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Toy Story

David Levinthal photographs 4-inch toys in poses that are disturbingly real. His work, displayed in more than three dozen museums, generates anxiety and provokes debate.


Story by Blake Hallanan
Photography by David Levinthal

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Toy Story

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Wild West


Blackface


Hitler Moves East


Mein Kampf


Modern Romance


Barbie Millicent Roberts

THE NIGHTMARE: For the 1994 series Mein Kampf, Levinthal bought many of his figures from a German supplier who had original molds from the 1930s. Levinthal says he started with “Leni Riefenstahl-type settings” and ended with “holocaust imagery.”