, New York; Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington D.C.; and numerous other museums and galleries. His
work is included in the permanent collections of many museums
including: Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum; High Museum,
Atlanta, Georgia; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Norton
Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida and the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York.
Girlfriend!: The Barbie Sessions by David Levinthal will have
tremendous audience appeal and run concurrently with the much
anticipated and equally popular Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon
Parks.
The BARBIE trademark and
associated trademarks and copyrights are owned by Mattel Inc. and
used under license. All rights reserved. David Levinthal is not
associated with Mattel Inc.
Images provided by San Jose Museum of Art
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