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Continued excitement for Builder Levy. Currently he is included in the photography exhibition "WOMEN and the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT" at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia! To Learn More About the Exhibition Click Here  Builder Levy, "March on Washington," 1963.
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Photographer Builder Levy, whose work was featured in the Flomenhaft Gallery photography show "East Meets West" March 3 - April 16, 2016, was written about in the Charleston Gazette-Mail! Builder Levy, "Coal Camp" "Builder Levy Talks 40 Years Photographing Appalachian Coalfields" by Anna Patrick "Using several cameras, including a cumbersome 5x7 Deardorff view camera, he’d engage with miners sitting outside waiting on their shift to begin as he set up his old-time-looking camera to take a photo of them. He entered underground mines, took portraits of miners’ widows, and was welcomed into family homes and onto their porches. He got to know the region, befriended miners, union members and activists. He grew close to the region’s heritage and became knowledgeable of its history. Today, he sounds like a labor historian as he recalls where a miner’s strike occurred, what happened there and the event’s resulting legacy. When it comes to coal, he knows the history better than most kids growing up in the Mountain State today." To Read The Full Article Click Here
Flomenhaft Gallery's Photography Show "East Meets West" reviewed by the Wall Street Journal!5/11/2016  Neil Folberg. "Sagittarius"  by William Meyers
April 1, 2016 "Neil Folberg and Builder Levy are very different photographers, and not just because all of Mr. Levy's pictures are in black-and-white and much of Mr.Folberg's work is in color... The exhibition includes Mr. Levy's individuated portraits from Mongolia, India, Bolivia, and Tanzania, as well as from the coal mines of Kentucky and from Harlem and Brooklyn streets. Mr. Folberg's color landscapes are complemented by five black-and-white prints from "Celestial Nights," his technically accomplished images of starry skies over ancient sites." To Read The Full Article Click Here Builder Levy: Appalachia USAOn View July 10 - September 13, 2015 The Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota, Florida  "Nimrod Workman," Chattaroy, Mingo County, West Virginia, 1972, Hand Printed and Toned, Edition of 1, Gold Toned and Gelatin Silver Print, 14 x 11 inches, framed 24 x 20 inches To learm more about Builder Levy and his work with Applachia USA, please read this beautiful article written for "On View Magazine."
Click Here. Praise Continues for Builder Levy's New Book, "Appalachia USA," in The New York Times Blog "Lens"2/7/2014 In his article, "Choosing Sides and a Camera," David Gonzalez writes of Builder Levy saying: "Builder Levy grew up thinking the world could be - had to be - a better place... During his photographic career, ...he has shown himself to be squarely in the tradition of social documentary photographers whose pictures make you think, feel and maybe even take action." Builder is quoted expressing: "I always wanted to show people's struggles, and I wanted to show people with humanity, dignity, culture, and heritage that others might not know about. You want to go beyond the superficial and the stereotype."  In Vanity Fair's February 2014 edition they write: "Builder Levy's Appalachia USA (David R. Godine) does for today's coal miners what Walker Evans did for sharecroppers and tenant farmers in the Dust Bowl."  Appalachia USA This book is an intense artistic exploration of a significant yet little understood and often overlooked region of the United States. Intertwining the traditions of fine art, social documentary, and street photography, Appalachia USA is an aesthetically and socially important book that celebrates the human spirit; it is this spirit that shines through the coal dust in the faces of miners, in mothers struggling to protect their children, and in ravaged but resilient communities. Buy the book here! To read a review by Paul J. Nyden in the Saturday Gazette-Mail CLICK HERE.
 A Review for Builder in October 2012, ARTnews "This exquisite show provided glimpses of the beauty Builder Levy has been discovering in remote places across the globe since 1997. Intimate portraits and distant landscapes were among the gold-toned gelatin silver prints on view, all printed by the artist employing the meticulous technique he learned directly from Paul Strand." Click HERE to Read the Review. |
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