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Baseball
Baseball has long been intertwined with myth, beginning with its fabled origin story of Civil War general Abner Doubleday inventing the game in Cooperstown, New York. It is a game of statistics -- neatly symbolized by the box score -- but also a game of memory and emotion that grows grander and less tangible with time. For many, the historical fictions that surround the sport become as real as the pitcher's mound. Levinthal's Baseball series embraces this blurring of fact and fiction by depicting legends of the game -- the players and the plays -- with minimal detail and definition. Using shadow play and selective focus, Levinthal gives just enough information to identify his subjects but leaves us to complete the story. In doing so, Levinthal invites nostalgic reveries perhaps as hazy as the photographs themselves. |