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Doll Parts
photography by David Levinthal

Here's how David Levinthal works: He picks out a model kit from Village Comics on Bleeker Street in New York. Because building these twelve-inch-tall, incredibly detailed doll-sculptures requires a tremendous amount of skill that he admits he doesn't possess, Levinthal sends them to a few model makers he's come to know and trust who in turn know and get his artistic aesthetic. Perhaps he'll say, "Lose the sword, get rid of the helmet," but for the most part he lets them work their Geppetto magic. When they're finished, he buys the dolls back and shoots them on Polaroid Polacolor ER Land Film. The results are lush, 20x24-inch images whose soft focus and fuzziness are literal reflections of the figurative lines he blurs between fantasy and reality. That might sound cliché if not for the fact that with Levinthal's twenty-six years worth of cowboys and Indians, World War II soldiers and, now, pin-up girls, it's all fantasy. The fact that we sometimes can't tell is his point — and it may just be our problem . . .
 
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