Photographer David Levinthal created this wild, wild western photo feature, which is now a part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum photography collection. 
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Photographer David Levinthal created this wild, wild western photo feature, which is now a part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum photography collection.
David Levinthal, born in San Francisco in 1949, has been working with toy figures and tableaux as the subject matter for his artwork since 1972. After graduating from the Yale University School of Art in 1973, he collaborated with his classmate Garry Trudeau on the book Hitler Moves East, which was originally published in 1977. This book, which re-created the Eastern Front in World War II using toy figures and models, has been credited with being one of the earliest examples of post-modern photography books, setting the stage for many other artists who began to use tableaux in their works.
Source: National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM). (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996).
Pictured: David Levinthal (born 1949), Untitled,from the series "Cowboys and Western Landscapes",1988, Polaroid Polacolor ER print, 31 1/2 x 22 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase.