Date: 1975-1977
Title: Hitler Moves East
This photo displays troops on the move replaying WWI when Hitler moves East on his rise in Europe. David Levinhal reenacts the war scene with little toy action figures which looks like actual people. The Black and white also brings out how real the photograph looks and David also takes all of his photographs with shallow depth of field. In my opinion it is pretty awesome that he could make these little toy figures look so real and create images that could fool someone who did not know about his work. He also uses dramatic lighting to bring the image to life and also portrays movement with small toy figures.
I enjoy his work and i think its pretty cool that he could use small toy figures to create every series of his work. I also enjoyed this series because of the black and white that he uses to resemble the time of WWI and the reenactment of these troops.
This photo does look real. I like how the image is slightly gritty, it makes it feel that it could be a real photograph from that time period.
ReplyDeleteWhen I searched the photos taken by David Levinthal, I like his idea about taking photos of small toys as well. He can create any environments he wants to by using these small toys. I used to play this small toys when I was around 10 with my friends. It was a fun memory.
ReplyDeleteWow- Very interesting- It does look realistic, So did he use GI Joe toy figures. Either way it turn out awesome
ReplyDeleteWW2 is one of my favorite historical periods to read up on. This is neat. It looks really real. I'd really like to start taking macro pictures like this.
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